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Infrastructure Bill Includes $6.5 Million Earmark to Stop Suicides in Nancy Pelosi’s District
Cybercast News Service ^ | July 29, 2021 | 12:38pm EDT | CNSNews.com Staff

Posted on 07/30/2021 9:39:10 AM PDT by Olog-hai

The $715 billion infrastructure bill that passed the U.S. House of Representatives earlier this month includes a $6,550,000 earmark aimed at stopping people from committing suicide by jumping from the Golden Gate Bridge, which is in Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s congressional district. […]

“The Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District is in the process of constructing a Suicide Deterrent Net System (SDNS) to deter suicides at the Bridge by placing a physical barrier between a person and the water below,” it says. “The SDNS consists of marine grade stainless steel netting attached to structural steel net supports placed 20 feet below the sidewalks and extending out 20 feet over the water.” […]

As of 2019, an estimated 1,700 people had committed suicide by jumping from the Golden Gate Bridge. Construction of the bridge was completed in 1937. …

(Excerpt) Read more at cnsnews.com ...


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Local News
KEYWORDS: earmarks; goldengatebridge; infrastructurebill; pelosi; porkulus; sanfrancisco; sanfransicko; suicide
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1 posted on 07/30/2021 9:39:10 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

NOT the BEE??


2 posted on 07/30/2021 9:40:48 AM PDT by SMARTY (Republics decline into democracies & democracies degenerate into despotisms. Aristotle)
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To: Olog-hai

Living in Piglosi’s district, suicide may be a viable option.


3 posted on 07/30/2021 9:42:14 AM PDT by Signalman
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There are plenty of tall buildings and other structures in SF for folks that want to kill themselves.

One story a contractor told me—they were building a mid rise structure (ten stories) in an Eastern city—somebody climbed over the site fence, found a way to get to the top of the partially built building, and then jumped to their death.


4 posted on 07/30/2021 9:43:04 AM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: Olog-hai

I seem to remember suicide-thwarting structures on that bridge from way back. Determined people must have found ways around them.


5 posted on 07/30/2021 9:43:08 AM PDT by rightwingcrazy (;-,)
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To: Signalman
Nancy won't let anyone escape her reign!
6 posted on 07/30/2021 9:44:33 AM PDT by liberalh8ter (The only difference between flash mob 'urban yutes' and U.S. politicians is the hoodies.)
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To: Signalman

That’s ironic, since the word “viable” is derived from a French word meaning “capable of life”.


7 posted on 07/30/2021 9:45:30 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: SMARTY

just jump down 20 ft’ to the stainless steel netting and then jump off that?

problem solved suicider


8 posted on 07/30/2021 9:45:40 AM PDT by Eddie01
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To: Olog-hai

Slush fund


9 posted on 07/30/2021 9:46:00 AM PDT by Revel
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To: Olog-hai
Infrastructure Bill Includes $6.5 Million Earmark to Stop Suicides in Nancy Pelosi’s District

Wouldn't it be a better approach to just expel her from Congress?? Typical government, never remove the problem when you can apply a Band-Aid/pork! XD

10 posted on 07/30/2021 9:48:04 AM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: Olog-hai

$6.5 Million will buy a lot of $15/qt ice cream for that skank.


11 posted on 07/30/2021 9:48:27 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit..)
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To: SMARTY

Don’t the tin foil hats stop the bullets?


12 posted on 07/30/2021 9:49:32 AM PDT by fwdude ( )
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To: Olog-hai

Seems counterproductive to me.


13 posted on 07/30/2021 9:50:01 AM PDT by LIConFem (Read up on Russia's Oct, 1917 Revolution... And prepare.)
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To: Olog-hai
As of 2019, an estimated 1,700 people had committed suicide by jumping from the Golden Gate Bridge

I guess we need more suicide control laws.

14 posted on 07/30/2021 9:50:08 AM PDT by 1Old Pro (Let's make crime illegal again!)
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To: Olog-hai

If they are democrats/liberals why stop them?
They should make the railings handicap accessible.


15 posted on 07/30/2021 9:52:22 AM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Olog-hai

That’s a payoff to somebody, with probably a substantial kickback. It’s politics today.


16 posted on 07/30/2021 9:53:16 AM PDT by Spok (Those who can compel you to believe absurdities can compel you to commit atrocities.)
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To: Eddie01

“just jump down 20 ft’ to the stainless steel netting and then jump off that?”

That is not what the article says. If we spend the $6.5 million it will “stop” them. Not just reduce them or hinder them, it will STOP them.


17 posted on 07/30/2021 9:53:45 AM PDT by alternatives?
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To: Olog-hai

Tell me it isn’t so...

She’s going to have us all committing suicide if she doesn’t get hauled out of the House and sent to the booby hatch.

Be interesting to see what company-companies get the contract for that work!!! We can guess and we’d be right.


18 posted on 07/30/2021 9:54:47 AM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: Olog-hai

I guess human poo clean up is not part of infrastructure.


19 posted on 07/30/2021 9:57:12 AM PDT by Leep (Save America. Lock down Joe Biden!)
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To: Revel


I wonder which member of her orbit will have a new charitable suicide foundation.
20 posted on 07/30/2021 9:59:02 AM PDT by z3n
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