Wow, check out this video of a bungee jump gone wrong. Erin Langworthy, a 22-year-old tourist from Australia, took a New Year’s Eve plunge off the Victoria Falls Bridge in Africa. The Bungee cord snapped at the end of her jump, sending her into the crocodile-infested river below. Somehow, she managed to survive with just a few cuts and bruises.
I’m scared of heights as it is, so a story like this just reinforces what I already know: I’ll never bungee jump in my life!! Not even if someone went over the whole operation with welding equipment beforehand to make sure that everything was secured nice and tight.
Can you imagine what that woman must have felt on her way down??? I probably would have passed out from panic and then drowned in the water. Kudos to Erin for keeping her wits about her, extricating herself from the cord and swimming to safety.