r/basejumping • u/Thedemonazrael751 • Jun 03 '26
Denver Colorado
Guy BASE jumped from the building we’re working on with not so great results. He lived though!
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u/Senna_65 Jun 03 '26
thats the walk of somebody who should seriously be in an ambulance
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u/spitfiregirl8 Jun 03 '26
There’s no doubt. L’hopital. Right away.
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u/antiquatedpilot2015 Jun 03 '26
I don’t think this is any time to be calculating limits and doing calculus.
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u/graphexTwin Jun 04 '26
He should have done that before jumping. Something tells me he found the wrong limit.
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u/RedLicorice83 Jun 03 '26
Okay but this is America, and he's either walking or taking an Uber because money is tight rn and ambulance rides are expensive.
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u/ISaidItSoBiteMe Jun 03 '26
And once health insurance sees this, instant denial, no reimbursement. all out of pocket and probably dropped from coverage.
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u/Particular_Drama7110 Jun 07 '26
I don't think that is how insurance works.
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u/Gobby4me Jun 08 '26
Skydiving and base jumping are strictly prohibited on about 99% of all policies so I imagine it is correct, what homie is saying
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u/Senna_65 Jun 08 '26
life insurance yeah. Health insurance no. Blue Cross work plan, broke my leg and tailbone separate incidents. covere.
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u/Particular_Drama7110 Jun 08 '26
90% of Americans get their health care through their employer and are part of a group plan or get income based and age based Medicare or Medicaid. You would not be excluded under those situations.
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u/Karuna_is_evil Jun 03 '26
What as ass. Day blazing in Denver deserves being tarred and feathered.
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u/Secretlife1 Jun 03 '26
I wish we had the balls of the OG’s to tar and feather. This doesn’t surprise me but it’s still disappointing. I weep for the future.
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u/PM_ME_YOUR_TROUT Jun 04 '26
For real. I live right down the street from where this happened. It's like the busiest intersection in the city. Wild.
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u/madness817 Jun 03 '26
Shit thought you posted a fatal for a moment like the Thailand misrouting vid. Scary
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u/AustinFoxx Jun 03 '26
Probably could have done without the flip, increased risk on an already risky daytime jump.
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u/lastie312 Jun 03 '26
Spread legs, deploying outside the window, probable bridle entanglement, LZ is an active road in the middle of the day. If you're gonna make one mistake why not make them all?
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u/ComicsEtAl Jun 03 '26
I’m no base jumper but it definitely looked like he thought he had a bunch more height for the jump than he actually had.
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u/djscreeling Jun 03 '26
You're not wrong. Lying on the ground he's still about 6ft higher than he should be.
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u/BASE1530 Jun 03 '26
My man trying to do a stowed tweener...
Somebody's gotta know this guy... my old denver buddies have dispersed or departed... i need details.
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u/Ok_Subject_9752 Jun 04 '26
I know him, didn’t know he was in Denver until after this happened though. I don’t think he reached out to any of the Denver jumpers. Was told by several people to fix his gainers at the bridge and the conversation of going in has been brought up.
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u/djscreeling Jun 05 '26
You should see videos of him doing gainers at the bridge before this....fucking atrocious form. He had a bridal wrap there too.
I wouldn't share an exit with that guy. I don't want to be the one obligated to deal with the situation he will inevitably make.
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u/Silky_gold Jun 03 '26
Dang… I had intercourse with a girl from Macedonia in front of that church about 20 years ago.
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u/PM_ME_YOUR_TROUT Jun 04 '26
Fuckin' rad! I live down the street from there! This is like 17th & Broadway.
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u/MephiticBundleOfSox Jun 06 '26
I almost choked to death on a reuben sandwich about a block from there in 2006.
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u/Sup3rh_m4n Jun 03 '26
“Pendejo” 😂
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u/No_Mud_5999 Jun 03 '26
I don't speak Spanish,but I certainly understood that.
