Posted on 02/04/2019 7:24:34 AM PST by rktman
CORONADO, Calif. -- Caltrans crews Tuesday night began prepping concrete barriers along the Coronado Bridge for the installation of suicide-deterrent spikes.
The spikes, which are used to keep birds from sitting on lights and other objects, will serve as a deterrent to keep people from jumping over the side of the bridge and attempting to take their lives.
"By no means is this an end-all cure-all, purely a deterrent," said Steven Bouchard, who survived a suicide attempt from the bridge in 1987.
Bouchard recently spoke to Caltrans board members about the need to do something on the bridge to prevent more suicides. Since the span opened in 1969, 420 people have jumped to their deaths. Bouchard says the spikes will make a big difference.
"If spikes are there, even if people hear there's a deterrent, that alone may be enough to keep them from going through with their plan or may steer them in another direction," Bouchard said.
Caltrans has said the work could cost up to $300,000 and take several weeks to complete.
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Is that kinda like a wall. That would be immoral
Barriers are immoral.
Seems like they should install steps instead.
Be a facilitator, not a hater!
“”By no means is this an end-all cure-all, purely a deterrent,” said Steven Bouchard, who survived a suicide attempt from the bridge in 1987.””
How weird!!! If he’d been a democrat, he would have sued the city because he survived!
Red Dwarf Ping!
RIMMER: Maybe I should talk to him. Maybe he needs a bit of counseling.
LISTER: You?!
RIMMER: I used to be in the Samaritans.
LISTER: I know. For one morning.
RIMMER: I couldn’t take any more.
LISTER: I don’t blame you. You spoke to five people, and they all committed suicide. I wouldn’t mind, but one was a wrong number! He only phoned up for the cricket scores!
RIMMER: Well, it’s hardly my fault that everyone chose that morning to throw themselves off buildings! Made the papers, you know. “Lemming Sunday,” they called it.
Nothing to worry about. In leftist California there will one day be suicide clinics, where old Whites can eliminate themselves neatly, and not force rescue crews to drag the river and spend thousands of dollars that could be spent on suicide pills.
Yes I wonder about that. What if people get stabbed and impaled on the spikes??
Will they then sue for their injuries suffered from being impaled? Serious question. People may well survive but have crippling injuries from the spikes. Any attorneys ready to file suits???
If they want to die, they can instead just show up at an ER and identify as a 40 wk old fetus.
I think we need to ban assault bridges.
***Since the span opened in 1969, 420 people have jumped to their deaths.***
Just curious, but are their any other mammals other than humans that destroy themselves or females that kill their own young?
How about rolling back rampant statism and importation of the third world?
So instead of dying from impact, they can die from being impaled... accomplishing the same goal....
“....spend thousands of dollars that could be spent on suicide pills.”
They’d just take that out of medical, close the account, and keep the remaining money for the next one. It’s all in the “liberal borrow and spend playbook.”
rwood
Tigers, rabbits, dolphins, whales (beaching themsevles) ... that's off the top of my head.
It should work. People who want to suicide may not want to get an owie.
That was as good as the scene where Kryten manages to convince his replacement/terminator-bot that there is no Silicon Heaven, and all the little toasters “just die”.
What about the calculators?
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