RUBBER BANK?
Waimarino's bouncing entrepreneur A.J. Hackett has been helping about 40 people a day, at $75 each, jump off a Queenstown bridge. The event is a similar operation to the New Sensations "Bungi Symposium" (sic) held at the old Hapuawhenua Viaduct in September. Another area he has surfaced, and resurfaced, and resurfaced in is French television. Hackett features in a French Minolta advertisement where he is seen plummeting from a bridge into Eagle Canyon (Utah, USA). The ad shows him taking a quick snap of a passing eagle on the way down, then placing the camera on a rock at the upside-down-zenith of the dive. Despite Hackett's willingness to put the camera on the rock the film company decided to do it in mock-up for safety reasons. Either way the $500,000 ad has drawn praise from all quarters.
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Waimarino Bulletin, Volume 6, Issue 266, 6 December 1988, Page 1
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139RUBBER BANK? Waimarino Bulletin, Volume 6, Issue 266, 6 December 1988, Page 1
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