“...6-foot-1 Jake climbed over a 42-inch tall metal wire fence onto a 33-inch wide concrete ledge, bordered by an 18-inch tall metal rail along the cliff’s edge”
Common sense lacking in so many in that generation...
You can’t fix stupid, but stupid often fixes itself.
It’s not just this generation of college kids.
I remember in the ‘80s seeing classmates jumping off of a two-story building into a pool which had 6 to 8 foot concrete perimeter. One girl slipped on the jump and barely made it into the pool. I had to leave after that. Fortunately, no one was injured.