Daredevil Stuntman Falls 4,000 Feet After High Bar on Cliff Busts Into Pieces (Video)

Daredevil Stuntman Richard Henriksen fell 4,000 feet after high bar on cliff busts into pieces.
Oops.

From the video:
A Norwegian surgeon almost needed his own services after falling nearly 4,000 feet when an acrobatic BASE jump he attempted didn’t go as planned.

Richard Henriksen was trying to make his jump while swinging from a high bar placed alongside a cliff, but the bar broke as he tried to add an acrobatic twist to a BASE-jumping attempt. He was thrown off a cliff when the bar snapped as he twirled, the New York Daily News reported.

The stunt was being filmed for “Normal Madness,” a Norwegian TV show, and host Are Sende Osen admitted he thought Henriksen was a goner, according to NineMSN.com.

Miraculously, Henriksen survived the fall, opening his chute in the nick of time. However, he narrowly missed hitting his head on the side of the cliff and the bar he was swinging on almost fell on him as well, RightThisMinute.com reported.

ABC13 posted a different angle of the fall.

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   #1 October 15, 2012 at 7:38 am

   Bill Mitchell commented:

   New Dem +9 WAPO Poll shows Obama surging to 3 point lead.

   Dem +9. These people have no shame.

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   #3 October 15, 2012 at 8:26 am

   whraglyn commented:

   Too bad the chute opened.
   Tired to the core of seeing such stupidity and humanistically selfish behaviors encouraged by supposed conservatives.

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   #4 October 15, 2012 at 8:36 am

   whraglyn commented:

   Oops meant this to go in that last post:

   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KF214wDC4L8

   Please tell me what is laudatory or praiseworthy in such irrational actions? How is such foolish seeking of danger in pursuit of no more than adrenalized sensory input in any way conformal to values espoused by mainstream conservativism?
   How is such blatant disregard for life in line with conservative values more than it is in line with values and life choices promoted by drug dealers, gangsters, rap performers, Hollywood tv and movies, or liberalism in general?

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   #7 October 15, 2012 at 9:31 am

   CT commented:

   Thank God he made it, now the film can be used on everyone’s idiot reel.

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   #8 October 15, 2012 at 12:38 pm

   stuart commented:

   Insert obligatory dumb Swen and Ole joke here….

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   #9 October 15, 2012 at 12:58 pm

   bg commented:

   ++

   what is that mysterious looking flying object that enters the
   film clip at the 0:53/4 mark and disappears just as quickly??

   ==

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   #10 October 15, 2012 at 1:03 pm

   bg commented:

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   re: #9 October 15, 2012 at 12:58 pm bg

   it also enters and leaves at the 0:25/6 & 0:34/5 marks at regular
   speed vs the slow motion at 0:53/4 (give or take a split second)..

   ==

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   #11 October 15, 2012 at 1:27 pm

   pink tie Republican commented:

   A pretty good allegory for any number of Administration initiatives.