Something I Hope I Never Have To Deal With

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I’ve had 2 episodes of interaction with bridge jumping suicidals.

Until they actually ‘jump’ there’s no way of knowing whether they’re seriously looking to end the pain, or whether they’re just attention seekers.

I hate attention seekers.

I have a curiously strange emotion, bordering on affection, for the ones who chose falling from a height to end it all. I can’t explain it, but I spent a few minutes chatting with the last one & she still jumped.

I don’t feel that I failed her !

I do feel for anyone who witnesses it & is not fully mature or 100% stable within their own emotions, I’ve been there & done that, it is not something that I would wish upon another person.

Why do they do it when/where we become involved ?

I wouldn’t say I’m desensitised to it all but living near beachy head reports like this become commonplace. Also my career started driving buses which would see at least 2-3 students/foreigners per summer squashed looking the wrong way crossing the road.

I’m always cautious of people on bridges but mainly for fear of bricks being thrown, not suicide.

m1cks:
I wouldn’t say I’m desensitised to it all but living near beachy head reports like this become commonplace. Also my career started driving buses which would see at least 2-3 students/foreigners per summer squashed looking the wrong way crossing the road.

I’m always cautious of people on bridges but mainly for fear of bricks being thrown, not suicide.

This ^ I always watch people that are stood on them especially kids

Hard thing to say but if they really intend to end their life they will do it, if they hang on for ages talking to samaratins who spend hours trying to talk them down and holding up traffic for hours in the process, especially on the George Washingto Bridge (which is a frequent event) then they do not want to end it in any way, they just want help. Trouble with NYC cops is, they spend all that time convincing the guy that life is worth living and all their troubles will go away one day, then as soon as they step down … Wham, click they are forced to the ground, handcuffed and charged with reckless endangerment :laughing:

Take for instance the Show bomber ‘Richard Reed’ … If he seriously wanted to blow up that plane it would have happened, he was just a looser seeking a bit of attention. All he needed to do was stand in a doorway near the galley or in a toilet and detinate his bomb, to stand there struggling with match after match before some geezer grabbed him was because he was too scared to actually kill himself, when he stepped off the plane in handcuffs the first thing he asked was “Where are the press, and the photographers ?”
He now has a lifetime of rear end injections by some large bloke who likes to call him Florence to think about his short burst of fame :laughing:

My neighbour jumped off a bridge, the ■■■■ ing idiot. He couldn’t be bothered walking all the way to the steps so thought he’d jump onto the grass bank. Being dark he couldn’t see that he wasn’t far enough along. Broke his ankles and various other fractures in his legs.

As for the suicide jumper, not had to deal with that yet, but it is a fact of life that people are willing to go that way. I also don’t want the step-in-the-road-in-front-of-a-lorry suicide either.

feel sorry for the driver,unless jumper jumped onto the trailer,in which case he/she wouldnt have seen it.

David