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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.
SheltieLover
(82,431 posts)Sounds like premeditated murder to me!
MustLoveBeagles
(18,073 posts)SheltieLover
(82,431 posts)That poor woman!
BlueWaveNeverEnd
(15,312 posts)LisaL
(47,927 posts)Did they even have the training on what they were supposed to have been doing? It's like they are expecting her to fly.
niyad
(134,983 posts)nuxvomica
(14,356 posts)That sounds pretty suspicious but maybe he is just really sensitive.
Bayard
(30,578 posts)C Moon
(13,803 posts)But maybe I watch too much Columbo.
Anyways, that was messed up. Poor lady.
LisaL
(47,927 posts)In this case we can see what happened.
CozyMystery
(768 posts)nuxvomica
(14,356 posts)The whole story sounds strange like it was written by AI.
If your loved one is thrown to their death, what kind of reaction are you going to have?
StarryNite
(12,194 posts)She just went along with it.
SheltieLover
(82,431 posts)LisaL
(47,927 posts)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)as it seems an incredibly abnormal thing to do. Life is dangerous enough as it is.
LisaL
(47,927 posts)But obviously one expects to come out alive.
displacedvermoter
(5,160 posts)considering what would happen in the event of human error...
LisaL
(47,927 posts)I am not sure one could survive this bungee jump even if the rope was attached.
BlueWaveNeverEnd
(15,312 posts)LisaL
(47,927 posts)NT
Enter stage left
(4,671 posts)LudwigPastorius
(15,192 posts)the end.
BidenRocks
(3,609 posts)Carried, then shoved, and finally, she fell.
What's it going to be?
LisaL
(47,927 posts)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?
sarisataka
(22,967 posts)She wasn't pushed, she was thrown willingly.
EdmondDantes_
(2,242 posts)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)that people throwing her off the mountain did their job properly. Horrible.
EdmondDantes_
(2,242 posts)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)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)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)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.
Jacson6
(2,294 posts)RandomNumbers
(19,290 posts)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)S.N.A.F.U. I was in the 101st Airborne when it happened.
sop
(19,709 posts)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.
Celerity
(55,225 posts)harumph
(3,486 posts)LisaL
(47,927 posts)What would be the motive? It seems more like extreme negligence with clueless people in charge.
Celerity
(55,225 posts)LisaL
(47,927 posts)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.
Baitball Blogger
(52,811 posts)GenThePerservering
(3,965 posts)aren't we? "Just push her off the cliff...it will be funny!"