I would say that 90% of the major injuries and fatalities in BASE jumping, legal or not, involve experienced jumpers pushing there own limits. It seems to me that the best possible solution would be to remove those jumpers destined to impact, from our ranks as quickly as possible.

I have an idea on how we could rid ourselves of this potential threat quickly so we can get to convincing the world that an unsafe sport is really safe. Try to be present when these individual pushers are pushin, and work it. Try things like wow dude you are the king, or man I sure wish I could be like you. How about I wonder if you have the time to teach me that, I'll pay you.

Once the ego of the experienced pusher has been properly inflated try reversing your tactics and accelerating the moment when this individual will push to far. Try things like wow you are starting to jump like a pu$$y. Or, a real man would do a qaud I really thought you were better than that. Or as a last ditch effort, That dude I just saw with 12 jumps did it and totally pulled it off. This type of approach should weed out those individuals whom are bent on killing themselves by living outside there capabilities. Be sure to get video and pictures so we can show them to the athorities and state in a loud athoritive voice "We also saw this behavior as a problem and had this individual under investigation for ______ "(insert some random but not to short an amount of time). We will then accomplish the illusion of separation between our sport and the pancake in question. The pictures will also be good to conduct "Official investigations" We will then have proof that the fatality was once again caused by some totally freak occurance of a free spirited individual pursuing there god given right to fling themselves off of everything high just because they wanted to. Someday we will be rid of these self rightoues totally self serving individuals and the sport will consist of nothing but buracrats that have the greater good of the base jumping society in mind instead of this stupid personal freedom of the individual thing. I figure darwin had the best plan, weed them out.

As long as there is BASE jumping there will be fatalities from BASE jumping. I know of only a couple jumpers with no or really low jump numbers that have died BASE jumping. The bottom line is there is nothing I can do to stop you from killing yourself, and there is nothing you can do to keep me from killing myself. If I restrict your access, you will just show up when I am not there, and vise versa. Sounds like the exact creation we already have everywhere but the perrine. Restriction and regulation has proven itself not to work. The low time jumpers will just show up in the middle of the night when the dirty rotten base police are fast asleep from a long day of long delays and super duper arial stunts out in the hot noon-day sun.

Perhaps instead of trying to appear nothreatening and safe, we should appear to be U.S. citizens(and acceptable foriegn visitors) :P who deserve the right to pursue our passion.

Accept us or not. I will jump either way.

Brian