05-18-2005, 05:26 AM
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Originally Posted by tashawasha
Risk? He jumped from the second floor. I'm not sure what he was thinking, but maybe it went something like this:
Hmm, I want to do something cool and "risky"-looking, without the actual risk. Maybe, if I jump off the Eiffel Tower (with a parachute) people will think I"m cool, and one day say I'm a hero. Anyway, if anything goes wrong, like my parachute getting tangled in the metal structure, I'll be fine since I'm only jumping from the second floor.
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"Second floor" was probably a mistranslation in the original news reports. Here's a
quote from a more recent article:
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When the man reached the tower's second deck 380 feet up Monday evening, he jumped, but his parachute evidently got caught on the tower's structure and detached. He landed on the 182-foot-high first deck.
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