Four base jumpers decided to take their talents to the top of 1 World Trade Center to perform a base jump. The daredevils James Brady, 32; Andrew Rossig, 33; Marko Markovich, 27; and Kyle Hartwell, 29 have been charged with felony burglary, misdemeanor reckless endangerment and misdemeanor jumping from a structure. “Everybody has their thing. This is our thing…we were thinking that very clearly that everything was working out for us to make a clean safe jump,” says Brady who is actually a construction worker at the WTC site.
The police were investigating the situation for six months now after a surveillance cameras captured the stunt. “Just a little snippet of video that we had of someone landing on the West Side Highway with a parachute around 4 a.m. That’s all we had to work with initially“, says police commissioner William Bratton. The four men have been released on $3500 bond. The price they could pay for this stunt, up to seven years in jail.
Security definitely needs to tighten over there at the World Trade Center or history will repeat itself.
