Rakesh Reddy Kandula

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• 1. Neha  |  April 11th, 2009 at 9:34 pm

  Hi,
  I was there to experience this really unfortunate event. We had just reached the spot and were registering when we stopped to look at the people who were doing the reverse bungee jump. This boy looked quite young and as he swung up in the air everyone cheered for him. Suddenly as he bounced back in the air the hook snapped and he fell face down.
  What I want to bring to the notice of everyone is the fault of the company Headrush that was organising the event. They had NO safety measures. There was no safety net. Apart from that, they had NO ambulance or even first aid kit. The doctor there looked as paranoid as the rest of us. For the first 15 mins, this boy was just lying there unconscious with serious injuries. Then finally they decided to put him in a scorpio and took him to the hospital.
  This is severe lack of safety and a very casual approach. Adventure sports are for fun but this company needs to realise that they cannot get away with such an incident. He might have survived if they had all the safety precautions they boast of on their website.
  I have bungee jumped twice before (once in bombay and once in new zealand) and I know the precautions taken by the companies are very strict and alert.

  This is a request to everyone in the future. Please DO NOT do such sports in India ever again. Sad to say, but we do not have the facilities and responsibilities to handle fun in a serious way.

• 2. Manan Jain  |  April 11th, 2009 at 9:54 pm

  This is indeed shocking !!! i was the last person who did bungee on friday i.e. 10th April. It was all dark at 8:30 PM when i jumped, and my friends were denied the jump when their turn came after me, citing security reasons. Am so fortunate to be typing this, it could have been me !!!!

• 3. admin  |  April 11th, 2009 at 10:01 pm

  I would say, spread awareness among as many people as possible so that at least in future such mishaps could be avoided……seriously when it comes to safety, its always given least importance in india…..very sad that something that is supposed to be fun and adventurous has turned out to be such a tragedy

• 4. Venkatesh Varalu  |  April 11th, 2009 at 10:31 pm

  I was jumping from the morning to go to this Bungee jumping.
  Got succumbed to laziness and thought will go tomorrow. I am glad that I did not…

  Feel so bad for that person.

• 5. rahul nair  |  April 12th, 2009 at 12:24 am

  Oh! my god. I didnt think it could get this serious.
  In fact me and my friend had done Bungee Jumping from the same place two weeks back.
  I am entirely in shock, and to think we trusted those guys blindly…

• 6. Zaryab RIzvi  |  April 12th, 2009 at 12:57 am

  Hi Friends,

  I had been to the event with my couin and his friends. this being the my first trip to bangalore, i had curosity to see the people and activities of the city.

  My friends had booked the jump yeterday and were supposed to do the jump at 2:45 PM. but as they had to pick me from work, they were delayed for their jump, and we reached the place around 3:15 and on reaching the site we were shocked to know that someone has met with accident an the event was cancelled for the day. We stayed back at the site for sometime and then we came to know that the guy who met with accident had minor injuries.

  Thereafter, my friend called the police station about the incident. And it was only when police called back, they informed that the guy had died in wockart hospital.

  It was really shocking for all of us to know about such an incident and we pray that the soul of the person shall rest in peace. Life is a very precious thing and just to earn small money, people risk the lives of common man.

  I was never wlling to go for the jump may be i was scared but the murderers of the boy don’t fear, who so ever they were. These small incidents take plae everyday in every city but no one notices the same. And the carefree attitude that people take on such issues incourage such people to risk the lives of so many.

  I want to say that such people shall be punished, no matter what resources such people have. We have to standup for our safety. There are so many things that are wrong in the society but the only way to solve such things is that we have to change our attitude towards things and should stand up against any such wrong thing.

  It could have been anyone, right now the person is unknown to us but the person could have been me if i would have tried or my friends.

  The population of our country is over 1.5 billon, but that does not mean cost of life of people is less. Every life is precious and people shall understand such things.

  The question is not punishing the people guilty at the present instance but the important thing is to act tough and avoid future mishappenings. If the law punishes the culprit in every such activity by strong action then it can have a deterent effect.

  That the organisers had a net that was on 6 bamboo sticks in the name of safety, without any first aid facilities. We mourn the death of the innocent young guy.

  The family of the boy will never be able to overcome the death, but we shall avoid any such incident to happen by whatever we can do.

  I request everyone to understand our rights and our duties. Please vote this time and please vote for the person whom you think can take care of the rights of all the citizens and for the person who is from the people and respects people and the rights and shall not vote for nyone from any party whom we think is fooling us.

  On a very sad note, i take your leave and i hope that we do good things in life and things that can make life of others better.

  Zaryab J Rizvi (Advocate)
  New Delhi
  9999784700, 9935484700

• 7. traveller  |  April 12th, 2009 at 1:03 am

  “CARE” is the organising company and the owners name is sheshadari. they are solely responsible for this accident and death. many companies like CARE work carelessly and result in death in adventure. we all should spread a message to others to stop entertaining activities from Sheshadari and his company so called “CARE”. Adventure is a matter of life and death and these guys should be held completely responsible for unfortunate death of an youngster.

• 8. prakhar  |  April 12th, 2009 at 1:17 am

  My friends and I were planning to go on Saturday, but I had my fears over the security so I said no. Luckily my friends also did not go due to some reason. This is truly sad.

• 9. Rupesh G  |  April 12th, 2009 at 4:07 pm

  Hi Rakesh,

  You sure it was BY BMCINDIA? As BMC mentioned in their email and webpage (http://bmcindia.org/events/bungee-jumping.html) was :”BMC is facilitating members and bungee organizers for registrations, we are not directly related to this event”.
  Also TOI says it was CARE and headrush :

  http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Cities/Marine-engineer-falls-to-bungee-death/articleshow/4390385.cms

• 10. admin  |  April 12th, 2009 at 5:45 pm

  Thanks Rupesh…I have updated my post with this info now

• 11. Deepa G  |  April 19th, 2009 at 12:13 am

  My God!! have heard of a similar incident in Goa with someone doing the paragliding thing. very sad and very very scary.

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