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BlueWaveNeverEnd

(15,312 posts)
Sat Jun 13, 2026, 10:59 PM Saturday

Bungee jump workers forget to attach rope. Woman dead, 6 arrested

https://www.yahoo.com/news/world/articles/21-old-brazilian-woman-dead-232832680.html?

A 21-year-old woman reportedly died Saturday when staff at a bungee-jumping event pushed her from a bridge without her being strapped to a safety rope, dropping her about 130 feet into a ravine.

The incident occurred on the "Skeleton Bridge" in Limeira, in the state of São Paulo. Six people connected to the event have been taken into custody: five men and one woman.

Maria Eduarda Rodrigues de Freitas was carried onto the platform by two men, then shoved from the edge, according to a video of the fall that surfaced online, as bystanders yelled that she didn't have a rope tied to her and plummeted some 40 meters into a canyon. Medics pronounced her dead at the scene.


Her fiancé, who had also been at the event, was receiving medical treatment after becoming ill on hearing of her death, according to a local news account that tracked rescue operations.

Some organizers reportedly ran from the scene shortly after she fell, and authorities later located two who had fled with the aid of a police helicopter that surveyed a patch of woodland next to the bridge, local station Rpido no Ar reported.
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Bungee jump workers forget to attach rope. Woman dead, 6 arrested (Original Post) BlueWaveNeverEnd Saturday OP
Weird she was carried onto platform & shoved off. SheltieLover Saturday #1
Everything about this is weird MustLoveBeagles Saturday #2
It sure is weird! SheltieLover Saturday #3
Very strange. They should have a triple check process BlueWaveNeverEnd Saturday #4
I don't see them making any attempts to attach her to anything. LisaL Yesterday #20
Same here. niyad Yesterday #5
And her fiance needed medical treatment? nuxvomica Yesterday #8
Sounds like he was in shock Bayard Yesterday #10
Yeah, the police always suspect the spouse or boyfriend first. C Moon Yesterday #12
If circumstances are unknown. LisaL Yesterday #40
How sensitive should you be when your fiance is killed right in front of you? nt CozyMystery Yesterday #14
It's not a detail usually reported nuxvomica Yesterday #16
Really. LisaL Yesterday #39
She wasn't struggling. StarryNite Yesterday #9
Possibly drugged? SheltieLover Yesterday #15
I think she was expecting to have a normal bungee jumping experience. LisaL Yesterday #21
I can't imagine what a "normal bungee jumping experience" might be displacedvermoter Yesterday #28
Don't ask me, you couldn't pay me enough. LisaL Yesterday #29
Seems like I would be checking the connection myself, displacedvermoter Yesterday #30
Considering these people don't appear to have a clue as to what they are supposed to be doing, LisaL Yesterday #33
They toss people to have them swing away from wall/edge BlueWaveNeverEnd Yesterday #42
You are not going to swing if you are not attached to anything. LisaL Yesterday #43
You have one "semi important" FUCKING job to do... Enter stage left Yesterday #6
Fortunately, there was probably very little time between when she realized something was wrong and... LudwigPastorius Yesterday #7
She was pushed, BidenRocks Yesterday #11
On the video, the two men carry her, then throw her off. LisaL Yesterday #19
Watching the video (non-graphic) sarisataka Yesterday #13
How did she not realize there wasn't anything tied to her ankles EdmondDantes_ Yesterday #17
She might not know what is supposed to be done to make it safe and assume LisaL Yesterday #18
Agreed the staff absolutely screwed up EdmondDantes_ Yesterday #26
Sounds like these event workers had no clue how to do it properly. LisaL Yesterday #22
When I was in the service 40 years ago. Jacson6 Yesterday #23
I think it's a little different if you forget to tie off your own rope versus LisaL Yesterday #24
Of course it is. n/t Jacson6 Yesterday #25
Hmm, I was in the service about the same time, and have trouble imagining RandomNumbers Yesterday #38
They had a chief that fouled up. Jacson6 Yesterday #41
You'd think the stupid asshole holding her feet would notice the cord wasn't attached. sop Yesterday #27
This is premeditated murder. NT Celerity Yesterday #31
That's what I'm thinking. Does not add up at all. harumph Yesterday #32
I sincerely doubt it. LisaL Yesterday #34
they need to REALLY talk to, and investigate all involved, including the BF Celerity Yesterday #36
I am not saying they shouldn't investigate, but I don't see this as a murder conspiracy. LisaL Yesterday #37
Holy shit. Baitball Blogger Yesterday #35
Eh...women are disposible GenThePerservering Yesterday #44

LisaL

(47,927 posts)
20. I don't see them making any attempts to attach her to anything.
Sun Jun 14, 2026, 08:52 AM
Yesterday

Did they even have the training on what they were supposed to have been doing? It's like they are expecting her to fly.

nuxvomica

(14,356 posts)
8. And her fiance needed medical treatment?
Sun Jun 14, 2026, 12:54 AM
Yesterday

That sounds pretty suspicious but maybe he is just really sensitive.

C Moon

(13,803 posts)
12. Yeah, the police always suspect the spouse or boyfriend first.
Sun Jun 14, 2026, 01:49 AM
Yesterday

But maybe I watch too much Columbo.

Anyways, that was messed up. Poor lady.

nuxvomica

(14,356 posts)
16. It's not a detail usually reported
Sun Jun 14, 2026, 06:16 AM
Yesterday

The whole story sounds strange like it was written by AI.

LisaL

(47,927 posts)
39. Really.
Sun Jun 14, 2026, 01:53 PM
Yesterday

If your loved one is thrown to their death, what kind of reaction are you going to have?

