Submitted by Jeb Corliss, Mar 3, 2008 02:11

Sense the empire state building opened four successful base jumps have happened there. In the same time frame there have been over 30 suicides. Base jumpers care about their safety and the safety of other human beings. Suicides do not. Base jumpers have never been an issue at the empire state building and they never will be. It's the suicides they should be worried about. All four base jumps were done with not even one injury. All the suicides ended in fatalities. As you can see from the video of me at the empire a person can get over those bars in about 10 seconds with 3 security guards standing 3 feet away. These security guards were tipped off that I was coming and they knew my whole plan. Yet they were still unable to stop me from getting over the bars. They then had to put my life in danger in order to stop me from making a perfectly legal and safe base jump. Seems like their security is the issue here. This is not a legal issue, nor is it a suing me for 12 million $ issue. Neither one of those things will ever stop a suicide. This is an issue of implementing adequate security so suicides are no longer possible from their observation deck. I think instead of pushing their public relation program trying to give the impression they care about public safety they should actually do something that will actually make committing suicide from their building impossible. Do something real that will actually solve what they are calling a problem. No law will ever stop a suicide. No amount of money they sue me for will ever stop a suicide. Only through adequate security will they ever be able to stop the real threat to public safety, SUICIDES!!!! There are buildings in this country that suicides have never happened from. There are reasons for this. The reasons are simple. These buildings have good security making it impossible for people to kill them selves from them...

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