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Is Laguna Beach Mystery Jumper Entertainment or Accident Waiting to Happen?

The Laguna Beach pool jumper 8Booth is either phenomenally lucky, a new age dare devil, or waiting to join the Darwin Awards. You decide.

LAGUNA BEACH, CA — You may have seen him running along paths and trails of Laguna Beach, GoPro at the ready to capture his next stunt.

8Booth, the mystery dare devil who uses a GoPro camera to film his jumps from high places into seemingly impossible circumstances, is walking a fine line with the law.

His latest dare devil feat of jumping off a tower in Newport Beach into the harbor below shows him landing in the water by inches, making all who follow his Youtube Channel wonder if he will survive his next attempt.

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Beginning with a series of trespassing videos where he scales walls and jumps into the ocean or swimming pools of exclusive Laguna Beach hotels, he now has branched off to even scarier tactics. This Newport Harbor 129 foot jump into the water


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The number of viewings on his channel show that the less likely he will make the jump, the more views he receives. This Newport Beach Harbor jump rated over one million views in just a few day's time while his tamer Laguna Beach jumps into swimming pools or into the ocean languish in the mere tens of thousands of views.

Whether 8Booth is crazy, genius or has a death wish, you be the judge.

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