LisaL

(47,927 posts)
21. I think she was expecting to have a normal bungee jumping experience.
Sun Jun 14, 2026, 08:54 AM
Yesterday

But the men didn't attach her to anything. I don't understand as to WTF were these men expecting her to do. Fly?

displacedvermoter

(5,160 posts)
28. I can't imagine what a "normal bungee jumping experience" might be
Sun Jun 14, 2026, 10:42 AM
Yesterday

as it seems an incredibly abnormal thing to do. Life is dangerous enough as it is.

displacedvermoter

(5,160 posts)
30. Seems like I would be checking the connection myself,
Sun Jun 14, 2026, 11:07 AM
Yesterday

considering what would happen in the event of human error...

LisaL

(47,927 posts)
33. Considering these people don't appear to have a clue as to what they are supposed to be doing,
Sun Jun 14, 2026, 01:32 PM
Yesterday

I am not sure one could survive this bungee jump even if the rope was attached.

LudwigPastorius

(15,192 posts)
7. Fortunately, there was probably very little time between when she realized something was wrong and...
Sun Jun 14, 2026, 12:36 AM
Yesterday

the end.

LisaL

(47,927 posts)
19. On the video, the two men carry her, then throw her off.
Sun Jun 14, 2026, 08:51 AM
Yesterday

She is presumably expecting that she is attached to a rope. But the men do not attach her to anything. WTF were these men thinking?
They threw a woman to her death. Did they think she was going to fly? They had to know they didn't attach her to a rope?

EdmondDantes_

(2,242 posts)
17. How did she not realize there wasn't anything tied to her ankles
Sun Jun 14, 2026, 08:12 AM
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Granted I'm afraid of heights so I'm not bungee jumping, but if I were in her place the staff would have gotten really frustrated with me asking is the band secured, let me see how both ends are secured.

LisaL

(47,927 posts)
18. She might not know what is supposed to be done to make it safe and assume
Sun Jun 14, 2026, 08:49 AM
Yesterday

that people throwing her off the mountain did their job properly. Horrible.

EdmondDantes_

(2,242 posts)
26. Agreed the staff absolutely screwed up
Sun Jun 14, 2026, 09:15 AM
Yesterday

And maybe she was drunk or otherwise inebriated, but I think it's hard otherwise to miss the bungee cord part of a bungee jump. But again there's no chance you'd ever get me to try it, so I'm speaking entirely hypothetically. Maybe she was really nervous.

Either way, the responsibility still lies with the professionals.

LisaL

(47,927 posts)
22. Sounds like these event workers had no clue how to do it properly.
Sun Jun 14, 2026, 08:58 AM
Yesterday

So they threw a young woman to her death.

"It was a team there that wasn't regulated; they didn't even have authorization to be there,” Delegate Andrea Dantas Levy reportedly told the outlet. “They ended up organizing this event, and," he contended, "this fatality happened today, in my perception, due to a failure to verify and supervise the placement of the rope on the victim's jump.”
https://people.com/woman-plummets-to-her-death-bungee-jump-staff-allegedly-forgot-safety-cord-11997684

Jacson6

(2,294 posts)
23. When I was in the service 40 years ago.
Sun Jun 14, 2026, 09:10 AM
Yesterday

We were fast roping out of helicopters. One of our Senior Sergeants w/ 20 yrs in forget to tie off his rope and then fell to his death. They investigated that for 3 months and finally it was ruled accidental.

LisaL

(47,927 posts)
24. I think it's a little different if you forget to tie off your own rope versus
Sun Jun 14, 2026, 09:12 AM
Yesterday

you throw someone off the edge without any rope. Especially considering that if you forget your own rope, there is no one left to punish.

RandomNumbers

(19,290 posts)
38. Hmm, I was in the service about the same time, and have trouble imagining
Sun Jun 14, 2026, 01:53 PM
Yesterday

any situation where there wasn't some sort of "buddy check" rule.

But I wasn't 11B (aka bullet-stopper) and while I got to ride in helos occasionally and I tried out the skydiving club at one duty station, I never did "fast roping out of helicopters". Gotta believe a buddy check was put in place after the incident you describe.

(I am NOT questioning your story ... just seems like that unit you were in was a bit lax and probably got tightened up a bit after that.)

Jacson6

(2,294 posts)
41. They had a chief that fouled up.
Sun Jun 14, 2026, 01:58 PM
Yesterday

S.N.A.F.U. I was in the 101st Airborne when it happened.

sop

(19,709 posts)
27. You'd think the stupid asshole holding her feet would notice the cord wasn't attached.
Sun Jun 14, 2026, 09:34 AM
Yesterday

Then the same stupid asshole watches as the other two stupid assholes walk toward the edge before throwing her over, still not noticing the cord wasn't attached, saying nothing. The person taking the video finally notices and pans down to show the cord is still on the ground right after she's thrown off.

LisaL

(47,927 posts)
34. I sincerely doubt it.
Sun Jun 14, 2026, 01:33 PM
Yesterday

What would be the motive? It seems more like extreme negligence with clueless people in charge.

LisaL

(47,927 posts)
37. I am not saying they shouldn't investigate, but I don't see this as a murder conspiracy.
Sun Jun 14, 2026, 01:50 PM
Yesterday

These people organized a bungee jumping event (doesn't sound like they had proper permits, from the link I found). But they appear to not have checks and balances. I think one of them was supposed to attach her, but he forgot, and the other two aren't checking if she is attached.

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