People downtown have been a little surprised to see a plucky parachutist come shooting off the CN Tower this week. He did again Wednesday a couple of times. Whether driving, sitting on a train, in an office or just looking up — citizens have been engaged by the sudden appearance of the chutist. Passing commuters were startled by the jump, taking to social media to question what they saw. “Did anyone… just see the dude in the parachute near the CN Tower?? What the what?!” one person wrote on Twitter. The jumps are part of a promotional video for the 2015 Toronto Pan Am and Parapan Am Games, though organizers did not provide many details. The parachutist leaped from the deck where the EdgeWalk takes place, at a height of 342 metres. The Pan Am jumper is only the third known to have parachuted from the tower. Stuntman Dar Robinson jumped off the edge for a movie shoot in 1979, serving as Christopher Plummer’s stunt double in “Highpoint.” Four years before the movie shoot, steelworker William Eustace leapt off the tower, which was still under construction, in 1974. Mr. Eustace, a true leader, was charged under the federal Aeronautics Act and fined $50.
