Louisville in the News

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Doug Druschke/WLKY


Man Injured After Base Jumping From Downtown Building
Parachute Malfunction Sends Man To Hospital

POSTED: 11:14 am EST February 20, 2006
UPDATED: 6:06 pm EST February 20, 2006

LOUISVILLE -- A man was hospitalized after trying to base jump off the Waterfront Plaza building in downtown Louisville over the weekend.

Police said two others watched at about 4:30 a.m. as the victim climbed the outside of the building, WLKY NewsChannel 32's Andy Alcock reported.

He then jumped from 18 stories up, but something went wrong with his parachute.

The victim suffered a fractured elbow, bruised lungs and cuts on his forehead.

His name and condition have not been released.

Commonwealth's Attorney Dave Stengel said the man may face a criminal charge if he survives.

"About the best we've come up with is criminal trespassing, but I don't know if that'll fly," Stengel said. "Maybe not a good choice of words, but he was on the outside of the building."

Please follow WLKY NewsChannel 32 and WLKY.com for updates to this story as they become available.

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[SkyDaemon 0]

Seems to be the day for BASE jumpers to get hirt and make the news... :-|

find / -name jumpers -print; cat jumpers $USER > manifest; cd /dev/airplane; more altitude; make jump; cd /pub; more beer;

[MB38 0]

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The victim suffered a fractured elbow, bruised lungs and cuts on his forehead.
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...the man may face a criminal charge if he survives.

I really don't know what I'm talking about.

[bert_man 0]

Yea, those cuts on the forehead can be pretty lethal...

[cincybase 0]

Hey bro. get well and we'll be jumpin soon. www.quickhealers.com

Nothing I could do, I totally shit when I fart! -JK