City Desk – Stunt Junkie Faces Intervention

Okay, for the last time people, you are not allowed to jump off the Empire State Building!

I know this seems like common sense, and usually the dark area of people we should be saving, but glory hounds abound these days. Take knucklehead daredevil Jeb Corliss, who a few years back tried to jump off the Empire State Building in his “human wing” outfit.

The former “Stunt Junkies” host claimed he wasn’t putting anyone at risk when he attempted to jump off the 86th-floor observation desk in April 2006. Insanely, a Manhattan judge agrees! Never mind all the people below he could have landed on, or the traffic accidents he could have caused as he flew down to street level.

Common sense prevailed in the Appellate Division, in a decision made public, to overturn the previous judge’s legal hijinx. The panel said Corliss endangered building security officers, visitors on the observation deck and people on the ground when he made it onto the observation deck’s ledge by scaling a steel barrier.

Corliss said he would appeal the decision to the state level, hoping that there is a fan of his stupidity there.

“At the time of this attempted jump, there was absolutely no law on the books prohibiting him from doing this,” Heller said.

No law except basic common sense.