Niagara Falls couple may have captured Daredevil Kirk Jones final moments on camera

YOU SHOULD CALL D-DISTRICT HEADQUARTERS AT 851-4413. A NIAGARA FALLS COUPLE BELIEVES THEY MAY HAVE CAPTURED ON CAMERA- THE LAST FEW MOMENTS DAREDEVIL KIRK JONES WAS ALIVE... POLICE BELIEVE JONES WAS TRYING TO GO OVER NIAGARA FALLS IN AN INFLATABLE BALL ...BUT DIDN'T SURVIVE. NEWS 4'S MARISSA PERLMAN TELLS US WHAT THE COUPLE SAW FROM THEIR BALCONY....MARISSA? YOU MAY REMEMBER JONES MADE NATIONAL HEADLINES IN 2003 WHEN HE PLUNGED OVER THE FALLS WEARING JUST HIS CLOTHES. HE WAS THE FIRST PERSON TO SURVIVE DOING THIS. PARKS POLICE BELIEVE THIS WAS PART OF A SECOND STUNT - THIS TIME INVOLVING BRINGING A BOA CONSTRICTOR INSIDE AN INFLATABLE BALL AND GOING OVER THE FALLS. HOW EXACTLY HIS DEATH HAPPENED IS STILL A MYSTERY- BUT PEGGIE AND RON BASTIAN SAY THEY WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW WHAT THEY SAW: IT WASN'T WHAT PEGGIE AND RON BASTIAN EXPECTED TO SEE OVER THEIR MORNING COFFEE... ((I THOUGHT SOMEBODY WAS CRAZY BUT I THOUGHT JUST A BALL A HUGE BALL I DIDNT CONSIDER THERE WAS SOMEBODY IN IT AT THAT MOMENT)) THEIR APARTMENT OVERLOOKS THE RAPIDS OF NIAGARA FALLS. ON APRIL 29TH- THEY SAW AT LEAST TWO MEN UNLOADING AN 8-FOOT INFLATABLE BALL FROM A TRAILER. ((THERE WERE TWO MEN ABSOLUTELY POSITIVELY)) THE MEN AND THE BALL DISAPPEARED OUT OF VIEW FOR JUST A FEW MOMENTS BEHIND A TREE. THEY THEN SAW JUST THE BALL FLOATING DOWNSTREAM. THATS WHEN PEGGIE CAPTURED THIS PICTURE AND POSTED IT ON FACEBOOK- LOOKING FOR ANSWERS ((NOBODY HAD ANY REAL IDEA WHAT IT WAS)) THEN WEEKS LATER, JONES BODY WAS FOUND ((WE HEARD THAT THEY FOUND THE BODY, AND THAT THEY PULLED SOME KIND OF A BALL OUT OF THE WATER- THATS WHEN WE SAID OH MY GOD THATS THE BALL WE SAW GOING IN THE WATER!! THATS THE FIRST WE WOULD EVER DREAM THAT ANYBODY WAS IN THAT BALL)) THE BASTIONS IMMEDIATELY CONTACTED PARKS POLICE AFTER LEARNING THERE WAS A CONNECTION TO THE PICTURE THEY TOOK- ((THEY HAD THEORIES ABOUT HOW HE'D BEEN IN IT BUT GOT OUT OF THE FALLS WE DONT KNOW ABOUT ANYTHING FOR SURE ITS A MYSTERY)) ((ITS PART OF HISTORY AND HOPEFULLY SOMEBODY WOULD NOT DO THAT AGAIN)) THE SNAKE HASN'T BEEN FOUND, THOUGH AN EMPTY SNAKE CAGE WAS FOUND IN JONES' PARKED VAN. POLICE DON'T KNOW WHETHER JONES FELL OR CLIMBED OUT OF THE BALL BEFORE REACHING THE BRINK. BUT THEIR INVESTIGATION INTO

Channel: WIVBTV

Views: 166,235

Keywords: local, news, video

Id: dCKQKIR6V90

Length: 2min 40sec (160 seconds)

Published: Wed Jul 05 2017