Great...someone else has gone off the bridge

William · 2 Jul 2006 at 15:38

Ah win often?

Amp34 · 2 Jul 2006 at 15:59

Is it that regulat an occurance? That is actually quite shocking! :eek:

neil3k · 2 Jul 2006 at 16:02

penski said:
When I worked at BT (further along the river, on the opposite bank), we used to run a book on whether people threatening to jump off the high-level bridge would actually go through with it.

*n

Was that hadrian TSC on melbourne street?

lemonkettaz · 2 Jul 2006 at 16:02

Amp34 said:
Is it that regulat an occurance? That is actually quite shocking!

doesnt it happen at every bridge.

i know the viaduct down bishop always gets the idiots standing on its edges...

some go, most the time they realise what they are doing and come out of their trance

big_white_dog84 · 2 Jul 2006 at 16:06

The Erskine Bridge is a favourite for jumpers in the Glasgow area. The cooncul put up big fences a couple of years ago to stop the jumpers falling into people's gardens / onto roads etc but left the bit over the river unprotected - meaning they are effectively permitting suicide as long as they do it into the river.

Amp34 · 2 Jul 2006 at 16:09

I suppose, but then I dont live near a major river. :confused:

EDIT:

Betting started on why they jumped.

Mine would be a obsessive football fan because England lost.

badgermonkey · 2 Jul 2006 at 16:15

If anyone in Brecon wanted to do that... Well lets just say they've got a long drive to go anywhere to guarantee anything

Borris · 2 Jul 2006 at 16:22

They never would have jumped if Miles Davies was playing.

I've got a bit of De-Phazz on at the moment.

No jumpers near me.

(Or bridges, for that matter.)

penski · 2 Jul 2006 at 16:55

neil3k said:
Was that hadrian TSC on melbourne street?

Swingbridge House - right next door to Lloyds on t'quayside.

*n

Maz · 2 Jul 2006 at 19:08

When I used to work in Gateshead, used to get a few of them on the Tyne Bridge.

Inconsiderate ******** used to take me an hour longer to get home after the diversion through town.

Gothic Draconia · 2 Jul 2006 at 19:12

Silly question i know but how do these jumpers die when jumping into a river?

Is it the impact from height into the now concrete hard water or is it the fact that they know they can not swim and so drown? :confused:

Morba · 2 Jul 2006 at 21:06

go live near a decent suicide spot, clifton suspension bridge looks good. plenty of people jump from there!

Chris [BEANS] · 2 Jul 2006 at 21:14

Gothic Draconia said:
Silly question i know but how do these jumpers die when jumping into a river?

Is it the impact from height into the now concrete hard water or is it the fact that they know they can not swim and so drown?

Dont really know but i reckon hitting the water from such a height will break the odd bone and at least knock em sparko. If they're lucky it's broken neck time, if not its drowning.

Happy to be corrected though.

_-J-_ · 2 Jul 2006 at 21:16

Gothic Draconia said:
Silly question i know but how do these jumpers die when jumping into a river?

Is it the impact from height into the now concrete hard water or is it the fact that they know they can not swim and so drown?

Think its a combination of both, i mean the impact would probably break bones, so therefore cant swim. Or they go so deep that by the time they try and get to the surface they have drowned.

The distance from the Redheugh bridge is pretty far like!

Amleto · 2 Jul 2006 at 21:36

going at 30mph(?) or whatever whilst water skiing - if you fall over, you bounce. I know the angle of incidence is totally different, but I would bet the decceleration involved would spark anyone out, and brake more than one or two bones.

Wossi · 2 Jul 2006 at 21:56

penski said:
We just ran Yes or No.

Then times.

Yes - what time they jump (to the nearest 5 minutes).

No - what time they get bundled in the back of a paddy wagon and carted off (again, to the nearest 5 minutes).

*n

Reminds me of the Monty Python Sketch with the 2 bolkes in the office, 1 trying to get a person to jump the other asking him not to dude to a bet

iain.turner · 2 Jul 2006 at 22:06

Penski- you live in them new houses in Dunston?

LukeManUK · 2 Jul 2006 at 22:15

G|mp said:
Its a bit warm for jumpers aint it?

You win the internet

Ricochet J · 2 Jul 2006 at 22:57

iain.turner said:
Penski- you live in them new houses in Dunston?

No he doesn't. My binocilars tell a different story.

Luke · 2 Jul 2006 at 23:34

Very inconsiderate.

Much like those who throw themselves under trains during the morning rush hour. Buggers then make everyone hang around for hours while they are scraped off the tracks.
Why can't they at least have the common courtesy to do it off peak... :mad: