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Old 01-30-2012, 07:06 PM
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Default A Lot of Jumpers Lately......

My wife works at the local firehouse and just texted me that there's another jumper on the bridge right now.

Allegedly there's a "blackout" on reporting these incidents to avoid encouraging copycats.
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Old 01-30-2012, 07:25 PM
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My sister is a nurse at AA general and she confirms the same about keeping it quiet. Main reason is not to give someone who feels so down and out any ideas about a final pitstop atop the BB. Very sad when someone feels such hopelessness.
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Old 01-30-2012, 09:14 PM
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someone with the SHA once told me it was about 1/week avg. i had a good friend that did it from key bridge. marine, ladysman, smart, funny. 20 plus years later i still miss him and wonder why.
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Old 01-31-2012, 03:12 PM
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Christmas Credit Card bills coming in, I'd jump too.....
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Old 01-31-2012, 05:26 PM
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I've heard on average - about 15 people jump off the bay bridge each year.

You are correct - news does keep it very quiet. I bet if they showed how mangled a body is after falling from that height - might prevent 1-2 suicides.

There are " last resort " phones near the center of the bridge - you know there must be a lot of people who jump to put the phones there.

Suicide is awful. Lost two good friends , they just could not handle a bunch of little problems.
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Old 01-31-2012, 06:51 PM
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My wife is an EMT at the local firehouse and went to the call AFTER the jump. Seems that an MTA cop somehow got half his body overboard and banged up his leg a bit. Probably scared the crap out of him.

It's a selfish act for sure, but it's ten times worse when you do it in a way that endangers so many others.


I wonder if my family will actually scatter my ashes up and down the bay like I want......
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