#6. If you work at the Golden Gate Bridge long enough you have probably seen at least one person go over the outer rail, heard a splash from someone hitting the water, or seen the body of an unfortunate jumper floating in the bay; but to witness an entire jump is a rare occurrence. During the four seconds fall, the body will travel the 240-250 feet at 75-80 mph, ending with a bone shattering impact of 15,000 pounds per square inch. wikipedia, He jumped off the golden gate bridge and lived to tell about it to help others, Engineering professor Natalie Jeremijenko, as part of her Bureau of Inverse Technology art collective, created a Despondency Index by correlating the Dow Jones Industrial Average with the number of jumpers detected by Suicide Boxes containing motion-detecting cameras, which she claimed to have set up under the bridge. Had he already proposed to her somewhere else and she refused leaving him depressed enough to contemplate a jump? In her free time, she enjoys hikes, skiing and a good Brooklyn bagel. 23 Dramatic Golden Gate Bridge Suicide Statistics The CHP estimates that with the help of cameras and volunteers, at least 80-90% of people intending to jump are prevented from doing so, but sometimes all the training in the world is not enough, and just being yourself and lending an ear to someone in distress can be the remedy. Once again, I scan the sidewalk just in case she is out there, still no sign of anyone coming through the gloomy darkness. Some of these people rationalized that if a person wants to jump, let them. As I get closer, he appears to be in his early twenties, unkempt, shivering from the cold, and nervous. The rider had no means of turning the bike, no control over his speed, and could not stop the bike if he had to. We desire to be indulged and shocked by reality TV and fake news. I jump in the scooter where my co-workers are still waiting, and we head in for break. Bridge officials are sympathetic to the grief that families of suicide victims endure. Others are pedaling their rental bikes up and down the sidewalk trying to stay upright as they weave their way through the sidewalk traffic. The number of deaths is considerably higher if counting those who jumped at night that went unrecorded. Rumor has it the low rail height can be attributed to bridge designer Joseph Strauss being only five feet tall. After Marilyn jumped, her father followed her over. There is the poor soul whose hat blows off, followed by a quarter mile chase down the sidewalk each time reaching for the hat as it blows another ten feet away. Jumpers | The New Yorker By 2012 the unofficial count exceeded 1,600 (in which the body was recovered or someone saw the jump) and new suicides were occurring about once every two weeks, according to a San Francisco Chronicle analysis. Watch the latest videos on TomoNews US! The answer came over the bridge radio. Suicide jumps are obviously random. Decedent was witnessed to jump from the Golden Gate Bridge to the bay waters below.
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