Why illegal BASE jumper called police on himself
A BASE jumper who jumped illegally from a Wisconsin mobile phone tower ended up calling the police himself after his parachute became caught on electricity wire, leaving him dangling perilously 15 metres from the ground.
Police say the 20-year-old, Mason D. Barth, jumped from the 90-metre Charter Communications tower in Menomonie on Thursday morning (local time).
It took rescue crews almost one hour to free the man who was treated at Mayo Clinic Health System and released.
Once his feet were firmly on the ground, police arrested the illegal BASE jumper for criminal trespassing.
BASE jumping stands for ‘building, antenna, span and earth’, the four common objects from which BASE jumpers launch their descent.
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