A video showing a person jumping from the Skyride in Seaside Heights is making the rounds on the Internet.
The Skyride is the official name of an aerial tramway that runs about 30 feet above most of the length of the town's boardwalk. A video of a person jumping down to the beach below had more than 13,000 views Monday morning.
The video – which was shot as were beginning to roll into the area Saturday night – shows the Skyride stationary, presumably from a loss of electrical power due to the storms.
"Oh my God, look, they got stuck," shouts the person who took the video, as the camera points toward the ride.
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One rider, a female, drops her shoes down to the sand, then can be seen sliding off the ride and landing on the beach. The video is unclear as to whether a second passenger also jumped off, but implies that person did as well.
Officials in Seaside Heights and a representative for Casino Pier, which operates the Skyride, could not be immediately reached for comment.
A person claiming to be the jumper posted in the comments section of the YouTube video, saying she was alive, but "just sore."
The incident Saturday night is not the first time someone has taken a plunge from the Skyride. In 2010, a Milltown teen was critically injured after falling from the ride. In 1997, three people fell from the ride in a matter of four weeks.
The girl saw post about her and video someone took of her stuck up there and jumping and she responded saying she was ok just a bit sore.
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To address your statement, "... I think jumping was the right thing to do," I just want to state that no one should jump off of a chairlift unless authorities request that you do so. Jumping off a chairlift endangers the other patrons on the chairlift, because any awkward distribution of weight may result in the cables jumping the track and thus everybody would fall. This has happened on mountains out west. In cases of emergencies, there are safe methods of removing riders from the chairlift.
From the looks of it nobody was moving towards the girl on the skyride to assist her getting down, and being in that line of storms before it got to seaside, it was moving FAST!!! It was already on top of them when she jumped, had she sat there waiting a minute or two longer her risk of being hit by lightning would have increased 1000%. And looking at video all other chairs were empty around her. I would have jumped down also 100%!
Exactly!!!!!! Great adventure monitors weather and shuts sky ride long before storms get close, boardwalk should do the same especially for rides like this that take a long time to offload everyone!
Need to keep a local weather radar at all these places.
Have you ever been hit by lightning? Doubtful. I have and believe me whatever pain she is feeling from the jump is a whole hell of a lot less than I felt. Not to mention the PTSD I have had to combat since 1998 when it happened. No one was helping her. Not even the guy filming. Maybe instead of taping he should have been calling 911 or offering to help. That storm was rolling in fast and I am sure self preservation took over. We are not in the mountains out west and I highly doubt she thought she would be endangering anyone. This is the Seaside Heights Boardwalk. If this was on a beautiful day and someone just randomly jumped I would say it was irresponsible and just plain dumb but that is not the case here.