Teen Tries To Ride Bicycle Off 25-Foot Ledge - Hospitalized (Jackass Stunt)

[matcom]

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PLEASANTON — An 18-year-old Pleasanton resident was seriously injured Sunday after he attempted to ride a bicycle off a 25-foot-high ledge onto a hill on the grounds of Foothill High School.

Christopher White set up a camera on a tripod to record the jump. The incident was also filmed by two Foothill High students who happened to see White right before his jump. The students did not try to talk White out of jumping, police said, and called 9-1-1afterward.

"He came short of being completely paralyzed from the neck down," Livermore Pleasanton Fire Battalion Chief Glenn Haendel said.

The incident was reported at 11:57 a.m., during a football tournament at the school.

"They (the two students) found an individual who took his bike and did a Jackass stunt," Haendel said, referring to a TV show where people perform dangerous and painful stunts for amusement. "He had taken his bike ... off a 25-foot-tall building."

Pleasanton police Sgt. Craig Eicher described the building as being a concrete utility shed in the middle of campus. On one side the building was only five feet off the ground, but on the other side, which faced a grassy hill, it was 25 feet high.

The two students were working on a video project at the school.

"White told the students that he had done this before," Eicher said. White attempted the jump and crash-landed on the grass at the bottom of the hill.

"When he impacted the ground, what hit first was the front tire and his face," Haendel said.

http://www.insidebayarea.com/argus/localnews/ci_4703672

[Hugin]

1. Woohoo...

Idiot. :eyes:

[flvegan]

2. Idiots. Let me introduce you to

The Gary Fisher King Fisher 1:



This is a bike for pros. Note the 7" of front travel in that fork, and what looks to be 5 or 6 in the back. Even a pro would have to be pretty whacked to try a 25' drop, even on this $4k piece of machinery while fully decked in protective gear.

[taterguy]

7. It would be especially dumb to do on a 4K bike

If you're going to do something like that do it on a cheap bike. No sense in risking something valuable: like your skull

[graywarrior]

3. Word of advice. Don't use a bike next time

[Hugin]

4. Between that and your duck...

It cracks me up! :rofl:

[graywarrior]

6. Matcom brings out the best in me.

[LeftyMom]

5. That is the cutest pic ever.

:dies: