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Originally Posted by Buddahaid

People try that from the GG bridge and most fail...

Indeed! When I interviewed for Golden Gate bridge security a while back, the 5 person interview panel inquired 'what I an experienced Federal housing officer, would do to improve things on the bridge'. I responded with my customary cheeky sod humor: "open a bungee-cord concession to "let em' try it once!" They were consumed with mirth! So much for formality. During a Civil War re-enactor weekend, some years previously, at Ft. Point directly under the G.G. Bridge, a female jumper had miscalculated her leap and ended up inside the fort. Fortunately ,the grave 0200 on-duty shift, incl. myself, were battle-hardened fire/police 'first responders'. We covered the multiple messy remains with our ponchos (HIV precautions) and summoned the Presidio Park Police to handle the affair, w/o waking some 150 other re-enactors, mostly juveniles, in their bunks. Talkin' firsthand misery here! I was probably going to get the bridge patrol position... till I surmised being the newest recruit on the grave shift on the bridge during Pacific storms at SF Bay's Hells Gate is no place for old 60+ guards to be! I did not show for the second interview even though the panel had apparently liked my no-holds barred response enough to invite me for the second interview....the bridge is now being fitted/equipped with steel netting to prevent jumpers. 26 (known out of 1400 since 1937!) jumpers died this year and Bridge Security prevented another 156 from leaping to their demise.