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So it’s off to Phuket as the London Daily Mail requests ‘colour’ for the story it is going to publish about British student Rishi Bavjeva, who took a flying leap this summer attached to a bungy cord – and never came up again.
The Phuket Bungy jump has been promoting its 100 per cent safety record heavily but Bavjeva suffered a ruptured spleen, torn liver, collapsed lungs, and severe bruising, after become detached from the cord.
Bungy manager Terry Pearce told Phuketwan: ”We’ve had 140,000 jumps here over 17-and-a-half years,” he said. ”And this is the only one that went wrong.”
He has watched the video more than once, and in agonising slow-motion, reported the Phuket website.
”The guy didn’t listen to the jumpmasters,” Mr Pearce said. ”He went feet-first and his knees go up. He was young enough and strong enough to kick his way free.
”We’ve changed a couple of things since. The leg-wrapping we now use grips like hell. I’ve tried it myself.”
Well that’s nice to know. Maybe they should just attach pensioners to these bungy cords.
I mean their site advertises the following:
Well we all saw the video and I saw no evidence of him trying to kick himself free. I just saw a guy take a massive high dive.
Anyway despite the fact that Phuket Bungy claims it is fully insured Rishi is not going to bother to sue or claim.
Now back to last week when Andy Chant went to do some back up and scene setting pictures for the Daily Mail.
Seems it was not a good time to go! The US Navy was in port in strength and the new sport is of course ‘Naked Bungy jumping’.
weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
Well why do anything clothed when you can do it naked?
Poor old photo-journalist Andy Chant had to sit around for hours photographing little more than flying bollocks.
He also reported that the people actually fitting the punters into their feet harnesses were also all local.
Look just let me hold my B*****ks
Look, they are probably fine, but with Thailand’s safety record its bound to make some people uneasy.
“I thought the idea was that you just touched the water before the cord pulled you back up again,” said Andy.
I guess so. They do advertise ’water touch’ as opposed to ‘kamikaze’.
Apparently not. “Some guys went right under”.
‘Meat and two veg and all’, as they say in the sarf London resort of Patt-ay-ya, all hitting the water with a giant thwack!
I've got them all tucked up nicely this time
“despite the fact that Phuket Bungy claims it is fully insured Rishi is not going to bother to sue.”
This is a non sequitur. Rishi doesn’t have to sue to be compensated by Phuket Bungee’s insurance. He only has to make a claim for his damages; then the insurer will investigate, and if they conclude it was PB’s negligence, they’ll pay Rishi’s claim. If they don’t so conclude, he can then opt to sue or not.
Well it looks like they’ve removed the “100% safety record” claim now.
Rishi is an idiot. I doubt they didn’t give him any instructions. The only instructions are about 5 seconds long but he paid heed to the instructions this wouldn’t have happened. Hold you arms out, look straight ahead, and fall off; don’t jump off. Pretty easy instructions when i did this in Macau. In the msnbc news article, he says my friends to it all the time and they said you can jump any way you want. Are his friends experts or have they only done it a few times? They are obviously don’t what they are talking about. Yes if you have the type of harness that goes around your body you can do whatever you want. But this jump was the type where it was strapped to your legs. Doesn’t take much else but common sense to figure out what to do. This is a bit of an extreme sport which obviously is dangerous. Maybe a 5 second research on google you would know what to do and how to jump correctly. I have no sympathy for Rishi and he got what he deserved.
I have spent a 15 mins on google and can’t find any how to or training sites that tell you how actually to bungyjump. I did find one site however which reported that of all bungy accident 99.9 per cent are caused by the faulty fitting of the bungy.
This adds a completely new dimension to the expression ’swinging dick’
Why do they persist in cover the mans genitals? It’s not like there’s going to be a stiffy now is there! And we all know what a flacid penis looks like… if you use a magnifying glass!
That was the photographer’s decision. I can live with it