director Tony Scott dies in apparent suicide
08-21-12, 07:15 PM
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Re: director Tony Scott dies in apparent suicide
"The Bridge" is an excellent documentary about people who jump off the Golden Gate Bridge to commit suicide. Highly recommended, if you can stomach it.
08-21-12, 07:19 PM
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I know, right. No reason to assume anything other than that they're a conscious, rational person making a calculated decision. It's not like the person could be mentally handicapped or suffering from mental illness.
08-21-12, 08:21 PM
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Not going to risk getting pulled off a bridge just to "save" a stranger that doesn't care to live anymore for whatever reason. There are very brave men and women who do not get paid nearly enough to put themselves at risk to enforce laws against suicide for that.
08-21-12, 10:35 PM
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Holy shit I hadn't learned until now that it was due to suicide. I was on vacation the last few days and had heard he had died, but not because of suicide. Damn...
08-22-12, 01:02 PM
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Re: director Tony Scott dies in apparent suicide
"Top Gun" director Tony Scott seemed to have planned out what he was going to do in the moments before he jumped to his death from the Vincent Thomas Bridge, a witness said.
"He was very methodical. He knew what he planned to do," witness David Silva said in an interview with The Times. "He looked very fit. I cannot imagine that someone in his position would do something like that."
Silva said he was is passenger in a car on the bridge about 60 feet from Scott when he jumped.
"He was on the roadway close to the fence looking around. He was looking around and fumbling with something at his feet. He looked nervous," Silva said. "I thought it was some extreme sports guy."
Silva said the car he was riding in was on the north side of the bridge heading to Palos Verdes while Scott was on the south side.
Silva said Scott was wearing sporty orange and gray attire with shorts.
Silva said he "paused a couple of seconds and then began to climb the fence. He put his foot on the top of the fence and paused again. And then he threw himself off. I immediately thought, that guy is dead."
At first, he and other motorists thought it was an daredevil stunt. Then they realized the man didn't have a parachute or safety cord.
Silva said he called 911 immediately
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lano...ness-says.html
"He was very methodical. He knew what he planned to do," witness David Silva said in an interview with The Times. "He looked very fit. I cannot imagine that someone in his position would do something like that."
Silva said he was is passenger in a car on the bridge about 60 feet from Scott when he jumped.
"He was on the roadway close to the fence looking around. He was looking around and fumbling with something at his feet. He looked nervous," Silva said. "I thought it was some extreme sports guy."
Silva said the car he was riding in was on the north side of the bridge heading to Palos Verdes while Scott was on the south side.
Silva said Scott was wearing sporty orange and gray attire with shorts.
Silva said he "paused a couple of seconds and then began to climb the fence. He put his foot on the top of the fence and paused again. And then he threw himself off. I immediately thought, that guy is dead."
At first, he and other motorists thought it was an daredevil stunt. Then they realized the man didn't have a parachute or safety cord.
Silva said he called 911 immediately
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lano...ness-says.html
Just an FYI: In William Friedkin's film To Live and Die In LA the main character jumps off the Vincent Thomas bridge using a bungy-cord/decelerator as a kind of "extreme stunt".
Also, I believe that the Vincent Thomas bridge is the bridge the Monkees jump off of at the beginging of their movie Head. Can anyone confirm that? EDIT: I checked and it was in fact the Gerald Desmond Bridge that the Monkees jumped off of. That bridge is about a 1/4 mile from the Vincent Thomas Bridge.
One last Fun Fact about the Vincent Thomas bridge: It is the bridge that DeNiro refers to as the Saint Vincent Thomas Bridge in Heat during the scene where they are tricking Pacino and the cops. The bridge was not named after a saint but rather a politician who championed its construction.
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08-22-12, 04:14 PM
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This went from guy realizing his final destination from the destiny of liquifying his brain to tyke poo puncher pulling a Goebbels (and it'll be youtubed!)
08-22-12, 04:34 PM
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08-22-12, 04:55 PM
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Why don't people commit suicide in better ways? Like jumping from a plane without a parachute or something.
I care about my life. Kind of. I dunno. Life just seems like something that comes and goes. I've always been a "you can't take it with you" kind of guy. You're not going to catch me on a deathbed, gasping and croaking for my last breaths of air. And I don't want to be part of a gaudy cemetary.
I care about my life. Kind of. I dunno. Life just seems like something that comes and goes. I've always been a "you can't take it with you" kind of guy. You're not going to catch me on a deathbed, gasping and croaking for my last breaths of air. And I don't want to be part of a gaudy cemetary.
08-22-12, 05:07 PM
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08-22-12, 05:58 PM
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I've known people who were suffering from ALS, terminal cancer, and horrible side effects of a lifetime of type 1 diabetes. They all loved their lives and their families, yet couldn't stand their suffering.
Watch the documentary "The Suicide Tourist." It might give you a little compassion. But probably not.
Of course you'd have a nice long time on your way to the ground to be aware of what was about to happen.
Jumping off a bridge wouldn't be my choice, but it seems just as effective as jumping out of a plane, but a lot simpler.
08-22-12, 08:07 PM
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1) You land on a tree with a huge branch that gets rammed up your ass and you live.
2) You land on top of a little girl and you kill her and yourself.
3) You land in a spot that is full of hungry lions.
4) You land on a hay stack, then you bounce off and fall right into an incoming tractor.
Jumping off a bridge is better. You drown, blarb blarb blard all water inside your lungs and then the fishes eat your ass out.
08-23-12, 08:27 AM
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Re: director Tony Scott dies in apparent suicide
Jumping off a plane can have serious consequences:
1) You land on a tree with a huge branch that gets rammed up your ass and you live.
2) You land on top of a little girl and you kill her and yourself.
3) You land in a spot that is full of hungry lions.
4) You land on a hay stack, then you bounce off and fall right into an incoming tractor.
1) You land on a tree with a huge branch that gets rammed up your ass and you live.
2) You land on top of a little girl and you kill her and yourself.
3) You land in a spot that is full of hungry lions.
4) You land on a hay stack, then you bounce off and fall right into an incoming tractor.
08-23-12, 08:33 AM
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Re: director Tony Scott dies in apparent suicide
Jumping out of a plane takes too long. If you just went and hopped out where it's somewhat inconspicuous you'd have a minimum 5 minute flight up and a 30 second drop to earth once you're out of the plane, 30 ridiculously long seconds. With a bridge it's much faster, and probably less messy.
08-23-12, 11:14 AM
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Re: director Tony Scott dies in apparent suicide
He should have became a super hero. Get a costume, mask, whatever and go around fighting crime.
Or
Become a villain. Get a costume, mask, whatever and go around committing crime.
That would be a good suicide!
Note- if you still this idea and turn it into a blockbuster film, I will sue you! Or has it already been done?!
Or
Become a villain. Get a costume, mask, whatever and go around committing crime.
That would be a good suicide!
Note- if you still this idea and turn it into a blockbuster film, I will sue you! Or has it already been done?!
