Woman hurt after jumping 80 feet off Rainbow Falls
Big Island firefighters on Tuesday came to the aid of two women who jumped 80 feet into Wailuku River at Rainbow Falls.
Only one of the two women was injured and had to be taken to Hilo Medical Center after being treated at the scene just after 1 p.m.
Witnesses said the two women, both in their 20s, had been assisted to shore before firefighters arrived.
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Stupidity knows no boundaries.
No warning sign could have helped those women.
agree…they wanted to capture it on youtube
Allie. YouTube? More like iTunes or iDead?
Stupid people will win in court for a lack warning was posted.
Idea for a warning sign. “Warning, jumping 80 feet into shallow waters may be the last thing you ever do.”
I’m sure they will sue because nobody stopped them from jumping 80 feet off the side of the mountain. And some !diot judge will give them millions of tax dollars. It’s nice to pay taxes in Hawaii, isn’t it?
In the VAST majority of cases, the judge isn’t the one awarding millions of dollars. Instead it is a jury of your peers doing it. Don’t blame the judge. Blame society.
Btaim. So Hawaii does have a lottery after all. You just have to get hurt first.
IDIOTS!
Probably the question is why would people who are not experts in the water even attempt that? I’ve been swimming for more than 60 years. I’ve been a lifeguard and an NCAA swimmer. I SCUBA dive regularly as well as swim in the ocean and the pool almost daily. I probably would not jump off that site. (I might have when I was 20 but by definition, 20 year olds don’t know much.) Could her parents have taught her some common sense? My son and dive buddy is applying for SEAL BUDS and I don’t think he would have done it if he wasn’t ordered to do so. No Officer would order them to do it if it wasn’t mission critical.
Bottom Line: What was wrong with her thinking?
Stupidity…which is not an excuse for being held liable for the Firefighters, EMS services, medical treatment costs. I am very familiar with the Big Island and Rainbow Falls is a rather nice tourist attraction…with the being said I give good odds that these young ladies fall into the category of the trail blazers that go out on unmarked trails and need to be assisted by the aforementioned services.
Utterly clueless Millennials. Loser generation.
Not thinking.
Lyrics of a song that says to release your inhibitions.
I was thinking more along the line of Blue Oyster Cult’s “Don’t Fear The Reaper.”
Try jumping off the Seven Sacred Pools bridge on Maui. Just park your car next to it. Walk a few steps, stand on the concrete railing, and jump. No need to hike. Wear a GoPro on your forehead.
wear a dunce cap too
What about the tin foil hat?
write you name on your forehead with a sharpie to help the firefighters tasked to wipe up your mess.
No graffiti on the forehead . That’s abuse of a corpus.
hey but it made a great Facebook post right? thats the important thing
Those moron women are putting are firefighters as risk by being stupid. Should have left them there.
In the old days, prior to the advent of “helicopter parents”, injuries to the young due to stupidity simply filtered out some of the morons of society before they reached adulthood and became a burden to same.
Hey, let’s go easy on these gals. We don’t know where they hail from, and “25 meters” doesn’t sound nearly as high as “80 feet”, now does it?
Agree. Daring and sounds like fun. Because they are young, a little recklessness is okay.
doesn’t matter what measurement you use, it’s still stupid. does 8 stories sound as high as 80 feet? Still sounds too damn high to me.
idiots
It’s not against the law to be an idiot?
Lemmings, pffft!
Heard on the new that there is a sign posted jumping is not allowed but they jumped. LOL
This is the type of situation where the jumpers should be presented an invoice for the rescue.
Darwin was a genius.
Only Nelly can fly like a bird.
She must have been going over 80 MPH upon landing?
Another video playing Milleniall that thought that she was invincible.
Had she hit her head, she would have been seeing a real rainbow.
This is why young adults need the ACA.
Stupid is as stupid does!
She was doing alright going down until she hit bottom.
You understand the rush of a 80 foot jump, times the water pressure of a jet of a thousand gallons of water rushing up your pleasure cavern?
That is a fairly nasty image but not unrealistic!
Were they drunk or high on drugs?
No. They would have just become drowsy, and pass out.
good thing no additional brain damage.
No Brain to damage.
Oops! A good one! Heehee
Quick with the warning signs before she tries 90 feet tomorrow.
All it takes is for one rotten apple to close down the diving at this site for everyone.
Not really a good place to swim or dive.
She must have a angel watching her to have survived such a high free fall.
One of the friends is bound to post a video…can’t wait.
With a friend like that, who needs enemies?
Even the most seasoned of jumpers on the Hilo side do NOT jump Rainbow Falls. This one sounds like the girls could have either been tourist or recent arrivals. Probably UH Hilo students. Everything about the place tells most sensible folks that you should not jump. But they did. Unsuspecting (Maha’oe) people usually find out the hard way. I wouldn’t be surprised if her tail bone is shattered. Very painful lesson.
Only two things fall from the sky. Parachute and bird fertilizer.
Try jumping off the Seven Sacred Pools bridge on Maui. Just park your car next to it. Walk a few steps, stand on the concrete railing, and jump. No need to hike.
There’s a reason why Rainbow Falls is a popular spot to commit suicide, which is what my friend’s mom did back when we were in grade school.
Didn’t she learn what happened to Humpty Dumpty in grade school?