by Jon Ferguson

Created on: December 09, 2011   Last Updated: December 12, 2011

He opened his parachute the moment he cleared the roof parapet.  The mirrored glass and pebbly stone raced past.  Inside folks ran to windows and pointed at his colorful canopy gliding between the man made massifs. 

He steered the chute with lines that went to each side of him.  He turned to soar down another urban canyon of levels and levels of windows.  The city wind funneled keenly between the skyscrapers and buffeted him.  Briefly he found himself over a sunlit plaza.  The heated concrete created a torrent of rising air that made him actually rise a hundred feet.

The gain in altitude was an unexpected thrill, like hitting a steep incline in a roller coaster.  But going up changed his glide path and he had to swerve down another path between structures.  His planned landing zone and the waiting getaway car were now two blocks from him.

Somewhere a police watch sergeant was being told of the man who illegally jumped off a building.  But that doesn't matter what matters is 5th avenue, a river of iron and noise and rapids made of city buses.  Just seconds before he had been a thousand feet in the air now the end ride is near.  Watch out for THAT bu...

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