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07.29.06, LM, Kissimmee, FL., Your site is insensitive to family and friends. It is ridiculous to think this is the way to make people "think better" or that you're helping loved ones in any way. What you're doing is upsetting loved ones and having no effect on jumpers. Jumpers aren't going to scan the web for news on jumpers before they jump. All you do is cause pain to relatives which makes you look immature and foolish. Another reason your site needs adjustment is that you think that posting "letters to the editor" means you are supposed to "get the last word in" but the only publications that display sophistication which do that are the ones that don't post replies. The act of posting a reply makes you look childish. And the idea that "sarcasm" is appropriate puts you on the level of a comedy site. If you just want to report news of jumpers, I think that MIGHT have some possible use if done tastefully. Purpose might be "hey, this is a dangerous place, this bridge; it attracts jumpers, and here are the latest reports of them. Done matter of factly, no editorializing about the person or about your idea that they were "selfish" to do what they did. Ultimately it's no one's business when someone ends their life. Only someone immature stays long with the idea of "they were selfish" with regard to suicide. Generally people that knew the person understand what happened and they certainly don't think it's up to them to have a say over it. It's not your business or the relatives' or friends why a person ends their life. Their contract with god is between them and their maker, not you. Editorializing what the person should have done ("just not jump!") is weak logic and reveals a lack of compassion. I understand you thought you did something good but you didn't. You didn't really understand anything at all about suicide before you started creating the site. I suggest you reconsider, think deeply about what the person ending his life went through and stop selfishly worrying about the relatives because THEY understand. Nobody made you God. It ain't up to you or anyone else to decide when Billy Joe's life should end; it's up to god and Billy Joe. I assume you don't have any agony when someone euthanizes their pet that is in pain; a person choosing to end his life for whatever reason - that's up to him, not you. You have no idea what the reasons might have been; he might have discovered he had terminal cancer and chose this way to go out. The best thing to do instead of preaching, being comical, or editorializing if you find this so fascinating a topic is report the facts and leave out the editorializing although allowing family to give tribute is ok. However since you feel tributes make people feel encouraged to kill themselves, then leave off the tributes and leave off the editorials. Consider just showing the facts, cold, no editorials, no tributes from family. That might be a way to accomplish what you want without being insensitive to the family who you claim to be helping but aren't as things are now. Any project can change and improve. Just
(thank you, lm, for showing us just how much
drivel one can type into our hate form before
the thing can't take it anymore. we read your every
word and just before our collective heads exploded, you were cut off. sure, we
could go on about how we really don't care what you think and how we are not here
for compassion or sensitivity, but why bother, you would just find fault with our
logic. we didn't create this site to show compassion or to "make people
think better". check it out: this site is here to give people an opportunity
to guess when someone jumps off the
skyway bridge. it's that simple. some people guess
and some people jump. the correct guessers win and the jumpers lose. we don't
wonder why the jumper jumped, we leave that up to the jumper. only they truly know
why they are jumping. you, their family, and 'god' itself can not stop them and are clueless as to
what finally drives a jumper to jump. whether terminally ill or terminally unable to
cope with life, it's their decision to jump. it's our decision to report the
jump, post whatever we can about it, congratulate a winner,
poke fun at the whole process, and/or offer
help to potential suicidals, if they care to get it. if you don't like it, you are free to
complain,
which you did at too great length. we are free to think you should stay away from
this site. that goes for anyone that may find this site distasteful. just stay
away. go away now. we are always curious what it is you haters think you will find on a site
called "the skyway bridge
jumperpool". it's all spelled out in the name. there is ample
warning on the first page, yet here you
are. was this 'posted reply' childish
enough for you?)
07.27.06, Bufu, Largo, Florida, You are cruel. You are truly and utterly cruel. (why
is that? did we dis your outfit? crack on your rotund buttocks? remark about your child's inbred punkin' head? you need to be more
specific.)
04.03.06, hate me, I am the person who will get your site shut down,thank you.
(if you need our help, let us know. we'll be waiting
here, watching paint dry on growing grass.)
02.26.06, bambi, st. petersburg, fl, Someday something so awful is going to happen to you and just remember what "comes around goes around". Hopefully for you it will be a Mack truck and I will drive by laughing and saying "What a dump asshole, he wasn't driving the right car, the color was all wrong. It was the wrong make and model". But, I would think to myself he was "crazy" for leaving his house to drive to the corner store and then he got ran down like a dog. Then when he woke up the hospital after his life was saved and he was treated with compassion and care by "crazy" people he still woudn't give a shit. You are too late to save, because you are someone with no regard for HUMAN LIFE. So when something devasting like this happens to you, you will slowly rot in your nursing home bed... Unfortunately, you will be the scum that the tax payers have to pay for.
