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21 September 2007 - The One Where Max takes a ride into the Dangerzone

I've been out of Nutella for the past day and I'm going through withdrawl. Right now I'm pretty sure that my refrigerator is going to eat me. There are very few things in this world that make me cry. Actually, the list is pretty short. Pepper Spray. When Arrested Development got cancelled. And, of course, Brian's Song (But in the third case, my tears essentially act a lubricant). But bungy jumping nearly broke onto the list at #4. Over spring break, we hit up Queenstown, the extreme sports capital of the world (or so it said on its "Welcome to" sign). No visit to Q-Town is complete without facing one of your fears. For our group, that meant bungy jumping off of the Nevis highwire, the tallest jump in the world (134 meters). We had to take a gondola out to the platform. Once firmly there, I looked looked up at the mechanism. It was an intricate system of bungy cords and machinery, yet it still seemed somewhat flimsy to support people jumping off s...