Blue-IQ is ours! The look on the car park attendants face said it all. We did all look very suspicious wearing mostly all black and bright blue jumping harnesses, I do have to admit. But when ten jumpers disembark from a bakkie with a mission in mind, nothing will get in our way -- specifically not a security guard. But the worry was always at the back of our minds -- we could get caught doing this and get sent for a night in the cages. This was because what we had set out to do was illegal -- the first unpermitted jump from the Blue IQ towers in Newtown, Johannesburg. And jump it we did. As the sun began to rise over the city, ten black-clad figures sped down the walls of the tower, silent and precise -- except for Bush and Duck who decided that some mid-air acrobatics were called for, raising Dad to call out blasphemies that would have made a sailor blush -- completing what the team had set out to do -- an illegal-to-legal jump of Blue IQ.

We met at the Market Theatre at 3.30am, all skeptical and worried about what was going to take place. Once at the theatre, we harnessed up and got ready to go. Our arrival was met with a look of utter confusion by car park attendants, many of whom I am sure have never seen so much rope in their entire lives. We managed to convince them that we were part of a construction crew, or something like that, and started making our way to the launch point for our jump. Buddha, after walking up what he thought was some thousand -odd stairs, almost gave the whole game away by huffing and puffing so loud that he made most steam trains sound like stealth fighters. Duck, Bush, Giggles and Getz kept up their play fighting antics all the way to the top, giggling and squealing like women do when they are supposed to keep quiet. Dad, Problem Child, Jinx, Crash Test and Pippi-Joller kept their composure all the way to the top -- true examples of real espionage jumpers. Once on top, the jump rigs were put in place and by 4am, we were ready to go -- but mother nature was not ready for us: we had to wait for sufficient light so the jump could be documented on film. So wait we did, for more than an hour. But once the sun had breached the horizon and lit Jo'burg sufficiently, we hit the ropes. All went smoothly, except when Buddha got stuck under the rails (diet, boy, diet!). Ten jumpers made it from the tower top to ground zero in under 15 minutes. Less than 20 minutes later -- and after cutting Crash Test loose from getting stuck while climbing under a fence -- we were all loaded back into the bakkies, laughing and cheering at the success of the jump as we headed back to our meeting point. Blue-IQ is ours! And the cops never knew.... Be fearless.   View video with windows media player or any other aplication that plays windows media files. . The recomended player is windows media player 9. The codec for Windows media player 9 is available below. .................................................................................... Download video media player 9      3.86MB Download video media codec         823 KB .................................................................................... Blue IQ small 3.84  MB medium 7.75  MB