A Lot of Jumpers Lately......

[Southerly]

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.

[Blakesdad]

Christmas Credit Card bills coming in, I'd jump too.....

[Skip]

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.

[Spot77]

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......

[5th Tuition]

We can scatter them around "Howards Subway"
Good place for a "wake".
5th

[Spot77]

Originally Posted by 5th Tuition

We can scatter them around "Howards Subway"
Good place for a "wake".
5th

If I scattered my ashes around all of my favorite watering holes we'd run out of ashes awfully quick.


But boy I do love Howard's.

If it meant anything, I'd proclaim it to be the official watering hole of cbangler.com.

[Skip]

Few years ago - in fall , a suicide jumper off the bridge almost landed on a fishing boat. No doubt the impact would have killed the guy fishing.


Speaking of scattering ashes - read a cool story.

A diver was cremated and his ashes divided into a dozen jars. His buddies took a jar each time they went to a new dive location and scattered his ashes.

I'm hoping they find big enough chunks of me to cremate - then scatter my ashes into the duct work of strip clubs

[drichitt]

Originally Posted by 5th Tuition

We can scatter them around "Howards Subway"
Good place for a "wake".
5th

Hey Marty...isn't it about time for another get together? I switched over to Coronas recently and want to see if the love affair is still good. Need to pick a night when Skip doesn't have a Scout meeting. Sorry for the hijack

[5th Tuition]

I have no problem setting up another "Howards Subway" meeting. We have TriState this weekend and PSG is coming up around the 18th; how about a meeting after that to compare what we all bought for the coming season?

Maybe someone with a boat that's not winterized will take me to the "secrete spot" before then and we can have some photo's of C/R fish to share at the meeting. (hint, hint)
On one of the TF threads, someone posted the rock and bait are stacked up off the Rappahanook right now. A trip south to PLO may produce in a few weeks. My earliest trolling success during a past warm winter was March 17th (St Patricks Day).
5th (Marty)