Originally posted by yo its meWe have some quaries in my area. There is a 60+ foot jump, I did it ONCE. I plugged my nose, and the impact forced my hand up my face and rolled my eyelids back up over my brows.
Very dangerous!! So why do they do it? 🙄
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/southern_counties/5114514.stm
There WAS a guy who used to do swan and sailor dives. He was always there. Next year he was no longer there, and I was told he broke his neck trying to dive from a tree hanging over the edge another 20 or so feet up.
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The post that was quoted here has been removedDrinking bleach in dangeruos but it's not done for fun. Jumping off Beachy Head is done usally because it's fatal, some of these people are jumping similar distances for the fun of it. It's rediculas.
Maybe they don't have the imigination to find safer fun?
Originally posted by yo its meIf it's the risk they are attracted to, safer fun wouldn't provide that thrill. The thrill is that there's a chance that they might die or be severely injured. It's not their goal to die or be severely injured. So they also wouldn't choose an activity that always or almost always leads to such a result.
Drinking bleach in dangeruos but it's not done for fun. Jumping off Beachy Head is done usally because it's fatal, some of these people are jumping similar distances for the fun of it. It's rediculas.
Maybe they don't have the imigination to find safer fun?
I am not attracted to this kind of thing at all, but I do know the thrill of doing something that you know could have negative consequences, and I think most people do (you can see it a lot in children's play).These people may have a higher need for this thrill, or maybe for them this feeling just isn't triggered unless the risk is very high.
I kinda know the feeling. Heights has always been fascinating to me and doing something where there is even a remote chance of death or severe injury just increases the thrill.
It's not something easily explained.
Bungee jumping, absailing, jumping off cliffs, sky diving - it's all great fun for me.
We lived on a cement plant with a 45m silo and when my brother and I were younger I used to freak him out by swinging out over the edge, holding onto an I beam.
The Uvongo lagoon (http://www.warthog.co.za/dedt/tourism/scoast/pix/uvongo.jpg) has some nice 15m+ jumps into the lagoon.
All fun and games, big thrills, but I can't tell you why I did them. I've stopped doing most of these, because I have a family to think of now, but I will still bungee, sky dive etc.
