RE: [b] --tossers

["Bod NotBod" <bodnotbod@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

"While Edmonds and death occupy the same sentence, could someone clarify for 
me the whole Edmunds and/or Beadle 'murdering contestants for comedy effect' 
thing?"

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Edmonds-Bungee
http://www.bungeezone.com/disasters/club.shtml
'bout half way down:
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"Television Tragedy
This happened years and years ago when bungee was still quite a new sport. 
It's quite a well documented story, but I can't seem to find any so I am 
recalling it from memory.

It was on Noel Edmonds British TV show (with Mike Smith) They used to 
arrange dangerous stunts for people from the audience to participate in. One 
volunteer was chosen to do a bungee. I have heard two versions of this story 
and would like to know which is true. Sadly they both have the same gruesome 
outcome. Version 1 is that the rope was not attached and the guy plummeted 
to meet the reaper. The second is that there was a fault with the way the 
crane was attached to the cage and this failed. I image there would be a 
higher death rate for the second story.

Extra Info from: Jos Martin

Though strictly a bungee disaster, there were no jumpmasters of any sort on 
the site. The BBC decided that they knew better than everyone and got their 
stunt co-ordinator on the case. The failure was actually a Carabina which 
wasn't backed up. Again Ding will have far more information on this one.

Even more Extra Info from: Joss Gower

Mike Lush the Bungee jumper had no prior exp. in Bungee jumping, also the 
BBC never called in a Stunt Co-ordinator, they in fact called in an 
escapologist to rig the jump!! Mike Lush was also to clip himself on (and 
forgot) and just to top it all off there was no airbag!!!"
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I don't think Beadle ever killed anyone.

gp



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