Minneapolis (AP) — A man who fell or jumped from a Minneapolis overpass Sunday night landed on an open-top convertible. The State Patrol says the unidentified man died at the scene Sunday night. The driver of the convertible and a passenger weren't hurt. The incident happened on the Franklin Ave. bridge over Interstate 35W. Really? Imagine driving the convertable and a guest shows up in your back seat
Oh man, I remember when someone did this just a few years back down in Lakeville on 35. It's a shame that they have to be so selfish on taking their own life by traumatizing someones life.
when I ran a youth group back in Australia I had a teenage girl commit suicide that I was close to her and her family.. sad
this happend to a highschool classmate 2 weeks before school started she jumped off the 35w and 50th street bridge into on comming traffic.
All I could think when I read that article was "damn, good timing", and envisioned the scene from Da Vince code where they jump from the bridge onto the cube van. Its sad (for the family) but honestly, grow a set, there is nothing in your life bad enough to warrant suicide. Its amazing this person didn't cause any innocent loss of life.
What about the people driving the car? I mean sure they were physically unharmed but what about emotional distress? What can you do when you watched someone kill them selves by hitting your car. I mean that's gotta do some damage to them...
There are other factors besides just growing a set. Chemical imbalances and other depression issues can effect different people in different ways.. before you tell someone to grow a pair try walking a mile in their shoes... you don't know what was going on in their life. Selfish yes it was but saying he doesn't have an balls i would re think that statement
There is no such thing as a dumb question...just dumb people that jump off bridges. I deal with this bs every day, its tireing and annoying.
I'm sure xBrian and Brian Shorten will understand my following comments for the large part. I witnessed and first responded a suicide last year, via rifle. Myself and one other Marine on the line were qualified to assist the safety corpsman after the fact. You react and try to treat them, but after the training releases its grip and they are done, you get angry. Maybe it was just the reaction we had, but I was livid. I didn't feel sad about it until I saw his family at the memorial. You leave a hell of a mess to clean up, not only in the physical sense. In our case I suppose its a different reaction from within a different culture. I suppose anyone that commits suicide has balls. Thats probably the wrong term. It takes a set to kill yourself, but it takes a bigger set to put others above yourself. Its a complete waste of life. My dad was an EMT in mpls for three years. He moved into a business field after scraping too many people off the pavement from bridge jumps. Chemical imbalance or not, no sympathy from this guy.
I didn't see what xBrian posted, but I'm sure I was probably in the same mindset as he is. Like Jack said, we've probably got a much different outlook on this. When it's something that you've dealt with repeatedly, you end up with a much blunter outlook and a healthy gallows humor. It's a coping mechanism. Responding to something like that sticks with you, it doesn't matter how long you've been on the job. I've seen both sides of the issue. I've had six friends of mine who've committed suicide over the years. Some of them there were warning signs that we missed, some there weren't. One may have been related to medication he was taking for Lymes Disease. The first couple friends I lost, I remember being sad at first, but then the anger set in over how selfish the act was. After that, my overriding emotion when it happened was anger. It is an extremely selfish act, but usually done by someone who feels that it's the only choice they have left.
