Jumpers

[kinetic747]

Travelling to work this morning on the M60 and another incident of someone climbing the fence of a bridge, stopping the traffic in both directions for several hours. There have been several instances of this over the last 12 months and one incident where a woman actually killed herself by jumping from a bridge on the M61. I can think of much easier ways to go if I had the desire so what makes them choose this route? Is this common throughout the country or exclusive to Manchester area?

 

[adolf hamster]

i think presumably it's a common method due to ease of access and the quickness of a successful attempt.

after all not everybody has access to the roof of a skyscraper and nobody wants to be halfway down and think "i don't wanna go".

the issue with poison/hanging etc as highlighted in the late sir terry pratchett's documentary on the subject of assisted suicide is that it's painful when it goes wrong, in his words "i've see what happens when amateurs get it wrong and it's not dignified"

 

[Diddums x]

Manchester

Can't blame them really.

//I was once sat on a train in Holland, remember it like it was yesterday. Train from Hoorn to Purmerend, massive bang, loads of small black debris flying past the windows, train came to a halt. I was young and the only logical conclusion my young brain could come up with was that the train was somehow being hauled by a steam loco and something went bang, causing loads of charcoal to fly past the windows. Two hours later we were let off the train and had to walk to the nearest junction and under the front of the train was a mangled Clio. I only knew it was a Clio because of a wheel trim lying in a field close by. The car was completely unrecogniseable, but then those trains do cruise at 140kph. I was amazed and shocked.

 

[flame696]

I thought this was going to be a thread about clothing how wrong I was!!