Tired of People with No Ethics

[guest]

Way to go buddy! Good to see that some things never change.

Many months ago you when you jumped at 5 in the afternoon in braod daylight the cops came a blazing.

Then the P-Towers in daylight.

Could you roast sites any hotter?

If you don't get a little more respect for sites a little tar and feather could be coming your way, and this is no joke.

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As we get out of the van and run to the fence in order to drop down onto the catwalk a second time, we have the uneasy feeling of having been watched by a passing vehicle. This could mean trouble, but we're already down here and Chris, who stayed, is excited and ready for another session. We gear up again, everything seems easier and more relaxed the second time around. As I get ready to jump the second time my nerves are a lot calmer. I exit and actually enjoy the fall. I hear the velcro peel on my rig, notice the tuck and finally watch the canopy inflate, straight, right on heading. I again land perfectly and jonas anounces that he's captured everything on tape. Awesome.
JJ has climbed down a ladder to yet a lower exitpoint and as we wave to him that we're ready to tape, he lifts his arms and performs a double gainer, (two backloops) before deploying his canopy comming out of the second turn. He lands and is worried.
"Dude, there is a white truck parked over there by the road. I don't know man, I hope it's not the cops." We quickly stash his chute into the hideabag and debate what to do. We decide on having Jonas walk back to the van since he has no gear and drive up to the top of the bridge where we will meet him. JJ and I grab our stuff and start climbing the steep hill, this time on the other side of the river. Half way up we rest, exhausted from the climb we sit down and contemplate our options.
"Don't worry" I say, "Even if it is the cops, they got nothing on us. We never jumped, no big deal."
"No dude, they're not stupid. They'll see our gear. They can take it and take us to jail. They don't ##### around."
I am not worried, but only because of inexperience. While we're still arguing, a sharp official sounding voice adresses us from the trail. A sherrif is down there, Jonas is with him, handcuffed. The sheriff threatens to call the dogs on us and informs us that a helicopter is on it's way should we refuse to cooperate. Left without an option we comply and on the trail the overweight official searches us and reads us a million charges. Unfortunatly he has mobilized the entire sheriffsdepartement that morning and so there are 7 units waiting, including two parkrangers, a K9 unit and sure enough, a helicopter. Now I am impressed. All that for us? They must be really bored.
The cops are actually pretty friendly and quite impressed. I can almost read respect in their faces, especially after they watch our jumps on video. But since Fatty has called Tom Dick and Harry out, there is no solving this matter quietly. Our gear is being confiscated and we are ordered to appear in court on a later date. We could have gotten arrested but for some reason they let us off easy.

[guest]

Typical

[guest]

OK, I'll pull a Robin Hyde on ya and say, "you whining weasel! Why don't you have the courage to say who you are?"
x(

What can I say? I'm just a BASE jumper who wants to jump! I have no ethics and I have no respect for you and your sites! :o I mean our sites, or the sites that I jump anyway...

[Tree]

Luv your work JJ. Come out East and we can get busted trying to jump anything around DC right now.

Cya,

Tree:7

[guest]

Are you a real tree?:P

[imported_Tom Aiello]

He's sure as tall as one. Us short people can't even see his face from down here...

[guest]

And don't bother coming back to the PNW anytime soon, a$$hole. Show up here, burn our sites with broad daylight jumps - what the fu(k? You too stoopid to respect local sites, or just don't give a $hit?

Show up again around here and I'll kick your self-important little ass myself. We work hard around here to preserve our sites and self-styled BASE heroes like you can rot in hell before you're welcome in the PNW.

Consider Washington and Oregon officially "burned" for your stoner little ass. Show up again and you'll wish you were in jail once we're done with you. I don't give a fu(k who you think you are - you're $hit don't fly up here.

Consider yourself warned.

[guest]

How much of a stupid a*shole do you have to be to attract the attention of an entire sherrifs department while jumping a "discrete" site in broad daylight?

You should have been arrested and locked up with a friendly guy with big hands and no lube.

Too cowardly to jump in the scary dark?

[guest]

Hey JJ I heard you recently did a crane in S.D. I know which one it is but was wondering if you knew how high it was? Did you use a 42in or a 48in?
Would be happy to get this info. Thnx

[guest]

Hey JJ I heard you recently did a crane in S.D. I know which one it is but was wondering if you knew how high it was and if you used a 42in or 48in.
I would greatly appreciate the info. Thanx

[guest]

Fu(k off PNW. You donkey raping sh1t eaters can kiss my ass. I'll jump where and when I want. What are they gonna do, make BASE illegal? Who cares if there's more heat. It just makes it funner.

[guest]

Idiot - what we're gonna do is rip your nuts off if you ever show up here again but wait do you have nuts? I think not, not by how you act. How hard is that to understand?

No intention to kiss your ass (get your boyfriend to do that for you, ok?), though bending you over and letting a pissed off donky make you his love slave might be a nice finale to our treatment of you. You'd probably love it is the only problem.

We don't give a fu(k if you are too dumb to preserve sites in your backyard - that's your problem, and those who live near you. YOU DO NOT LIVE IN THE PNW. Thank BASE for small blessings.

