WTF kind of person would decide to go rope jumping without asking whether or not a rope should be attached to them?
Seriously! I get if you are a rookie bungee jumper and don’t know how to properly strap the harness to your body. But I can’t imagine a person not noticing that there is no rope/bungee attached to them before being picked up and thrown airplane-style by two people. I even get that there are two people working the thing and both expecting the other to have checked the rope. But how can the lady not know that a rope wasn’t connected to her?
In this instance the instructors pick you up, run you to the edge, and throw you off. Because, allegedly, many people wouldn’t jump out far enough on their own.
Imo the problem is going to a place where this is required in the first place, but it’s not the victim’s fault they trusted the people running it to attach the safety equipment properly. The people running it do ostensibly have a vested interest in not killing their clientele.
The cord probably attaches to the back of the harness, so it would have been difficult for her to see that it wasn’t attached.
Yeah I’m not going to blame the victim here either. With two people on the job both of them should have been doing safety checks. Not just “assuming the other guy did it.”
I’m too scared of equipment failure to jump and would be paranoid enough to make sure I feel the right of the rope.
Mind you I’ve hung 3 stories up with proper gear down a building in my blue collar work days. We had two separate safety lines and OSHA. Still never again.
WTF kind of person would decide to go rope jumping without asking whether or not a rope should be attached to them?
Seriously! I get if you are a rookie bungee jumper and don’t know how to properly strap the harness to your body. But I can’t imagine a person not noticing that there is no rope/bungee attached to them before being picked up and thrown airplane-style by two people. I even get that there are two people working the thing and both expecting the other to have checked the rope. But how can the lady not know that a rope wasn’t connected to her?
In this instance the instructors pick you up, run you to the edge, and throw you off. Because, allegedly, many people wouldn’t jump out far enough on their own.
Imo the problem is going to a place where this is required in the first place, but it’s not the victim’s fault they trusted the people running it to attach the safety equipment properly. The people running it do ostensibly have a vested interest in not killing their clientele.
The cord probably attaches to the back of the harness, so it would have been difficult for her to see that it wasn’t attached.
Yeah I’m not going to blame the victim here either. With two people on the job both of them should have been doing safety checks. Not just “assuming the other guy did it.”
I’m too scared of equipment failure to jump and would be paranoid enough to make sure I feel the right of the rope.
Mind you I’ve hung 3 stories up with proper gear down a building in my blue collar work days. We had two separate safety lines and OSHA. Still never again.