Guys’ bungee jumping is a grievous, life threatening and serious sport which I soon realized at the cost of life. Retrospect myself for 2 days.
I, Rajput, Chandan and Tamghana all charged up on Saturday morning or even before that, excitement was running through the nerves, mere thinking was giving me the goose bumps. Chandan was scared (soon to be real) and declined for it but he accompanied.
Adventure started around 10:30 AM, took bikes and reached the destination in 1 hr. In between we had little snack and ciggies. Spot was actually for Paint Ball arena game but it was accommodated to have bungee jumping as well. We thought we were on time but later came to know that our turn was around 4:30 PM. I got irritated and annoyed. Literally pissed off!!
Anyways, we were also registered for Paint Ball game too so we played that. Armed with artilleries having small plastic balls filled with paint acting as ammos. To be noted, we were provided with all major necessary safety directions like mask and safety jackets. Those balls looked really small but they can be really painful. Hit on right spot like ass, can give pain and leave a stamp. Playing was fun although we lacked strategy and tactics.
On the contrary, safety measures for the bungee jumping were bare minimum or I will say non existent. An ambulance which is mandatory for most of the sports was invisible. Just for the namesake they have nets held by few sticks which I am damn sure can’t even stand my weight then how in the world it can be used as safety precaution? And imagine a thing minimum weight of 50+ kg, freely falling from the height of 140+ feet on this piece of crap net. That thing is doomed.
Moreover when we looked carefully after few jumps, people were barely hanging over the net. People oscillated so they were not still, it’s not possible to be in still position.
Left to right and vice versa, is natural and piece of shit (net) was rarely in picture.
To kill time we all moved to nearby resort where we had swimming mainly, some chess curious folks got busy in chess. Other games like table-tennis, shuttle etc was also given a hand. Lunch was awesome; speaking about me I strictly ate mutton only.
Around 3:30 PM we thought of moving to arena but got news “It’s cancelled”. Hearing that I got frustrated!! Why the fuck it got cancelled? Reason was person got injured while doing reverse bungee jump (people are shot in air whereas in normal bungee jump people are dropped from top). Well enough valid and justifiable reason to be scrubbed off.
Did I say injured? That guy was declared dead when took to hospital. His safety jacket and ropes ripped off in the mid air (height around 150 feet) and smashed the surface right on head. Ambulance on the spot would have given him some chance but lack of negligence and responsibility by the organizing committee didn’t even give that. Another shocking thing, they didn’t even have NOC. How the fuck they were allowed to go for it?
I felt very fortunate to have my turn @ 4:30 PM, luck worked. One asshole name tamghana was asking for rescheduling event. Some people don’t even earn from other mistakes. I really felt sorry for that guy because it was entirely unexpected for everyone, myself, his friends and most important his parents.
I vowed to myself that only after carefully and cautiously scrutinizing the safety measures by the organizers I’ll go for bungee jumping.
Sheer carelessness and ignorance of organizers took bungee jump death toll to 3 (see the Wikipedia link).
Wikipedia link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bungee_jumping#Safety_and_possible_injury