Do not come back here to jump. We will know you are here and we'll take action befitting your idiotic disgregard for local resources. Are those words small enough for you to comprehend?

STAY AWAY! How about that?

PNW posse - watchin' for you

[guest]

What are you sh1t faced co(kmasters gonna do, stake out the airports and bus terminals? Set up web cams at all your precious objects and monitor them 24-7? Your threats are so friggin laughable my tummy hurts. And if by chance you DO happen to run into me at your favorite little wussy cliff or ant., I WILL kick your sorry rain-soaked soggy coffee drinking Starbucks loving grunge rocking asses off the fu(king thing.

I am gonna jump wherever the hell I please. You don't own your friggin objects you retards. I will return to PNW shortly. I will jump in the light of day if the mood strikes me. x(

if you dont like it :'( , tough sh1t>(

f you you drippy cheese dicks :*

[guest]

Posted Dec. 23, 1999:

http://www.blincmagazine.com/cgi-bin...41&forum=board

reposted:

To my fellow BASE Jumpers - I would like to remind you all once again of a long standing tradition which is the single most important method of keeping us out of jail and preventing us from burning objects unnecessarily. This is the "CALL THE LOCAL" rule. This is how it is supposed to work. As long in advance as possible before going to a new city to jump any object, you should make absolutely sure that you contact the most prominent local jumper in the area. That jumper is then honor-bound to help you by either personally taking you or having someone else take you to as many local sites as possible, training you in the accepted method for access on the particular object and partying with you afterwards. This is "THE WAY". There is no other way.
I will give you examples here of incidents where this rule has not been followed and several where it was followed. Remember, nothing's perfect. This is as good as it gets.

CALL THE LOCAL RULE FOLLOWED

I have traveled a great deal and visited many cities in the US and abroad. I always called the local BASE jumper who was acknowledged as being the contact person. I had great experiences. I made life long friends. I jumped some buildings that no one would have imagined possible, even in their wildest dreams. And I partied with some of the greatest people in the World. When I lived in Atlanta, many people called and unless they had inadequate experience they were taken personally to every building and/or crane that was being jumped and given complete lessons on entry, security, landing, winds and traditions. We partied Georgia style and no jumper paid for a motel; they stayed with one of us. In 10 years, no person jumping with me in Atlanta got busted. None of the people that I trained got busted except for one stupid jump in the middle of a parade. The newspapers and TV stations never ran a BASE jumping story about anyone who was jumping with me or any of the people I helped initially who called for updates the next time they came to town. It was the golden days of BASE in the Atlanta area. Many buildings were free for the taking with the benefit of years of careful effort by the locals. This "rule" and the assistance that went with it extended to all the local towers and stacks within a hundred miles as well. Ask Dennis, Brenda, the brothers Rick and Randy,"the ice cream man", John from Oklahoma, several Australians, several Germans, Rob"Broke Leg" Lowry from Canada, Kurt, Brian"the video man" and many, many others about the scene and the hospitality.

Once we had a horizontal crane that by providing a case of Bud each night we arraigned for the operator to leave it extended over a huge(100 yd. Square) empty lot. It was at about 700ft. We were putting a dozen people off it every night that the weather was good. Many people did their first BASE jump from this crane. Many people were preparing to do their first BASE jump from it. The police were busy elsewhere and basically uninterested at the time. It was the coolest scene and the crane was there for five more months.

CALL THE LOCAL RULE NOT FOLLOWED

Then along came John Vincent with his giant ego. He didn't call anyone. He got someone to take him up in the middle of the day so he could do his usual self-aggrandizing video jump. Two people, including the crane operator were fired from their jobs. Vincent got away and sent videos of himself jumping the World Trade Center(hop&pop) and others to the Atlanta news media for TV broadcast. Then he made some smart-ass comment like, what are they going to do, arrest me for stealing altitude? The cops were mad and told to bust us next time. Beers Construction put locks on all their cranes. The first BASE jump students were screwed. The locals were so pissed that they rented a van and drove all the way to New Orleans to"really f**k him up". John Vincent is extremely lucky that I was on the load and came up with the idea to TAR and FEATHER him. Otherwise, he would be without tongue and balls, the original plan.

CALL THE LOCAL RULE FOLLOWED

We had been jumping a South Georgia tower for ten years without incident. We had a key to the elevator and the special sequence to run it. Many people came after calling and were taken to the tower. Some that I really trusted, like Bob Neeley, were given keys so they only needed to call to get the "hot or not" report and they were on their own with our blessing. We sometimes did ten jumps in one night from that tower.

CALL THE LOCAL RULE NOT FOLLOWED

Two very well known BASE jumpers from Florida drove their van inside the tower compound and got busted trying to get the elevator to work. If they had called, we would have boogied all night long.

I could go on and on with these examples and I am sure that many of you could as well. Many sites have been ruined for this reason. When will we ever learn ?

Earl Redfern

[guest]

JJ, You simple minded twit.

"...It just makes it funner. "

...makes it more fun; would be the proper way to iterate your simplistic rant.

It seem that you are as ignorant as you claim to be.


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