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THREE BASE JUMPERS who posted footage of their incredibly terrifying antics at 1 World Trade Center last September have been arrested.
On 30 September 2013, the men launched themselves off the 1,776-foot building and landed safely on the Manhattan streets below.
A YouTube video of their stunt yesterday was posted yesterday and two of the suspects surrendered themselves at a local precinct.
A fourth man, who is said to have kept watch for the jumpers, has also been detained by police, according to NBC New York.
Andrew Rossig, James Brady, Marko Markovich and Kyle Hartwell face a number of charges including burglary and felony.
Rossig said that they took care to ensure they were not endangering anybody else with their jump – which took place at 3am.
However, Police Commissioner Bill Bratton said the men violated the law.
“These arrests should send a message to anyone thinking about misusing a landmark this way. They will be tracked down and they will face serious charges. Being a thrill-seeker does not give immunity from the law.”
The acronym BASE stands for ‘Building Antenna Span Earth’.
Helmet-cam footage of the jump was posted to YouTube yesterday and Business Insider picked out some of the best bits.
Here’s one of the men right as he jumps off 1 World Trade:
Business Insider/YouTube
Helmet cams captured the view of the city from the perspective of the jumpers:
Business Insider/YouTube
And you can see what it looks like to land:
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A little insensitive to the people who had to jump without shoots maybe….
Yeah, I somehow doubt they were having a go at the victims of such a tragedy.
You’re right. I very much doubt they were.
So much for security.
These two lads from Russia managed to climb all the way to the top of Shanghai tower with no safety equipment at more than 2190 feet:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLDYtH1RH-U
Crazy.
That made me feel slightly ill!
That’s absolutely mental!!!
Only Jim Corr knows what really happened
The height of the new World Trade Center being 1776 feet high is based on America’s year of Indipendence from the British. A truly magnificent structure. Good luck to the base jumpers.
A super building:
The building contains 49,000 cubic yards of concrete, enough to pave more than 200 miles of NYC sidewalks
Among 1WTC’s unique construction elements are its high-strength concrete, which can withstand seven times more pressure than standard concrete.
Lets hope the security and re-enforcement design put into this building never has to prove its worth.
“49,000 cubic yards of concrete, enough to pave more than 200 miles of NYC sidewalks”
But it didn’t.
So it’s pointless numbers trivia so beloved of people trying to find content.
Some craic, I’d say
$200 fine for running that red light when landing.
I know what i’d be doing if I worked in that new building,
stashing a parachute on the roof in the event of….
They jumped from the roof. 1368 feet above the ground. The spire adds over 400 feet making the 1776.
That was crazy,some adreneline running there!
In 2001 US Government officials also sneaked passed security agents at its former buildings, ie the Twin Towers and Building 7 when they were planting controlled demolition explosives. I wonder why any of these officials were never arrested for more serious charges than just Burglary and felony charges?
Did you manage to find that all by yourself Frank? Or did you get Nicole or Padraic to help you with it?
This song keeps popping into my head every time I read one of your comments:
lol , did they find evidence of the fake moon landings when they were in there? its a pity white trash in US trailer parks are allowed internet access, they just muddy things for everyone else
Frank you do actually realise that approximately 6 months of preparation by multiple demolition teams would be necessary in order for a controlled demolition of a 20 storey building let alone the 110 storey towers and WTC 7.
Call it controlled demolition,call it whatever you want.All I know is that anybody who believes the official 9/11 story is a complete and utter moron
It’s strange that the steel columns at the bottom of the towers had a clean explosive cut along them. Let the red thumbs explain that!!!!!!
@ Willy Motley – Here is every single thing you needed to know in regards to 9/11 and all of the conspiracy theories that have been linked to it have been debunked:
Glen, Horgay and golden as well.
What you mean by that willy?
Wow. People are so conditioned by American propaganda that they vigorously defend the official line of a country they’re not even from.
Wake up people and stop believing everything you read in commercial privately owned media.
Better to question than to blindly accept and become a benign robot.
Its always the nut-bars that tell us to “wake up”.
Michael nobody was vigorously defending the official line of anything. Just because someone doesn’t buy into every conspiracy theory that comes along doesn’t mean they are a benign robot or that they are ‘conditioned by American propaganda’.
He’s a bit mad that Frank is.
Of course this operation would have been well planned and calculated involving millions…..It all paid off though….Iraq Afghanistan Libya and of course the Patriot Act and more…
Sketchy doing it in the day time, absolutely crazy to go at it at night ( although probably necessary). Kudos to them looked like it would be a huge thrill to do it. For me I think it’d be ballsy to look over the edge let alone jump off it.
Are American authorities always this joyless, they were just having a laugh.
Yes
They should have wrapped themselves in sheets, grown long beards and shouted “Durka Durka Mohammed Jihad Stoodbacker Stood – I love your balls”.
Then watch what the police will do.
fair play to them.
crazy feckers
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