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If you’ve ever felt like jumping off the top of the Stratosphere after losing all your money in Las Vegas, you’ll soon get the chance — without the messy conclusion.

Opening in April, the $3.6-million SkyJump thrill ride atop the 1,149-foot-tall Stratosphere Las Vegas Hotel & Casino will feature a controlled free fall similar to skydiving or base-jumping.

Connected by a cable to a high-speed “descender” machine, riders wearing jumpsuits and harnesses will leap from the edge of the observation tower toward a landing platform 855 feet below. Guide wires will keep jumpers from slamming into the tower’s cement columns.

Cost per jump: $100, which includes a short safety lesson.

SkyJump will join a trio of thrill rides atop Stratosphere: the X-Scream teeter-totter, the Insanity spinning arm and the Big Shot drop tower. The High Roller coaster closed in 2005.

A similar SkyJump attraction in Auckland, New Zealand, shown in the video above, features an 11-second, 629-foot drop. cite

Liv wrote:Again... that's what we need here locally....

SouthernFriedInfidel wrote:

Liv wrote:Again... that's what we need here locally....

Bungee jumps off the Jefferson-Pilot building over Elm St? That would rock!