Posted on 09/02/2025 9:53:59 AM PDT by BenLurkin
A mom of two has died in front of her son after slipping off an almost 300-foot-high platform while trying to take a selfie to celebrate completing a dangerous bungee jumping stunt, authorities in Russia said.
Extreme sports fanatic Elizaveta Gushchina, 45, carried out the jump on Saturday — the same day she plummeted to her death in front of her 22-year-old son, Nikita, according to local authorities.
Gushchina then returned to the top of the 289-foot chimney at an unfinished thermal power plant without her safety harness to take a selfie with her son when she lost her footing and fell, hitting a hard surface above the ground, Russian state media outlet RIA Novosti reported.
“She secured herself to a rope used for rope jumping, but did not set the required safe length. Then, approaching the edge, the woman slipped on a wet board, fell from a height, and died,” a source told Russian outlet REN TV.
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Is that what’s important? Or maybe it’s important to be wise and be around for your kids and family rather than a fool (self pleasing addict) chasing your next high.
All fun and games til you do something stupid and totally Avoidable and leave your family without you.
Zero to 90 mph in 5 seconds. What does one think about?
Mama says, “Stupid is as stupid does.”
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
She only gets 4.3 seconds so she probably didn’t get a chance to finish her thought.
I’d rather die doing something that I hate doing.
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Then I wouldn’t have to do it anymore!
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