Not one in a million

In November 1988 a couple of men had a very bright idea about jumping off the Kawerau Bridge. On that first day 28 people paid $75 to jump off the bridge. The Dept of Conservation set up a person to liaise with the "crazy men"Since then things for AJ Hackett and Henry van Asch (and I agree with DoC they are crazy, if v rich, men) have made lots of money in many countries and more than a million jumps have been taken. I didn't realise that AJ Hackett had 16 sites in 8 countries

AJ Hackett Bungy branded sites - numbers of jumps since opening

• Kawarau Bridge, Queenstown (43m, 1988) 650,000

• Skippers Canyon, Queenstown (72m, 1989) 150,000

• Cairns, Australia (50m, 1990)475,000

• Normandy, France (61m, 1990) 460,000

• Kuranda, Australia (38m, 1991)10,000

• Heli-bungy, Queenstown (300m, 1993-96) 5000

• United Kingdom (50m, 1993)10,000

• Las Vegas (52m, 1994)250,000

• Kissimmee, Florida (51m, 1994) 100,000

• Bali, Indonesia (47m, 1995)150,000

• The Ledge, Queenstown (47m, 1997) 140,000

• Acapulco, Mexico (50m, 1999)160,000

• Nevis, Queenstown (134m, 1999) 275,000

• Auckland (40m, 2003) 140,000

• Macau (233m, 2006) 80,000

And I have no intention of ever being counted in these numbers!