Another jumper on the Itchen bridge

[Gwagon111]

Anyone who needs to go anywhere near the Itchen bridge anytime soon, don't, it's all FUBAR round here at the moment.

[Gwagon111]

I've just been watching out of my bedroom window, with my binoculars. He's just climbed back over onto the bridge. Another time waster .

[normalbloke]

Surely they should shut the river, not the bridge?.......

[martinrpeachey]

normalbloke said:

Surely they should shut the river, not the bridge?.......

Haha, good idea.

Anybody see that vid from Japan (I think) where a jumper had held up traffic for two hours until a motorist climbed up to him, shook his hand and promptly pushed him off? Funny as. Fortunately, police had set up airbags for him to land on.

[sc4589]

Gwagon111 said:

I've just been watching out of my bedroom window, with my binoculars. He's just climbed back over onto the bridge. Another time waster .

You would not believe how many there are we deal with... and I think, out of the tens we have attended, only one's ever actually done it this year.

Long and short of it is, if they're gunna do it, they'll just do it... not just call us and say they're going to. Attention-seeking aholes.

[supertouring]

sc4589 said:

Gwagon111 said:

I've just been watching out of my bedroom window, with my binoculars. He's just climbed back over onto the bridge. Another time waster .

You would not believe how many there are we deal with... and I think, out of the tens we have attended, only one's ever actually done it this year.

Long and short of it is, if they're gunna do it, they'll just do it... not just call us and say they're going to. Attention-seeking aholes.

If you are the one talking them down, I am surprised they all didn't jump

[sc4589]

supertouring said:

sc4589 said:

Gwagon111 said:

I've just been watching out of my bedroom window, with my binoculars. He's just climbed back over onto the bridge. Another time waster .

You would not believe how many there are we deal with... and I think, out of the tens we have attended, only one's ever actually done it this year.

Long and short of it is, if they're gunna do it, they'll just do it... not just call us and say they're going to. Attention-seeking aholes.

If you are the one talking them down, I am surprised they all didn't jump

No, but a considerable amount of time, effort and public money gets spent on it.

If you were going to do it, would you just do it quietly without anyone knowing, or tell literally everyone in the vicinity and see what happens? I know one of them who threatened it, and deal with him quite a lot. There's no way he'll do it, he just does it because he 'gets bored'... in his words.

[Terminator X]

Nasty way to go out apparently, usually involves broken bones etc and drowning!

TX.

[Dolittle]

sc4589 said:

You would not believe how many there are we deal with... and I think, out of the tens we have attended, only one's ever actually done it this year.

Long and short of it is, if they're gunna do it, they'll just do it... not just call us and say they're going to. Attention-seeking aholes.

There are obvious mental health issues here, not many sane people do this type of thing. If you are the one doing the rescuing, you should be ashamed of yourself.

[carpetsoiler]

Dolittle said:

sc4589 said:

You would not believe how many there are we deal with... and I think, out of the tens we have attended, only one's ever actually done it this year.

Long and short of it is, if they're gunna do it, they'll just do it... not just call us and say they're going to. Attention-seeking aholes.

There are obvious mental health issues here, not many sane people do this type of thing. If you are the one doing the rescuing, you should be ashamed of yourself.

Try working with it for a while, and you'll start to get a handle on it. Like I said, the ones with genuine mental health issues tend not to crow about the fact they're doing it. If they want to go, they'll go, and that is utterly tragic when they do. If you read my other post, you'll see the motive for many of them- apparently boredom. Which, to me, is utterly incomprehensible. I'd like to work with the genuine ones, trust me...

[Dolittle]

carpetsoiler said:

Dolittle said:

sc4589 said:

You would not believe how many there are we deal with... and I think, out of the tens we have attended, only one's ever actually done it this year.

Long and short of it is, if they're gunna do it, they'll just do it... not just call us and say they're going to. Attention-seeking aholes.

There are obvious mental health issues here, not many sane people do this type of thing. If you are the one doing the rescuing, you should be ashamed of yourself.

Try working with it for a while, and you'll start to get a handle on it. Like I said, the ones with genuine mental health issues tend not to crow about the fact they're doing it. If they want to go, they'll go, and that is utterly tragic when they do. If you read my other post, you'll see the motive for many of them- apparently boredom. Which, to me, is utterly incomprehensible. I'd like to work with the genuine ones, trust me...

Anyone who thinks its funny to do that type of thing out of boredom surely has mental issues. Thats a nuts thing to do.

[carpetsoiler]

Unfortunately we have dealt with the fallout of a lot of mental health workers being disbanded, and we are seeing this pattern emerging more and more. It's incredibly frustrating. With regards to a few of the 'boredom' ones, they have little else to do... which leaves them with trying to find attention in ever increasingly dramatic ways. I wasn't being intentionally flippant in the first instance, it has the 'boy who cried wolf' effect written all over it... it ends up devaluing the plight of those genuinely in need of help who get overlooked because of the attention seekers. If that makes some kind of sense..?

[Gwagon111]

Last year I was walking over to the bridge pub in Woolston, at about Christmas time. A guy casusaly strolled past me and went over the central spar. He didn't say a word, just went. I thought it was a wind up, but no, he did it . It took about a week for his body to wash up in the marina below.

[carpetsoiler]

Gwagon111 said:

Last year I was walking over to the bridge pub in Woolston, at about Christmas time. A guy casusaly strolled past me and went over the central spar. He didn't say a word, just went. I thought it was a wind up, but no, he did it . It took about a week for his body to wash up in the marina below.

I remember you telling me about that down t'pub! A perfect case in point.

On that note, pint soon?

[Gwagon111]

carpetsoiler said:

I remember you telling me about that down t'pub! A perfect case in point.

On that note, pint soon?

Sounds good .

[HereBeMonsters]

I've never understood why jumping off a bridge kills you though. I've jumped off some really high things into water, sometimes headfirst. I didn't die once.

[Robb F]

HereBeMonsters said:

I've never understood why jumping off a bridge kills you though. I've jumped off some really high things into water, sometimes headfirst. I didn't die once.

Yes but I imagine you were actively trying to not hurt yourself.

[martinrpeachey]

HereBeMonsters said:

I've never understood why jumping off a bridge kills you though. I've jumped off some really high things into water, sometimes headfirst. I didn't die once.

How do you know you didn't die? Some faiths believe that you don't die but flick seamlessly into another existence...

You're more likely to die accidentally falling off a chair than you are deliberately falling off a bridge, statistically.

[Gwagon111]

HereBeMonsters said:

I've never understood why jumping off a bridge kills you though. I've jumped off some really high things into water, sometimes headfirst. I didn't die once.

Usually they break a few limbs and drown.

[y2blade]

Gwagon111 said:

I've just been watching out of my bedroom window, with my binoculars. He's just climbed back over onto the bridge. Another time waster .

Do you have a air rifle?