Bridge Day Registration Details

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Bridge Day registration starts July 1st at 2pm EST. Go to: www.bridgeday.info for details. You can register through a secure server. Your personal information will be securely handled by one BASE jumper only (Jason Bell). You will be required to submit your name, date of birth, and SSN (or passport and country if not a US citizen). This data will be personally delivered by me to the Sheriff around Sept. 1st for background checks and then destroyed after Bridge Day 2002. If you would like to get around the SSN issue, you have until Sept. 1st to provide alternative solutions to the State of WV's mandatory background checks in order to bring "backpacks" onto the New River Gorge Bridge. Please let us know if you have any ideas.

What will disqualify you during the background check? Previous arrests for terrorist activities, bombs, etc. Misdemeanor warrants such as traffic tickets will not disqualify you nor get you arrested at Bridge Day. If you have a felony warrant for something else, I suggest you not register or show up at Bridge Day 2002. Sorry I have to mention this, but jumpers have asked lately.

Holiday Inn room reservations are first come, first serve starting Sept. 1-15 for registered jumpers or trade show booth registrants only. If your name is not on the registered jumper or trade show booth list we provide to the Holiday Inn, then you should try to get a room at the Comfort Inn or the new Super 8.

How will you know if you got one of the 400 slots to jump at Bridge Day 2002? If the webstore is enabled, you can still register. I will try to update the webstore daily to show how many slots are left. When all slots are full, we'll take a "waiting list" in case someone drops out. The website will clearly state when registration is full.

Staff members will be contacted for registration details by this weekend. All staff must register just like everyone else.

Jumping is $60, same as last year. Trade show booths are $100, same as last year. Hotel rooms are $143.88 for Friday and Saturday night with a 2-night minimum, which is about the same as last year from what I recall.

Mandatory items are 9' bridles and 42" minimum pilot chutes. No high performance canopies are permitted. Please jump base specific gear if possible. Don't forget, this year you can choose to jump from the top of the Go Fast bus (12.5' tall) or the standard ramps on the railing!!!


Questions? Please read our FAQ on the website mentioned above or email any of us at:
http://www.bridgeday.info/contactus.html

Have a great Bridge Day 2002, from the Go Fast Event Company!

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[guest]

Where is Jim Guyer? Isn't he signing the permit? Why do we have to pay for this Go Fast promotion? Will you publish a financial report?

[guest]

Hey ##### it isn't any of your damm business how the financials work. So quit asking. It's a business so Fu(king get over it. I personally think they deserve it just solely on the fact that all of you assholes cry about it all of the time and the bullshit they or any past event coordinator has to got through. Pay it or shut the hell up cry baby.

In fact why dont you post all of you financial accounts, bank staments, check book, ATM passcods, etc. for us to see I think that is fair since I am a base jumper. Don't you think I have the right!!

Ya right.

Deal with it

[guest]

Yeah "Guest" you b1tch,

I'm with Fu(k you on this one. Quit your damn belly aching. Oh my god, where's all the money going......boo hoo. The bottom line is, you pay the money or don't jump. 60 f'in bucks man. For jumping and partying. Oh wait!!....I guess your argument will be "yeah, but uh 60 x 400 = 24,000 and that's alot of money" so what retard! I hope they make a huge profit and party there a$$es of at some remote BASE paradise.

Do a better job yourself, or FU(K OFF.

what a moron

[Skinflicka]

Sorry dude, I disagree...They should do a better job AND fu(k off.

[guest]

Hey Skin,

How can you say they should do better when the event hasn't even happened yet?

Another dumba$$. Bottom line AGAIN, do better yourself or SHUT UP!!

[guest]

It sounds to me that Guest and Skin want to compare check books with the BD staff. It's amazing how peolpe start their whinning and they haven't put one foot on the bus for BD 2002.

Trust me...Everyone ever involved in BD made something. Whether it be monitary or sheer happiness they gained something. This is almost a full time job for anyone involved. This is WORK. This is work for your sorry a$$es to make a jump. With that being said shut up and jump. If you choose not to go to BD then that's just another slot for someone else to fill. I'm sure this will be a person who respects the work others due for them for simple emjoyment.

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[guest]

Refer to the JTS - B&D threads. There seem to be a bunch of dickheads on this board who hate to see anyone make money. Everytime someone brings up the (gulp!) $7 boat ride at Perrine (and it is much cheaper if you buy in bulk, btw) there is a whiny post about how they can make $3-4000 on memorial day, or whatever.

SO FU(KING WHAT!!!!?????

"waaa waaa, they bought a new boat, waa waa, and I am now $140 poorer because of their ridiculous prices, waa waa waa!"

