Monday, January 31, 2005

The Human Race Is Scum

On Golden Gate suicide jumpers in San Francisco.

A carnival mood preceded the 500th suicide, in 1973, as newspapers ran countdowns, TV crews staked out the bridge and bars took bets. As the 1,000th neared in 1995, a disc jockey offered a case of Snapple to the victim's family, but the California Highway Patrol stopped counting at 997.

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