"3"^^ . "3"^^ . . "2016-06-19T00:00:00"^^ . "5"^^ . "By day I'm a seemingly normal person but there is this little voice in my head that is always trying to convince me to do wild and stupid things. Then one of my friends complained that they missed out on the SkyJump while in Vegas. Cue the little voice - What's the SkyJump? We're going to Vegas soon. Is it fun? Let's do it!\n\nAfter looking up the SkyJump, I decided I'm crazy and want to do this and convinced my brother to join me. We arrived at The Stratosphere only to see everything but the observation deck was closed due to lightening. A storm was passing close by but would be clear soon so we waited it out. Within about 20 minutes everything was back open.\n\nSince we're jumping off a perfectly good building, we ponied up the $150 to have video evidence that we did the jump. Waiting your turn in the store, you see the live video feed of people jumping. It did nothing to quell my fear. Then it was our turn. After adorning a sexy jumpsuit and shoes, the workers tried their best to cut off the circulation to my torso by tightening the harness to the point where it was hard to breathe. \n\nAfter being checked, it was time for the elevator ride up. And there we waited while people on the observation deck watched all of us idiots prepare to jump off a building. The girl ahead of me jumped and seeing/hearing the massive safety line spool whir like crazy as she jumped was almost enough to do me in. It was my turn and I knew if I hesitated it wouldn't happen so at the end of the countdown I stepped off. Fear went away pretty much immediately and I loved every moment of the 17 second fall.\n\nThe staff were all really awesome. They had a great sense of humor and participated in some joking/heckling of jumpers. They also check the harness twice downstairs and twice upstairs to make sure everything is done properly before the jump. When I finally watched my video (worth the extra money) I decided it could be a drinking game. If I take a sip every time I said \"terrified\" and a shot each time I said \"Oh my God!\" I would be drunk in 3 minutes."^^ . . "5"^^ . .