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Dot-Commers Working In Suicide Zone
ClickonDetroit ^ | January 26, 2007 | AP

Posted on 01/26/2007 1:44:05 PM PST by ShadowDancer

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1 posted on 01/26/2007 1:44:07 PM PST by ShadowDancer
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To: ShadowDancer

LOL!! Lower the shades.


2 posted on 01/26/2007 1:45:34 PM PST by bill1952 ("All that we do is done with an eye towards something else.")
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To: ShadowDancer

Ban Bridges!


3 posted on 01/26/2007 1:45:55 PM PST by mad puppy ( 2007 is going to be great)
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To: mad puppy

Ban liberals!


4 posted on 01/26/2007 1:47:47 PM PST by JZelle
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To: ShadowDancer

Blame the bridge.

And sue the jumpers' estates for the trauma. Or have a $100,000 fine for public suicide, taken from the estate, and used to compensate the traumatized strangers.


5 posted on 01/26/2007 1:48:51 PM PST by Atlas Sneezed (Your FRiendly FReeper Patent Attorney)
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To: ShadowDancer

"...six emergency phones and 18 signs that read, "Suicidal?" and give the number of a 24-hour crisis line"


Please hold. First available (indian) operator will answer your call in the order it was received.


6 posted on 01/26/2007 1:50:04 PM PST by farlander (Strategery - sure beats liberalism!)
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To: Slings and Arrows
They end up in our parking lot," said Katie Scharer, one of Edwards' co-workers at Cutter & Buck, a sportswear company based in the Adobe complex. "Nobody's ever totally used to it."

Get used to it(?) PING

7 posted on 01/26/2007 1:51:15 PM PST by OSHA (Sarcasm detector overload!)
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To: ShadowDancer

It can be a terrible experience. I worked in Chicago years ago and one morning a crew was out scraping up bits and pieces of someone who had jumped from 60 stories up. The guy was spread over a couple blocks. It took me years to get over that sight.


8 posted on 01/26/2007 1:51:58 PM PST by Tokra (I think I'll retire to Bedlam.)
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To: farlander

On one end of the bridge you have a community with a statue of Lenin and on the other a community of mainly homosexuals..I guess the bridge is a good place for them to end their sorrows.


9 posted on 01/26/2007 1:52:25 PM PST by Oldexpat
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To: ShadowDancer
In Seattle I'm suprised that the solution they tried wasn't free meth, coke and LSD dispensers at either end of the bridge pedestrian walkway.

I'm an authority...I live here!

10 posted on 01/26/2007 1:53:27 PM PST by HardStarboard (The Democrats are more afraid of American Victory than Defeat!)
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To: bill1952

Invest in Kevlar awnings.


11 posted on 01/26/2007 1:54:00 PM PST by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
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To: ShadowDancer

Did the suicides increase after the American Idol auditions?


12 posted on 01/26/2007 1:58:51 PM PST by randog (What the...?!)
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To: ShadowDancer
Clearly, its time to pull out of Seattle entirely.
13 posted on 01/26/2007 2:03:33 PM PST by Thrusher ("There is no peace without victory.")
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To: farlander
Please hold. First available (indian) operator will answer your call in the order it was received.

< Indian accent>Why do you want to kill yourself? You should not do it. You will just screw up your karma and come back as something much worse.< /Indian accent>

14 posted on 01/26/2007 2:14:40 PM PST by KarlInOhio (Samoans: The (low) wage slaves in the Pelosi-Starkist complex.)
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To: ShadowDancer
Wow, that's surely is a lot of jumpers.

Have they got a web cam on the bridge? I'd be happy to keep an eye on things, give the cops a call if someone was boosting the catwalk....
15 posted on 01/26/2007 2:15:03 PM PST by ASOC (The phrase "What if" or "If only" are for children.)
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To: ShadowDancer; phantomworker; Libertina; Clemenza

Shouln't that be "Dot Commies" rather than "Dot-Commers".


16 posted on 01/26/2007 2:17:50 PM PST by Paleo Conservative
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To: ShadowDancer

Set up a web cam!


17 posted on 01/26/2007 2:18:39 PM PST by Glenn (Annoy a BushBot...Think for yourself.)
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To: ShadowDancer; Clemenza
At least one woman, Sarah Edwards, drives on the left side of the street near her office ever since a body landed on the hood of a co-worker's car.


"He's in the car."

18 posted on 01/26/2007 2:21:00 PM PST by Paleo Conservative
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On one end of the bridge you have a community with a statue of Lenin and on the other a community of mainly homosexuals

No, you don't! There is the statue...but Fremont is mostly young families. I live here.

19 posted on 01/26/2007 2:21:50 PM PST by paulat
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To: Glenn
Set up a web cam!

Someone in Las Vegas should take bets on when the next jump will happen.

20 posted on 01/26/2007 2:22:14 PM PST by Paleo Conservative
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