iPods and suicide attempts
I spent the weekend at my parent’s house in Alabama, and while here Matt was the next to fall to the stylish advances of the iPod. I don’t think that I could start allowing Apple to define my sense of fashion and still be able to take myself seriously, so I think that I might have to get some sort of fancy multi-colored cellphone or some trendy sunglasses in order to keep up.
Atlanta lacks sufficiently private places from which to jump. Windows aren’t going to open above the sixth floor or so, and there aren’t any good cliffs that I can think of, so the despondent are left with overpasses, leaving another sixteen lanes by five miles worth of the world standing against them while they ponder their troubles. Someone tried to jump from the Windy Hill overpass on Thursday, which caused all of 75 to be shut down at that point. I apparently just missed it; I ate at the First Church of Chick-fil-a for breakfast, and one meal later traffic was at a standstill under the same bridge. The man “fell” while police tried to wrestle him to the ground, and survived since overpasses aren’t really all that high, but the big problem I see here is that a highly publicized event like this is probably going to encourage repetitions. This is the second time in as many months that someone has tried to jump from an overpass. Apparently the 47 different police departments that have jurisdiction over the highway think the same thing, and someone, somewhere is planning to buy one of those trucks with the big air bag thing. The article I found on google with this information only says that “officials” are planning to purchase new equipment, probably not fully understanding the complexity of our home rule situation, so I suspect that jumpers will soon be receiving different levels of service depending on which part of the bridge they choose as a jumping point. We don’t share fire trucks, and we won’t share suicide attempts.
Man… It’s hard to get more attention than shutting down the highway that 4