My wife is out there with my daughter, so I was particularly perturbed. She forgot the cell phone, so I couldn't call her to talk her around it.
She was heading up to baltimore. It will be interesting to hear her story. She hasn't called yet, but if she got where she was going after 12 she might not call. And of course now I'm on the internet and she couldn't call anyway (unless she remembers the cell phone number).
It looks like the overpass is about 20 feet high. I don't know why the don't just drive a bunch of trucks with mattresses underneath and push him off.
I also had a fantasy of being there, jumping out of my car, running toward the guy from below, waving a gun at him, and shouting "get the bleep off the bridge, or I'm going to shoot you, and when you fall down here I'm going to cut you slowly and painfully until you don't recognise yourself."
Sounds like something one of the really macho cop-guys would do before they got suspended, like Riggs or Cobra.
Anyway, I think we are very tolerant of people who are trying to kill themselves. Now, if he yelled that Islam was a terrorist organization, WMAL would insist he be suspended from the bridge :->