Golden Gate Bridge officials vote for suicide net

Associate Press via San Jose Mercury News ^ | 10 October 2008

[CounterCounterCulture]

Golden Gate Bridge officials vote for suicide net

SAN FRANCISCO — Golden Gate Bridge officials have voted to hang a stainless steel net below the iconic span to stop suicides.

The Golden Gate Transportation District's board of directors voted 14-1...

[CounterCounterCulture]

Hmph. So much for my right to choose (suicide). Now I'll have to go to a back-alley suicide provider. Or maybe jump off the Bay Bridge, but that's not as glamorous.

[Tublecane]

Let ‘em die. This is a waste of money. There’s always a way. How many tall buildings, cars, guns, knives, pills, ropes, and paper bags do they have in San Francisco?

[Seaplaner]

Sounds to me like something that might kill hundreds or more) of innocent shore birds.

Seriously.

[EyeGuy]

I see.

“Oh. You mean I can’t commit suicide off the Golden Gate? Well, I won’t do it then after all.”

Tyoical diseased liberal reasoning.

[DieHard the Hunter]

So now instead of hitting the water and going splat, the suicide will hit a stainless steel mesh and be grated to shreds like a cheese-grater!

Only in San Francisco.

[Domandred]

stainless steel net

Errrmmm...SF decided to cheese grate jumpers instead of drowning them?

[Domandred]

LOL beat me!

[webrover]

If someone jumps and gets injured in that net SFO or the bridge owner will pay bigtime in the lawsuit lottery.

[Rudder]

I recommend that suicide wanna-be’s just lie down in the roadway and let traffic run over them.

[BGHater]

More efficient to shutdown the gay bathhouses.

[JSteff]

“Golden Gate Bridge officials have voted to hang a stainless steel net below the iconic span to stop suicides. “

Is this to nicely dice the suicide wanna bee’s for the sharks below in the bay? I mean someone jumping from higher up on the bridge would just go through... in nicely sized chucks.

[jessduntno]

“Let ‘em die. This is a waste of money. There’s always a way. How many tall buildings, cars, guns, knives, pills, ropes, and paper bags do they have in San Francisco?”

You left out Gavin Newsome - he could kill you with pure smarm.

[InvisibleChurch]

Officials estimate the steel net will cost between $40 million and $50 million. The suicide prevention net will require an environmental review and further study before installation.

Only in liberal land.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

Glad to hear that San Francisco and California are so well off financialy that they have $50 million to spend on this ridiculous nonsense.

[chemical_boy]

electrify the net, cut down on body searches

[doc1019]

Will just force the leapers to leap beyond the net.

[shadowcat]

Nice Stainless Cheese Grater!
I approve.

[Ben Reyes]

‘Slice-a-roni, the San Francisco treat.’

[Disciplinemisanthropy]

come to boston for the world's smallest suspension bridge.

[word_warrior_bob]

They have to do the same for all tall building now or it won’t be “fair”, they need to make S.F. a Suicide Free zone, maybe line the sidewalks with mattresses, that way the homeless will have “homes” and break the fall of jumpers.