Golden Gate Bridge Jumpers

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KALYN

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Mr. Samos said:
I own this documentary. Weird because I watched it 2 nights ago. Apparently in this documentary, a jump happened every 15 days. I think the craziest section of this documentary, besides the footage of the jumps, was Kevin Hines. His story is incredible, it's so insane.
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Will you link it up for me...? I'll return the favor of course..

.. holla @ me via PM.. :)
 
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They stopped counting in 1995.

Wikipedia said:
The Golden Gate Bridge is a notorious site for suicide. The official suicide count ended in 1995 when the number approached 1,000. In the eight years preceding 2003, there was an average of one suicide jump every two weeks, which brought the unofficial total to over 1,300 suicides.[18] Until the official count was discontinued, suicide locations were officially documented according to which of the bridge's 128 lamp posts the jumper was nearest to when he or she jumped.

There were 34 confirmed bridge jump suicides in 2006, in addition to four jumpers whose bodies were never recovered and various unwitnessed deaths that appeared to be suicides but could not be confirmed. The California Highway Patrol removed seventy apparently suicidal people from the bridge that year. [19] Currently, it is said that a person jumps off the Golden Gate Bridge every 15 days.[5]

The 220 foot (67 m) fall from the bridge takes four seconds and jumpers hit the water at 75 miles per hour (120 km/h). As of 2006, only 26 people are known to have survived the jump.[20] Those who do survive always strike the water feet first and most suffer multiple internal injuries and broken bones. One young man, John Kevin Hines, survived a jump off the bridge in 2000, although the impact broke his back and shattered multiple vertebrae.[21]
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This is from Wikipedia. Kevin Hines is in the documentary. It doesn't show any footage of his jump, because it was in 2000, the film wasn't even an idea then I would imagine, but they included him IN the film after they shot it, same with everyone else in the film, they had to FIND these people's families and interview them. Not only that, but these people's families didn't even know the film makers captured the suicides on tape until after when they watched the documentary. Most of them were glad they participated, suprisingly.
 
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Now with the above being said, could you imagine watching footage of your son or daughter or cousin or friend jumping off the GGB? Crazy isn't it.

On a brighter note, the filming and the photography in this film is absolutely beautiful.
 
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Mr. Samos said:
Now with the above being said, could you imagine watching footage of your son or daughter or cousin or friend jumping off the GGB? Crazy isn't it.
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... I cant even imagine...

When I was in grade school... 4-5th grade .. there were two kids I had known up until then that committed suicide... but I dont know that as an adult anyone close to me has...
 
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BAYTION WIDE said:
my teacher was tellin me that one person survived the fall and they interviewed em in that documentary. people are crazy as fuck
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Yeah, Kevin Hines.

I'm not going to tell his story, because that would ruin it for those who want to see the film but, it's mind blowing.

Everyone who jumped and landed feet first though, have survived, as far as statistics and counts go. More than ONE person has survived the fall, they only showcased ONE person in the documentary though, and I'd imagine because his jump was fairly recent in times, and he is a public speaker, teen awareness type guy now, who goes around and speaks to teenagers and all that.
 
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supavillain said:
how do they know when someones gonna jump though? im talking about the dudes with the cameras, do they just stake out and try to get lucky?
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My bad I read this wrong. Yeah they just filmed the bridge and all the activity on it for a year straight. They had a camera crew at one end and a crew at the other, in the film you can actually see across through the bridge to the hills on the other side, there is a guy always standing there, that's a film maker.
 
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supavillain said:
damn, so they only caught one on tape? props to whoever ends up posting this movie
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No dude! The film makers captured footage of 23 of 24 known suicides that occurred in one year. The footage in this thread is one of the jumpers who was featured in the film, and his family and friends are interviewed, I must say, the footage of this guy, is insane, it's the last jump featured in the film and I think it's the only jump where they actually were able to follow it all the way down, most of the time the camera man has to jump on the phone and call 911, no joke.

Anyways, I'll be uploading the movie, so all of you can watch it, keep updated.
 
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