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Parachutes off Twisted Tower

Turning Torso photo oresundnetEarly on Friday morning, an Austrian extreme sports fanatic jumped from a helicopter and landed on top of Sweden’s tallest building, Malmö’s 190-meter tall apartment building, Turning Torso, switched parachutes, then leaped off the skyscraper.

According to “The Local”, Newspaper in English, the base jumper later transpired to be Austrian adventurer Felix Baumgartner. Police received a call a half hour later at 7 am, but Baumgartner had made the jump at 6 am. By the time the police were alerted he had hopped on the back of a waiting motorcycle that sped him away to a boat upon which he vanished.The real estate owner of Turning Torso, HSB, did not approve of this dangerous venture.
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