BrokenArts on 29/6/2009 at 21:54
Quote Posted by Pyrian
gladdened by the self-inflicted deaths of idiots, so I'm kind of conflicted about this one. :p
He should win the Darwin award. Though late at night, and its dark, he may not of seen the gap. The picture below the article is more deserving of the Darwin award. Scientist jabs herself with a needle filled with the Ebola virus!
You go girl!
demagogue on 29/6/2009 at 22:56
I wouldn't call him dumb at all. How many car-bearing bridges do you know that have gaping holes in the center? I can't think of a single one around me, not where the other lane wouldn't just be on an entirely other bridge; but not the same one. So if it's a bridge he's never driven on in his life or very rarely; it's nighttime; there are no streetlamps so it's really pitch black (& if you've ever driven upstate NY in the Catskills, I mean those highways are REALLY pitch black); and he can't distinguish black asphalt from black space; I wouldn't blame him or anybody else for not seeing it.
Pyrian on 29/6/2009 at 23:42
Quote Posted by demagogue
How many car-bearing bridges do you know that have gaping holes in the center?
Around here, for freeways at least, I'm pretty sure it's the
majority of them. But you might not notice...
Quote Posted by demagogue
I wouldn't blame him or anybody else for not seeing it.
Seventeen feet of thin air? If I don't blame him for not seeing it I still blame him for leaping into complete darkness.
BrokenArts on 29/6/2009 at 23:47
Wouldn't you normally feel the ground first after climbing over a concrete barrier? I know I would, being short, its what I do climbing over stuff.
demagogue on 30/6/2009 at 01:07
It was "stepping" over. You could imagine he was jogging across (probably don't walk slowly across a country highway), and the concrete divider was just high enough to obscure the view behind it. He just hopped over it without giving it a second thought and there just wasn't another side.
Edit: I guess I want to defend him because I was walking along the side of a country road at night once and walked completely blindly off a 8 foot drop on the side that I had absolutely no clue was there until my foot just suddenly stepped off into empty space, and the next thing I knew I hit the ground completely beweildered. I'm not sure some of you are appreciating absolute blackness around these kinds of highways. (And in my case, it didn't help that the headlights of an oncoming car completely blacked-out everything).
Rug Burn Junky on 30/6/2009 at 01:23
Sorry demagogue, but small highway overpasses are pretty commonly split like that, as well as major bridges (think of the Brooklyn Bridge - one structure, but two separate spans hanging side by side with a wooden walkway in between).
Besides, if you're on a bridge, there's a divider on one side, and 17 feet away there's a divider on the other, what do you think is going to be in between, a rolling meadow of grass?
I know the area pretty well (I grew up about 20 minutes away and still take Route 23 regularly to go skiing), and if it's the bridge I'm thinking of, it's pretty well lit, too.
I'm sure it was just the adrenalin and he was rushing without thinking, but it's still a pretty fuckin' dumb thing to do.
Koki on 30/6/2009 at 06:17
I think we can safely assume that it was not an accident at all.
belboz on 1/7/2009 at 10:42
theres a double bridge near me, the gap between the bridges is 5ft of thin air, and a 20ft drop to a river you wouldn't want anyone to swim in, due to nasty under currents that pull you to the bottom of the 30ft deep river as soon as you jump in. the bridge is used by people who want to end their lives, fall off that bridge and your body will turn up 6 months later in a rather larger size than it went in as.
Although getting over the edge it a bit hard, you got to climb over the metal crash barrier, then the 3ft high concrete wall behind that then the metal railing along the edge of the bridge which is 4 ft high.
