City
Dept. of Unsubstantiated Rumors
posted by
Dan Savage
on November 3 at
7:47 AM
A Slog tipper texts…
i am stuck in some fucked up traffic on southbound 99 @ the entrance to the aurora bridge. looks like someone might’ve jumped… they have the “heavy rescue” truck out & @ least a cpl dozen crew people.
Comments
Hope it was a McCain / Rossi voter who jumped.
Change that heading to "Substantiated" rumors... (From the P-I:)
Several lanes closed on Aurora bridge due to possible suicide attempt
P-I Staff
Seattle police closed down several lanes of traffic on the Aurora Avenue Bridge Monday as a man threatened to jump from the railing.
The man had been on the bridge for about 40 minutes and as of 7:50 a.m., he had not jumped, police spokeswoman Renee Witt said.
Several police cars were positioned on the bridge. Firefighters were staging for a possible rescue.
One southbound lane of traffic remained closed while all northbound lanes were open, Witt said.
Seattle 911
11/3/2008 7:15:37 AM F080101431 A14 A2 B4 B5 DEP1 E8 E9 L6 L7 M18 M44 R1 SAFT2 STAF10 3700 Aurora Av N
Rescue Rope
Crap. Sure wish I had seen this 5 minutes ago before I got on the 358 when I could still have taken the 355. Oh well . . .
Oh well at least you still have the internet. Isn't modern life great?
is this different from the jumper on aurora bridge friday night @ 11 pm?!?
It took 55 minutes to get from 63rd to the bridge on the 358
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2008344852_webbridge03m.html
Vote YES on I-1000.
Why didn't you just call 911 to ask why traffic was backed up?
Wasn't there a proposed anti-jumper fence for Aurora? It would have come in handy this morning.
A coworker saw the guy jump. I wasn't at work yet, as I was stuck in the traffic for 2 hours.
What @9 said.
@9, @13 - A poor desperate person on a bridge and a terminally-ill patient are far from the same situation. Conflating them, by making this post an argument for I-1000, is not helpful to the pro I-1000 cause. Really.