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The Zambezi Fall Girl

2012 Reader Submission
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Snapped bungee plunges tourist into African river http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/video?id=8495682&syndicate=syndicate§ion=

A 22-year-0ld student from Australia who survived a near-death fall into a crocodile-infested river when her bungee cord snapped was able to smile and laugh about her harrowing adventure today, even suggesting she might try it again. Erin Langworthy described her remarkably cool reaction to a 360 foot plunge into the churning waters of the Zambezi River at Victoria Falls, the world’s largest waterfall. On Dec. 31, Erin's bungee jump went terribly wrong. After leaping from a bridge above the water, Langworthy zoomed towards the river, with her legs tied together by the bungee cord. Instead of recoiling back up, as planned, the cord instead snapped, sending her head first into the river’s rapids. “The actual bungee cord was still attached so I actually got completely sucked under, and the rope kept getting stuck and dragged her under a couple of times, so I had to actually go down and pull it back up so I could go back up to the surface,” she said She was eventually breast stroked to the side of the river and pulled herself onto dry land. It was only later that she was told the river is infested with crocodiles. Langworthy spent a week in the hospital with a fractured collar bone and cuts and bruises along her legs and arms.

This is only an Honorable Mention. As far as I know Crocodiles don't hang out in white water but had Erin Langworthy reached the basin where the white water ends then she'd achieved Full Honors as a Darwin Awardee when she'd became lunch for the Crocs.

Submitted on 01/10/2012

Submitted by: Harry Rainey, Jr.
Reference: ABC News : January 9, 2012

Copyright © 2011 DarwinAwards.com

>> Moderator Scores <<

Bruce said:
Definitely Toss: No Self-Selection
Thanks, harry, but I just don't see any stupidity or self-selection here. I saw a report about this on the news the other day and they indicated that something like 100,000 people had bungee jumped off of this bridge without any sort of incidents like this. So this woman had absolutely no reason to assume that she was in any sort of actual danger from the bungee breaking. And even if there was some sort of negligence involved in this accident, then all blame would be on the people operating the bungee, not on the woman who was unfortunate enough to be strapped into it when it failed. Again, she could reasonably assume that everything was safe and operating properly.


James said:
Definitely Toss: No Self-Selection
As Bruce said. It wasn't her fault the bungee cord broke!


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