Video: Base-jumping the Freedom Tower
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That's some rock-solid security they've got at the new World Trade Center in New York.
A group of base jumpers successfully got into the new skyscraper and jumped off it.
http://youtu.be/nz7sxt9xeJE?t=2m46s
One of the jumpers, James Brady, is a former ironworker on the building.
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It actually happened last September but police were unable to figure out who jumped until a New York newspaper carried the names in its edition yesterday. They then turned themselves in.
Another jumper, Andrew Rossig, said the trio was able to slip through a hole in a fence that was covered with nothing but a tarp.
“God forbid it wasn’t somebody else getting in there with real intentions to harm New Yorkers,” he told the New York Daily News.
They say if the video makes any money, they'll donate it to the families of those killed on 9/11.
