Sabrina Gordon is seen wearing her U.S. Navy uniform. The 31-year-old woman died after falling from an attraction at the San Bernardino County Fair. (Credit: Sabrina Gordon/via Instagram)
Posted on 05/30/2015 4:21:00 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Video of FreeFall USA appeared to show three platforms jumpers could leap from.
Gordon was some 36 feet in the air when she was set to jump, then appeared to change her mind and fell, Victor Valley News reported.
The newspaper reported an employee attempted to grab the woman, but she fell, landing on the front side of her body.
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According to the statement, the attraction will not reopen, and the “San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department is conducting a thorough investigation.”
FreeDrop USA made its California debut at the fair this month, and promoters boasted it offered a “pure free fall,” without a bungee chord, harness or wires.
Video showed participants jumping from a platform and landing on what appeared to be a large blow-up mattress.
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Just because someone is willing to take your money doesn’t mean it is a good idea.
Giving someone your money has never validated anything to be a good idea.
It sounds like fun, 36 feet is almost the same height as the exit practicing tower at jump school, I think it was 34 feet, we were told that is a fear height for most people.
Someone needs to be held negligent and criminally accountable, and then push the blame up the ladder if appropriate.
We’ve somehow created a perverted culture where businesses and corporations that screw up are treated differently from the average people that are held accountable. The corporations write a check from the shareholders and that ends it.
Much of the difference comes down to those having money to bribe the system. Corruption and money needs to be removed from the political and justice system if we ever want an honest system that treats all of our society as equals.
The problem is that they portray it as “the corporation” doing it. Can’t put a corporation in jail.
But of course humans within that corporation made the decision and should be held accountable accordingly. The limited liability of a corporation should not extend to criminal acts.
Stupid video. It doesn’t even follow through to the landing.
Unless someone drug her up the ladder and pushed her off, I would suggest that she was complicit in her own demise.
How horrible. Tears in my eyes from the loss of this woman and the pain her family is feeling over her needless death.
What happened? Did she miss the landing pillow?
The video appears to be after the fact - police milling around. Or I missed something.
I would suppose from this, and the statement in the article that she “appeared to change her mind”, that she fell straight down and bounced backwards off the near edge of the pillow. Legally, I don’t know. Cosmically, it was her own fault.
Yep. Very sad. God comfort her loved ones.
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