. >> reporter: david goodman can't believe the woman jumped from the 500 foot weta tower. police say around 10:30 wednesday night a group of five people scaled the to youer to base jump, a thrill seeking sport. the first jumper was a 48-year-old woman from connecticut. her parachute got stuck in a tree. then she unclipped it and fell to the ground suffering serious injuries. >> every single one of them has been charged with trespassing because they climbed the tower without permission of weta. >> base jumping has become an increasingly popular sport with people taping their leaps and putting them on youtube. >> that has to be a pretty stupid stunt, no matter what age you are. what with all the trees around here. >> i was thinking, wow, i've never seen certainly like this in my neighborhood before and probably not likely to see it any time soon either. >> that woman is still in the hospital. you heard that woman say it was a pretty foolish stunt. one of the reasons is that she could have landed on these power lines right here and killed herself. she's still in the hospital