To me the screwed up part is companies that sponsor this stuff like Red Bull. I was working right next to this tragic Base jump - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki

To me the screwed up part is companies that sponsor this stuff like Red Bull. I was working right next to this tragic Base jump - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ueli_Gegenschatz https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ueli_Gegenschatz - we used to eat lunch in the Sunrise Tower and one day there's a really weird vibe in the room because 30 minutes earlier this guy had Base jumped from the roof and crashed; he was still alive when they took him to hospital but died later. The screwed up part of the story according to what I've _heard_ - and which didn't really get well reported - the wind conditions that day were unpredictable. He shouldn't have been jumping at all, but decided to anyway because Red Bull - the sponsor - plus the press were there and he didn't want to disappoint everyone by cancelling. So you could argue it was his decision, but was it really? There should at least be some independent referee that makes the final call on stuff like this.