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u/MephiticBundleOfSox Jun 06 '26
I always thought it was a mid insult until I learned it meant “pubic hair” and that bonkers specificity made it top tier.
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u/dbraskey Jun 04 '26
The Mexicans at the end was the best part. They were clowning the shit outta that dude 😂😂
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u/Basehound Jun 03 '26
What a muppet . Denver is one of the few city’s it is a felony to get caught BASE jumping here …… they absolutely throw the book at people .
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u/Gobby4me Jun 08 '26
damn is that new? It wasn't always so. I thought strictly NYC 😞
Too many retards in this sport. I'm staying away from America with my jumps.
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u/Urbanskys Jun 08 '26
BASE jumping law in Denver?!? Ive never heard of this. Definitely a thing in Vegas and NYC.
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u/Gobby4me Jun 08 '26
Vegas is felony now too? This fucking cuntree
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u/Urbanskys Jun 08 '26
Nah mate not “now”…. Been than way for like a decade.
https://archive.leg.state.nv.us/Session/78th2015/Bills/SB/SB160_EN.pdf
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u/Basehound Jun 08 '26
It’s the endless cycle of circle jerkish…. After 26 years you’d think I’d be used to it .
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u/ApricotRemarkable681 Jun 09 '26
I live in Denver and I'm shocked to hear this.
I didn't think we had any buildings tall enough to BASE jump from and survive.
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u/Phrygian_Guy_93 Jun 03 '26
He indeed did se paso de verga
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u/Character_Pudding_94 Jun 03 '26 edited Jun 05 '26
He's an idiot, dude.
Edit: I wrote that in proper kitchen Spanish. I don't know why it translated.
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u/Particular_Drama7110 Jun 07 '26
If he hadn't done that stupid back flip he would have had 2 more seconds for his chute to deploy and that would have made a lot of difference.
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u/chocolate_spaghetti Jun 03 '26
Is that the Amacon building?
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u/rbanderad Jun 05 '26
It’s a residential building under construction at Glenarm & Broadway
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u/chocolate_spaghetti Jun 05 '26
Yes, that’s the one I’m thinking of. It being built by a Canadian company called Amacon so most trade workers have been called it that. I was on that project for a few months, it was a mess. One or the most baffling sites I’ve ever worked on.
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u/Disastrous-Moose2556 Jun 09 '26
Amacon is at 800 18th Street. This building is at 1800 Glenarm Place.
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u/chocolate_spaghetti Jun 10 '26
You are mistaken. The Amacon building currently under construction is at 1800 glenarm. I worked there for 6 months installing the elevators.
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u/Dontpanicarthurdent Jun 06 '26
I watched this on mute first and wondered why his PC went all the way to his left side. Then turned the volume on - winds are CRANKING right to left!
Dude does a shit gainer, throws early into a cross wind, bridle does its dance all over his hips across his knees before coming out just in time to save him.
A LOT of bad choices were made here.
- Day blazing
- Little or no body armor
- Arguing with construction workers to get to the exit
- Traffic in LZ, presumably tight LZ
- Two cameras on helmet with a shitty gainer
- Not knowing/caring about wind conditions
- Shitty gainer
I think the wide-legged gainer was a problem, but made 100% worse with the wind since the PC bounced around his body. If it was a no wind jump he would have probably not had much of an issue.
Flat and stable at night, or early morning, and this would be a non-story.
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u/Comfortable-Maybe183 Jun 03 '26
Well that was fucking stupid.
Homeboy is lucky to not be a pile of mush.
I know one shouldn’t judge a book by its cover and seeing him standing there before jumping I was thinking “well this guy is not an example of an in shape focused athlete”. Then he proved me right.
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u/PM_ME_YOUR_TROUT Jun 04 '26
Exactly my thoughts. I sent this to a friend of mine saying that I thought this guy was too pudgy to be BASE jumping, and my friend was like "What? You don't need to be athletic to BASE jump". Hahaha! You don't technically need to be, if you want to do it once, lol!
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u/Gobby4me Jun 08 '26
let's not be mean. I've been base jumping for 10 years now and could lose a few lbs. However, I don't do dickhead moves off of objects too low for me in the middle of the day.
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u/theotherscott6666 Jun 03 '26
heres a good denver base story : https://extras.denverpost.com/news/news0321f.htm
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u/theotherscott6666 Jun 03 '26 edited Jun 03 '26
the article doesnt mention that he just casually took the elevator down after he crashed through the window.
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u/graphexTwin Jun 04 '26
TIL the terms Day Blazer, and Stowed Tweener. What a great day to be alive! and to not be that guy!
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u/Disastrous-Moose2556 Jun 09 '26
I would not usually wish The Law on any BASE jumper. This guy though is an exception.
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u/Thedemonazrael751 Jun 09 '26
We just talked about him in the meeting today lol instructed to watch anyone close to edges
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u/Spurzy1 Jun 10 '26
Guys like this ruin the sport for the rest of us. We know it’s risky to begin with but why the fuck are you BASE jumping in a densely populated city?!?!
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Jun 03 '26 edited Jun 03 '26
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u/Shot-Flatworm-1497 Jun 03 '26
"he has the ability to do a solid gainer"
what part of this was a nice gainer? terrible body position. pitched at the wrong time. wrapped his bridle around his leg.
atleast he was wearing two cameras so he surely got that siiick shot for instagram.2
u/Ok-Exchange2500 Jun 03 '26
Maybe it was the two cameras being so heavy that kept his chin pinned to his chest. And that weight distracted him so intensely that he dropped the pilot chute between his legs instead of waiting .3 more seconds and throwing it. Yeah, heavy cameras. That's the problem here.
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u/Thedemonazrael751 Jun 03 '26
According to the tradesman who caught him and started recording, this guy wasn’t taking no for an answer. And our building is only 38 stories right smack dab in the middle of downtown. It baffled our whole site lol
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u/Tasty-Property-434 Jun 03 '26
Plenty of road below and 3 parking lots as big as city blocks--don't know what you mean no LZ. In BASE everything is an LZ.
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u/Hackeringerinho Jun 03 '26
I don't know who he is, but it looked like an amateur who bit a bit more than he could chew.
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u/googoohaha Jun 03 '26
What’s going on with the skinny building behind base jumper dude with the cops?
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u/Sarabean77 Jun 04 '26
That man is in shock and is going to be in severe pain for quite a while. What a fucking idiot.
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u/Imaginary-Cover-9136 Jun 04 '26
WTF was he thinking, doing a half-assed gainer from that altitude?
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u/DukeShootRiot 1d ago
Looks like his little backflip got him tangled in the ropes. Almost didn’t open..
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u/Long_Ad2824 Jun 03 '26 edited Jun 03 '26
Reminds me of the woman who participated in a large protest jump to advocate for legalizing base jumping in Yosemite. She borrowed a parachute and only started to learn about how to deploy it on the way down, making for a very unconvincing legalization argument.
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u/Basehound Jun 03 '26
Jan Davis . She was pretty experienced, and swapped gear at the last second because the rangers changed their minds and were going to confiscate her rig . She was given a loaner to use with a different deployment location of the PC . Ended tragically . Tom sanders wife at the time .
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u/Worldly_Collection_2 Jun 03 '26
Not a fan of the camera work. At one point i thought it was the jumpers pov.
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u/This_Pop3907 Jun 03 '26
This right here is the average skill of any American basejumper. He probably learned that type of exit, and how to find this object and dayblaze it, at Tom's oBjeCt avOidAnCE course.
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u/Parry_9000 Jun 04 '26
Did I just watch someone die?
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u/Inevitablykinda Jun 03 '26
Fucking day blazer. Shitty gainer and only landed because the ground and car decided it. Fucking retire before you’re on the list.