From: ehsnet!f15.n233.z1.fidonet.org!SKYDIVE (SKYDIVE)
Subject: Bungee ban/ sport questio
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Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 09:28:08 GMT

Reply-to: Jody.Coffey@p0.f1.n3607.z1.fidonet.org (Jody Coffey)
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-> From  romulus!ra.oc.com!news
-> From: romulus!everest.Stanford.EDU!eap (Eric Perozziello)
-> To:   ehsnet!skydive
-> Date: Tue, 10 Nov 92 19:26:52 GMT
->
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->         TRENTON, N.J. (UPI) -- New Jersey's labor commissioner said M
-> is considering a total ban on commercial bungee operations in the sta
->         Operators who testified at a regional hearing on the amusemen
-> defended their rides as safe. But some called for government regulati
-> and inspection, saying they do not want the business to get a bad
-> reputation.
->         Labor Commissioner Raymond Bramucci, who chaired the hearing,
-> must decide what, if any, regulations will make the rides safer, addi
-> that a ban is still an option.
->         Bungee operators charge around $50 to thrill-seekers who jump
-> tower or crane, their fall broken by an elastic cord. At least 11 bun
-> deaths have been reported worldwide.
->         Because the sport is so new, it is relatively unregulated. In
-> Jersey, for example, it is governed only by the regulations for
-> amusement park rides.
->         New Jersey did shut down all bungee jumps briefly during the
-> after a Delaware nurse was severely injured on a jump in North Wildwo
-> a crane toppled over during a high wind in Wildwood and a bridal coup
-> in Atlantic City held an unauthorized double jump as part of their
-> wedding. Most rides were allowed to reopen after inspections.
->         The most dramatic testimony came from a doctor who treated th
-> She broke her spinal cord when she landed on a protective airbag, aft
-> jumping on a bungee cord that was too long for her weight.
->         ``When you hit your head like that, forgive the word, but it
-> splat,'' said Dr. Maurice Davidson. ``Why her brains were not all ove
-> the ground, I don't know.''
->         Without the airbag, his patient would have been dead, Davidso
->         Operators were divided on whether bungee jumping is a sport,
-> participants knowingly taking the same kind of risks they would take
-> jumping by parachute or ballooning, or an amusement park ride. Davids
-> who has embarked on a study of bungee injuries, said jumpers have no
-> control over the situation once they take off.
->
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As a bungee jumper,I must say that I KNOW what I am doing when I
get onto that crane and jump.
There was a time that skydiving was considered dangerous,and or even
crazy,so I geuss what I an trying to say that with time this to will
become accepted and given rules to follow by.(But how hard is it to take
a ride up on something and jump?)
So I geuss the best thing for us to do is hope these idots will some day
get a life and either praticapte in these thing or leave them alone.


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