he s had a few vodka cranberries. but as the boozy base jumper prepares to plunge. the california patrol officer drives up. doesn t even think about it. options are a, get in the back of a cop car with a guy who looks pretty pissed, or b, base jump over a oigs. go with b any day. sorry, i got to do it. here we go. boom. the guy does it. does a little roll in the sky. pops the chute out. and about 15 seconds later he s on the beach. after a perfect landing on the beach, he then lands in jail, ultimately convicted of disobeying a police officer among other charges. he spends 69 days in the slammer. you did that, bud edy.
of dare devils performing a spectacular base jump off of the top of denver s 45 story four season s hotel and they come in for a smooth landing. the stunt tock a lot of planning. first of all, you have people everywhere. we are normally out in the cliffs and canyons and me and mills and our bros and no one shares that experience for us. and down here in downtown denver we have all of you guys out here. theentious vent raised funds for the colorado scholarship. i like that and i know you are from denver. have you base jumped, john, i have to know. i have not. it locks fun but not one of those things that will happen. i perfect a airplane and
still jump out of a helicopter oroff a base jump and be able to fly down for a while. eight to ten minutes with the fuel he has gone all the way over the english channel with this thing. make you a deal. you do it. i ll be waiting on the ground with wine. all right. i ll bring the cheese. deal. chad myers, good luck with that. thank you very much. coming up next, we are talking about this at cnn. we re so excited. premiering this new film this week. our nixon. an intimate look at the nixon presidency like you have never seen before. take a look. i do not think you florfy on public television homosexuality.
through footwork or something like that and now he s fantastic. who knows if it s really solved yet, but he did work with steve clarkson this off-season and worked on his throwing motion with thai chi. it has something to do with getting his whole body in uni n unison. anything in between, who knew where it would end up, that was his problem with the accuracy. thai chi, who knows if it could solve tim tebow s throwing motions. the stuff you see old people doing in the parks? mr. miagi in karate kid. stick around, next hour big announcement could be made. just ahead in the newsroom, a base jump gone horribly wrong. how this lucky thrill seeker survived a dangerous parachute malfunction.
level, and he dives right in. russian daredevil valery rotsov with his demonstration of the principle what goes up must go down. going down pretty fast in this case, 125 miles an hour, the world s fastest base jump. is this just a string of record breaking jumps this past year? there was felix baumgartner s jump from a space form, the highest ever space dive, and titanic director james cameron took the deepest dive ever, jules verne style, 70,000 miles down, as deep as everest is tall. the base jumpers have just the squirrel suit to protect them. this man has done so many hair raising jumps like this one in switzerland, his closet is full of squirrel suits. i guess the question is why? he gives the classic mountain