Thursday, October 8, 2009

Bungee Jump Fail on Phuket



And this is why I don't do crazy shit anymore. Fox News has the story.

A British daredevil's vacation bungee jump went horribly wrong when his cord came loose and he hit the water at 80 miles an hour — but miraculously, he survived.

Rishi Baveja, 21, told "FOX & Friends" Wednesday that he didn't even know the rope around his ankles had slipped off during his videotaped 165-foot leap in Thailand until the very end.

"I didn't know anything was wrong until I hit the water," he said by phone from his home in the U.K.

Baveja was on a month-long trip in the resort town of Phuket to celebrate getting his engineering degree from Cambridge, according to the U.K.'s Daily Mail.

That holiday turned into a month-long stay in the hospital in Bangkok, where doctors treated him for collapsed lungs, a torn liver and a ruptured spleen, among other injuries.

Somehow, Baveja escaped any major head trauma in the fall. The video shows him making the sign of the cross before he jumped.

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