25 March 2014

Idiots for the day


Nate Rawlings has a Time article about some real (and arrested for it) idiots:
Four thrill-seekers have been charged with felony burglary, misdemeanor reckless endangerment, and misdemeanor jumping from a structure, after three of them parachuted from the Freedom Tower in September of 2013.
Three men who are accused of parachuting from the top of One World Trade Center turned themselves in to authorities, and released a video of their death-defying leap from the tallest building in the western hemisphere.
The video of the stunt was shot by a helmet camera and shows one of the men plummeting from the 1,776-ft building before pulling the rip cord, then landing on a nearly empty street in lower Manhattan.
James Brady, 32; Andrew Rossig, 33; Marko Markovich, 27; along with Kyle Hartwell, 29, who is accused of being the ground man of the operation, were charged with felony burglary, misdemeanor reckless endangerment, and misdemeanor jumping from a structure. The four men pleaded not guilty and were released on bail. They could face up to seven years in prison if convicted of all charges.
New York Police Commissioner William Bratton said that surveillance cameras captured the jump, and police used the footage to track down the men in a six-month investigation. “Just a little snippet of video that we had of someone landing on the West Side Highway with a parachute around 4 am,” Bratton told New York City’s WABC-TV. “That’s all we had to work with initially.”
Rico says that's why they call it felony stupid...

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