Ever witness a suicide?

[StarsFan4Life]

So I was coming into work yesterday a bit late (around 9:45am) and witnessed this as I work right at this bridge:

http://www.wfaa.com/sharedcont...umperfolo.41e8d9d.html

Talk about watching something in slow motion and not being able to help in any way possible.

 

[rasczak]

sad.

 

[CraKaJaX]

I saw almost the exact same thing ~2 years ago while I was in Florida. A man who slit his wrist in attempts for suicide, failed... so he drove to the overpass of I-4 in Lake Mary and jumped. The paper the next day approximated that he bounced off 9-10 cars before he even hit the pavement... and for those who don't know I-4, cars are doing at least 75 MPH. I was exiting off to Lake Mary and saw him jump while I was on the exit ramp. Was weird to say the least.

 

[Buttzilla]

damn

 

[imported_apocalypse]

Thats horrible..

 

[Ns1]

n/m

lack of empathy ftl

 

[TallBill]

Shitty

 

[geno]

n/m ... my post might start something which could derail this thread

 

[anxi80]

no, but i remember seeing the los angeles freeway suicide on tv in '98.

 

[imported_apocalypse]

Originally posted by: geno

Originally posted by: CraKaJaX
The paper the next day approximated that he bounced off 9-10 cars before he even hit the pavement...

!!!!Insensative moment coming up...avert your eyes if you have thin skin!!!!

lol @ the thought of a corpse cartwheeling over passing cars

rag doll physics?

 

[CraKaJaX]

Originally posted by: geno
n/m ... my post might start something which could derail this thread

Yea, there was actually a couple of interviews with the people who's cars he hit. One guy didn't even know that a bloody rag doll bounced out the back of his truck. He got to work and was listening to the radio and heard about it, and then one of his employees asked what the fuck he killed in the back of his truck.... LOL.

 

[DVad3r]

Did not see them commit the act but I saw the after effects one time. It was downtown, some woman jumped from a 20 + storey building. She was pretty fat too so the splatter was crazy and all over the sidewalk, there was literally nothing left of her, just a blob. It's sad that some peoples lives come to a stage where they don't want to live anymore

 

[imported_Imp]

Idiots. Do it in your tub and leave everyone else out.

 

[PepePeru]

that was the exit to my friend's place.

 

[geno]

Originally posted by: apocalypse

Originally posted by: geno

Originally posted by: CraKaJaX
The paper the next day approximated that he bounced off 9-10 cars before he even hit the pavement...

!!!!Insensative moment coming up...avert your eyes if you have thin skin!!!!

lol @ the thought of a corpse cartwheeling over passing cars

rag doll physics?

Oh well, my ninja edit didn't work. Yeah, ragoll physics is what's going through my mind right now.

 

[moshquerade]

I have never been a witness to a suicide and I hope I never will be.

It's true though that things tend to slow down during traumatic situations like that. I recently witnessed an old lady fall flat on her face after coming out of bank. I saw her losing her balance and it seemed in slo-mo. Unfortunately I couldn't get to her until after the fact.

 

[randay]

Originally posted by: moshquerade
I once shot a man in Reno just to watch him die.

fixed.

 

[moshquerade]

Originally posted by: randay

Originally posted by: moshquerade
I once shot a man in Reno just to watch him die.

fixed.

waaaaaaaaait, a minute. :laugh:

 

[TallBill]

Originally posted by: moshquerade
I have never been a witness to a suicide and I hope I never will be.

It's true though that things tend to slow down during traumatic situations like that. I recently witnessed an old lady fall flat on her face after coming out of bank. I saw her losing her balance and it seemed in slo-mo. Unfortunately I couldn't get to her until after the fact.

You pushed her didn't you?

 

[slsmnaz]

I watched a man jump off a bridge a few years ago. We talked to the police and they said the bridge was not technically high enough to kill you from the impact and that most got stuck in the soft dirt of the river and drowned. Sad to watch the divers come and pull him up.

 

[moshquerade]

Originally posted by: TallBill

Originally posted by: moshquerade
I have never been a witness to a suicide and I hope I never will be.

It's true though that things tend to slow down during traumatic situations like that. I recently witnessed an old lady fall flat on her face after coming out of bank. I saw her losing her balance and it seemed in slo-mo. Unfortunately I couldn't get to her until after the fact.

You pushed her didn't you?

No...

but she is suing and guess who is the only witness? :roll:

 

[Farang]

I saw a jumper once on the Narrows Bridge in Tacoma. He was a fat dude holding onto the railing wearing nothing but shorts and the cops were trying to talk him down. Read in the newspaper the next day he was upset about his wife divorcing him, but eventually did not jump.

My buddy's Dad was fishing in the Narrows and had a body float up next to his boat. He called the Fire Department boat over, it was nearby searching for a guy who had just jumped.

 

[Kyle]

I walked out of my house one morning to see a man hanging from a metal post...guess he was homeless and just decided to hang himself one night...I had seen him around the neighborhood for months before he killed himself. Strange way to start the day

 

[BW86]

sad

 

[polarmystery]

Not too far from my house...

Strange.