Remember those Australian tourists who BASE jumped off a Tin Hau skyscraper in March? Apparently hurling themselves towards Victoria Park with just a parachute and helmet in tow wasn’t quite enough for them, as a new video of taken from Hong Kong Stadium shows (jumps start at the 7:05 mark):
The footage, which was uploaded to Youtube yesterday by local student and trespasser of Bruce Lee’s home James Sight, shows a group of Sight’s friends breaking into the So Kon Po stadium at night and making their way up the steel lattice frame.
Before long, two members of the group — Australian visitors Wes Burrows and Locklan Gilbert — launch themselves off a narrow platform (with compatriot BJ Johnson helping to deploy the parachutes) and towards the pitch.
Check out Burrows’ (the first jumper) POV footage here:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BSipYqjBklt/?taken-by=wesburrows
While we don’t condone illegal activities, one of the main criticisms of the group’s previous BASE jump — that they could endanger the lives of others — doesn’t appear to apply in this case, what with the stadium being completely empty. Having said that, we still wouldn’t recommend breaking and entering (or reckless endangerment, vandalism, etc).
