MSNBC - A field trip that included a walk along the Golden Gate Bridge ended with a student jumping off the bridge Thursday morning. The unnamed student survived and was taken to San Francisco General Hospital, where he was reportedly being treated for injuries. Windsor High School superintendent Bill McDermott said the boy did not suffer any life threatening injuries. The boy's only complaint to paramedics on the scene was soreness and some bruising. The student did not jump from the center of the bridge which is 250 feet. He went over the edge from an area between Fort Point and the South tower, which is about 220-feet above the water. He had to climb over a four foot railing to get to the water's edge...There were about 45 students and two teachers from Windsor High School in Sonoma County taking part in a field trip. At least two of the students tweeted about the jump while they were still on the field trip. The school said counselors were on hand to assist anyone on the trip that may have been traumatized by the incident, according to a press release from the school.
This is news? I fail to see what the big deal here is, I mean you read that he didn't jumped from 220 feet up instead of the maximum 250, right? I fail to how people can be shocked that a well executed pencil dive would be perfectly harmless here. Some mild soreness and brusing is all that should be expected.
I've got a couple of cousins that used to live by a bridge up in Maine, we used to plunge off that thing multiple times a day, you didn't see every one in uproar and us making the national 6 pm news. Sure it wasn't as famous as the Golden Gate Bridge, but a bridge is a bridge, right?
And what's with the counselors? Who do they think is traumatized by this? How many high schoolers do you think know someone as cool as this Bridge Jumper? Kids just tweeting the shit out of it, live blogging the action while it goes down. Yea, sounds like they need counseling. All the kids on the bridge now have one hell of an awesome story when they go off to college freshmen year. That's their "in" to any circle you want. "Hey remember that kid a few years back that took a header off the Golden Gate Bridge and just walked it off? We ate lunch together in high school."