SHUT THE FU(K UP YOU WHINY BITCHES

People in this world need to make money. Beyond the break even point. If they happen to make money doing something they like doing, more power to them. If I pay them to help me do something I like and they like getting paid by me to do something THEY, like, even more power to them. If you can't exist at more than a break even level, sorry about that, but that is your damn problem.

You only need concern yourself with one thing. Are you willing to pay the fee to enjoy yourself?

IT IS NONE OF YOUR FU(KING BUSINESS HOW MANY OTHER PEOPLE PAY THE FEE, WHAT THE AGGREGATE PROCEEDS ARE, WHERE THE MONEY GOES, OR HOW MUCH PROFIT IS MADE. DON'T LIKE IT? STAY HOME.

Are you guys the type of people that go back into McDonalds and complain that one of your 20 piece chicken mcnuggets is under-weight? You sure friggin sound like you are.

FYI I am NOT rich. I am NOT affiliated with B&D or BD. I actually do work with the SEC from time to time, and am familiar with financial reporting requirements of small businesses, so I am as financially anal as they come. However, as non-public entities, these folks have NO LEGAL (or even moral) requirement to show you whiny fu(ks their books unless you are a board member or shareholder. If you ain't one of them, then pay your money, shut your goddamn goo gobblers, and enjoy the benefits that $7, or $60 gets you.

Just because you live out of a 1989 Dodge minivan, don't begrudge people their right to make a buck, even if it is off you.

[guest]

hey ##### the permit for bridge day from the nps requires that it be not for profit, suck on that biatch

[guest]

HA HA HA Ha....HE HE HE HE! I can't stop laughing over that one. Let's see who all is involved in BD...the city, state and government. They all get money from this. You're only kidding yourself..not for profit.

I really can't stop laughing over that one. :7

[guest]

It is not a laughing matter. And your assumptions are not exactly correct. Yes, the City, and State are involved in Bridge Day, but the City Government does not make money from Bridge Day, it costs them money to manage the event, DOT, Cops, monitors, etc., etc. The State Government is also involved, but it costs them money too, DOT, Cops, etc., etc. Who does make money? The local businesses, like hotels, restaurants, gas stations, markets, etc., etc. Also, the vendors who set up along the road by the bridge, they make money too, but they have to pay a fee to have their vendor slot. Now the last people to mention are the BASE jumpers. They have to get a SPECIAL permit from the NPS to land at Fayette Station. With all such permits given by the NPS, liability insurance is required. Bridge Day is an exception to that rule. Part of the stipulations for the Bridge Day permit are that the insurance will be waived, providing that the (BASE jumper) entity responsible for the permit is not for profit.
I wonder if Troy knows that..........

[guest]

You might have me there. If they make a profit that they are legally prohibited from keeping, then yes, lets break out the tar and feathers. That amounts to fraud, and even if the NPS one of the victims, it is still bad. Given those circumstances, I would bet that they may even be legally responsible to provide a set of financials showing the use of funds, since the work was performed "in the public domain", or words to that effect. I was probably wrong when it comes to BD.

However, the main point of my post was that people suck. And I was really more focusing on the B&D aspect, since I could give a rat's butt about BD. So with regards to B&D and their boats, everyone should still SHUT THE FU(K UP!!!!

Question. Are you really more concerned that the BD organizers may be violating some BS NPS rule, or that the organizers are making a buck off you?

However, like the rest of the "system", I would bet there are some good loopholes that enable "not for profits" to legally make an extra buck. For example, what does a "real world" NFP do if they take in more cash than is needed to cover expenses? Do they give it back? No, it would probably remain as retained earnings and hopefully be used to lower costs the next year, which is a different thing entirely from the organizers pocketing it. Idaknow, I know zip about NFPs, someone correct me.

[guest]

There are a couple things to be concerned about. The whole deal is a big fat mess. The jumpers are expected to show up and provide the show, AND pay to do it. For several years now, jumpers have been hassling the Bridge Day BASE organizers for financial records. The only people who have the right, (albeit once again unfair), is the Bridge Day Commission, and once again due to a STIPULATION. I agree, the BASE organizers should be allowed to make money, from me too. The NPS rule is BS. But what's the surprize, all NPS rules regarding BASE jumping are BS. And all of this has nothing to do with B&D at the Perrine. They are a private business, and making money is the American way. Yes, people suck, especially BASE jumpers. Selfish, self rightious, ego maniacs, the list goes on. The more jumpers I meet, the more I like my dog.

[guest]

everyone sucks except for you and me.

[d-dog]

Hey now! Leave the Dog out of this ok?

Peace,

D-d0g
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