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Golden Gate Bridge officials vote for suicide net
Associate Press via San Jose Mercury News ^ | 10 October 2008

Posted on 10/10/2008 9:06:21 PM PDT by 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...

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


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: bridge; getthenet; goldengate; goldengatebridge; justdamn; net; sanfrancisco; suicide
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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.
1 posted on 10/10/2008 9:06:22 PM PDT by CounterCounterCulture
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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?


2 posted on 10/10/2008 9:08:29 PM PDT by Tublecane
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Sounds to me like something that might kill hundreds or more) of innocent shore birds.

Seriously.

3 posted on 10/10/2008 9:08:35 PM PDT by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never...except to convictions of honour and good sense. W. Churchill)
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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.


4 posted on 10/10/2008 9:08:59 PM PDT by EyeGuy (Obama will deliver America on a Leash to an envious world.)
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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.


5 posted on 10/10/2008 9:11:41 PM PDT by DieHard the Hunter (Is mise an ceann-cinnidh. Cha ghéill mi do dhuine. Fàg am bealach.)
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stainless steel net

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

6 posted on 10/10/2008 9:12:25 PM PDT by Domandred (McWhathisname / Palin - 2008)
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LOL beat me!


7 posted on 10/10/2008 9:12:55 PM PDT by Domandred (McWhathisname / Palin - 2008)
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If someone jumps and gets injured in that net SFO or the bridge owner will pay bigtime in the lawsuit lottery.
8 posted on 10/10/2008 9:12:55 PM PDT by webrover
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I recommend that suicide wanna-be’s just lie down in the roadway and let traffic run over them.


9 posted on 10/10/2008 9:13:07 PM PDT by Rudder (That One, Hussein Obama)
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More efficient to shutdown the gay bathhouses.
10 posted on 10/10/2008 9:13:23 PM PDT by BGHater (The GOP, the new DNC.)
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“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.


11 posted on 10/10/2008 9:14:24 PM PDT by JSteff
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“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.


12 posted on 10/10/2008 9:16:51 PM PDT by jessduntno (Good Grief.)
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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.

13 posted on 10/10/2008 9:17:26 PM PDT by InvisibleChurch (If there is no God above the state, the state becomes the god.)
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Glad to hear that San Francisco and California are so well off financialy that they have $50 million to spend on this ridiculous nonsense.


14 posted on 10/10/2008 9:18:13 PM PDT by Mad_Tom_Rackham ("The land of the Free...Because of the Brave")
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electrify the net, cut down on body searches


15 posted on 10/10/2008 9:19:33 PM PDT by chemical_boy
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Will just force the leapers to leap beyond the net.


16 posted on 10/10/2008 9:21:40 PM PDT by doc1019 (Obama IS running against Palin)
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Nice Stainless Cheese Grater!
I approve.


17 posted on 10/10/2008 9:21:47 PM PDT by shadowcat
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To: DieHard the Hunter

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


18 posted on 10/10/2008 9:24:33 PM PDT by Ben Reyes
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come to boston for the world's smallest suspension bridge.

19 posted on 10/10/2008 9:25:11 PM PDT by Disciplinemisanthropy (III III IV)
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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.


20 posted on 10/10/2008 9:26:39 PM PDT by word_warrior_bob (You can now see my amazing doggie and new puppy on my homepage!! Come say hello to Jake & Sonny)
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