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Career Offender (law) and bungee jumping (sh)


Career Offender (law)




under federal sentencing guidelines, a person who (1) is at least 18 years old at the time of the most recent offense; (2) is convicted of a felony that is either a crime of violence or a controlled substance offense; (3) has at least two prior felony convictions of either a crime of violence or a controlled substance offense.





bungee jumping (sh)




Sport in which the jumper falls from a high place with a rubber ("bungee") cord attached both to his or her feet and to the jump site, and, after a period of headfirst free fall, is bounced partway back when the cord rebounds from its maximum stretch.

It traces its roots to the "land diving" practiced on Pentecost Island, Vanuatu, in which divers jump off a high tower, their feet connected to it by a vine whose length is calculated to allow the jumper to fall until his hair just brushes the ground below. The Oxford Dangerous Sports Club, inspired by reports of the Pentecost Island divers, made the first Western bungee jumps, and bungee jumping was first offered commercially to the public in New Zealand in 1988.