# big\_jump video information **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [July 23, 2004, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big_jump-video-information/256523 "2004-07-23T15:30:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![badmana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@badmana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/badmana)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2004, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big_jump-video-information/256523/1 "2004-07-23T15:30:13Z")
This video’s been spreading throughout my office and as the semi-offical debunker I’m trying to get info on this incident. The name of the file is big\_jump.mpeg but there are other videos online that share that name. In the video a Korean (from what I can see of the characters imprinted on the video) male jumps off a building falling feet first approx. 15 stories. The video stops when he lands. The email message that came with the video said the guy was producing a tv show and tried to bungee off the side of the building but forgot to tie the cord. This makes no sense since if he had bungeed off the building he’d have slammed into the side on his return trip. Anyways, anyone seen this video? The clip is ~600Kb Thanks! And yes, I tried snopes already (no luck). ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2004, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big_jump-video-information/256523/2 "2004-07-23T15:36:39Z")
> [@badmana](#): > > This makes no sense since if he had bungeed off the building he’d have slammed into the side on his return trip. If he was dim enough not to attach a rope, I doubt he was concerned with smashing into the side of the building. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![badmana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@badmana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/badmana)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2004, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big_jump-video-information/256523/3 "2004-07-23T15:41:17Z")
Well, the email was attached to seemed fishy. Here’s the email (I hope I don’t get in trouble for posting it): > [@](#): > > This idiot was producing a TV show and wanted to do a Bungee jump from The top of this building as a publicity stunt. When he was told that the police had been called and were on their way he hurriedly attached the cord to the cleat on the building but, (and this is very important)…he forgot to attach it to himself!!! The video also shows him jumping feet first in a crouch. Bungee jumpers usually jump forward and down AFAIK. He slams into the ground in the same position. I’m pretty sure if he lived, he’s pretty broken. The video was taken from across the street and zoomed out as he fell. ---
**Author:** ![beltbuckle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3da27b/32.png) [@beltbuckle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beltbuckle)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2004, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big_jump-video-information/256523/4 "2004-07-23T16:35:13Z")
Here is a [linkety link](http://wayweird.com/archives/2004/jan/big_jump.mpg) to said video. Wish they wouldn’t have cut the end so soon after the impact. ---
**Author:** ![DougC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7feea3/32.png) [@DougC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DougC)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2004, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big_jump-video-information/256523/5 "2004-07-23T20:39:29Z")
- - - I’d bet a suicide, plain and simple. The guy didn’t “forget to attach his bungee cord”, because he didn’t even have a harness on. Where would he have attached the bungee cord? ~ ---
**Author:** ![badmana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@badmana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/badmana)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2004, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big_jump-video-information/256523/6 "2004-07-23T21:16:44Z")
Thanks for posting the link **beltbuckle**. I was thinking suicide as well but the video shows people behind the jumper. Rather strange to bring your friends with you to your own suicide (or have strangers simply watching). Can anyone translate the text on the video? It looks Korean to me. Was it a news cast? ---
**Author:** ![badmana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@badmana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/badmana)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2004, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big_jump-video-information/256523/7 "2004-07-23T21:22:08Z")
Actually, I paid some more attention to the begining of the video. There is at least one hand reaching for him (at least it shows a hand in a few frames reaching out to _something_). Also, the text may be Japanese (I’m pretty embarrassed since I’m Japanese, I should be able to at least identify Japanese text). I don’t think it’s Chinese. I’ll show it to my mother and see if she can read it. Also, the cars at the end of the video are rather old/strange. I can’t really see it as being recorded in Japan any time recently. ---
**Author:** ![Chimpy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@Chimpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimpy)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2004, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big_jump-video-information/256523/8 "2004-07-23T21:26:03Z")
I believe that text is Japanese, although there are none of the Kanas that differentiate Chinese from Japanese but the first two symbols are “Heisei” which is the current Japanese era, starting in 1989 so therefore it means “1991, June, Hiroshima”. ---
**Author:** ![Chimpy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@Chimpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimpy)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2004, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big_jump-video-information/256523/9 "2004-07-23T21:27:06Z")
The voice over also speaks in Japanese. ---
**Author:** ![badmana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@badmana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/badmana)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2004, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big_jump-video-information/256523/10 "2004-07-25T17:17:47Z")
I didn’t know there was sound. Yeah, the speaker was speaking Japanese (only got out a word before the guy jumped). I believe now it’s a suicide. Very common thing in Japan.