New film shows drama of Golden Gate Bridge suicides

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By Adam Tanner
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Every few weeks, someone climbs over the railing of San Francisco's famed Golden Gate Bridge and jumps to their death at one of the highest-profile suicide sites in the world.

Local media rarely report the deaths, and few people have seen the dramatic suicides -- until now. Filmmaker Eric Steel's new film "The Bridge," which shows six suicides, premiered recently at New York's Tribeca and San Francisco's film festivals.
Steel, 42, set up camera crews at both sides of the bridge that connects San Francisco to the Marin Headlands. They monitored bridge activity during all daylight hours of 2004 and recorded 23 suicides.


http://in.news.yahoo.com/060504/137/640e4.html

They claim they also prevented quite a few.

[Wyatt_Junker]

I would tie in the jumpers in Frisco with their first facial lesion sighting. Probably comes as quite a shock at first and then the reality of it sets in and the original glamor of all that anonymous rump pumping wears off.

They probably don't want to do the slow AIDS line dance shuffle. So they do this. I only hope that when they jump they do something creative, a LuGAINis. A spinning jacknife. A whirling 360 degree cannonball. Go out like you mean it.

[BEST45CAL]

They should set up multiple diving boards to make it really spectacular.

I wanna see someone do a Triple Lindy ala Rodney Dangerfield.

http://www.cinemablend.com/images/news_img/1277/1277.jpg

On a side note, they have these telephones out there that connect you to the suicide hotline. Guess they're telling them to jump.

As for being dramatic, this kind of thing is so common out here, that it is akin to someone taking a dump.