Geez, I saw alot of dumb assholes that responded to how cool this site was and I tried responding to the hate mail but its sensored. Go figure! Well, to the ones that thing this site is so cool. I think there is something even more cooler. Its called a coffin or a morgue after you get into a car accident, a tree falls on your head, food poisoning, electrocuted by your razor or hair dryer, slipping on your kitchen floor and busting your head open. Wow, we should do a website for that and say "How Cool"!
Dear Ass shit? Why are your lips sealed? Did you have to suck alot of c**k?
i saw an overweight white male in his 40-50's with thinning hair with bald
spots. waiting for a MACK truck to run him over. Oops,is that you Ass Wipe, Oops, I mean the one that created this site? The one with no regard for human life??
(doesn't look too censored to us. did you make all that up
yourself? a bit rambly and not as coherent as much of our hate mail, but at
least you found time in your busy day to write us your insightful wit.)
02.15.06, Kathy R., Safety Harbor, FL., Unless you can change and dedicate your site strictly to assisting those who are suicidal, I think you should stop. My daughter has a mental illness and took car and crashed and rolled it 3-4 times on the top of the Sunshine Skyway Bridge in Oct. of '04 and I can tell you it is and was not funny or humorous or entertaining as you make your site out to be. It is tragic to go through watching and helping someone who is precious and promising and intellingent and pretty and whom you care very deeply about as they hear voices and are mentally tormented to the point of wanting to take their own life. The reprucussions are devastating if the person lives or not. I am grateful that she did live but You should be very ashamed of yourself young man! Put your talents to good use why don't you? Find something else to make fun of besides people's intense pain please and I am serious. (we
are pleased your daughter lived through her ordeal. we don't suppose you want to
give more detail on this accident. can you be more specific on the date?
visitors to this site are curious to read about accidents on the bridge.) kathy
replies:
02.16.06, Kathy R., Safety Harbor, FL., NO I would not- it was a personal
nightmare and u r an ass for asking something so insensitive--that's my point
--your site would never be there if you had gone through what I did. (we
are an ass for many other reasons as well.)
update:
07.13.07, wissue goaway, (aka: Kathy R., Safety Harbor,
FL.), You are still ad ASS! and my daughter is doing great now-has a new car too.
(glad she is doing well. thanks for checking in and do
keep us posted.)
12.12.05, Mary, R.P., Ca., I just wanted to respond to this bit of sickness posted. The words I could waist on people like you who make jokes out of other peoples pain and accidental deaths by trying to connect the voulentary and the invoulentary are better spent trying to show you the difference. So please go get a job and forget your harness and net and see if you can torment someone else from the seventh circle of hell where you will undoubtably land
(mary could maybe 'waist' some time lernin' some spellin' skills. that way her judging and condemning us to hell would look more
edukated.)
10.28.05, don, cape town, up yours, to have spent the time trying to figureout what the page was about this page did not do much for me = i hate u (thank
you for giving us the first opportunity to update this page in six months.)
04.19.05, fuzznutz, palmetto, fl, out of curiousity...how do sit here and make a game of these people's lives? they were driven to suicide and your betting on this? dont get me wrong you shouldnt take life to serious, what fun would you have?, but when i saw this i was repulsed. it is distasteful and...and...just disrespectful of the deceased and their families.
03.23.05, satan, 666 hell st., see you guys and gal soon (who has the cleverest visitors? that's right, we do.
apparently, devilboy knows our whole staff.)
03.16.05, bongo, i think that this website is sick and twisted suicide is not a
joke! i don't know what creeps were thinking at this time but something wasn't write you need to shut it off asap u sick creeps!
03.06.05, Rik R., Largo, Fl., This is without a doubt the worst site that I have ever come across. Making fun of people jumping to their deaths. Sad...very very sad.
(yes, we are sure this is not the type of site you normally
"come across", if you know what we mean and we think you do.)
03.04.05, Melanie, Sarasota, FL., I think this site is very disgusting and shouldn't be allowed on the internet!! Not right. You should be ashamed.
(you are right, we need to start censoring the internet.
after that, let's burn books. then we can start rounding up those that don't think
the way we think they should think. thank you, melanie goebbels.)
10.28.04, Karen. M., Winnipeg, MB, Canada, I unfortunately ended up finding your site after searching for an article related to suicide for my course in Mental Health Nursing. I still cannot believe that anyone could be so ignorant to use such ideology as "maybe if parents did their job there would be less adolescent suicides", or that suicide is "selfish and hateful". If you really want to talk about being selfish and hateful you should take some time for introspection into the motivation for your website. A truly selfish person is one not able to empathize with a mentally ill individual
who, at the very depths of despair, is unable to see any other means of escape but to die. And on this
despair, you place a bet. As for hateful, I suppose you are not espousing hatred for jumpers. You do however incite discrimination against the mentally ill, and propagate the myths surrounding mental health. People do not choose to leave families behind because they are self-absorbent egomaniacs. They believe that their families would be better off without the burden of living with a person whose disease has ruined their lives. I think that you are entitled to your "Freedom of Speech", I just wish you were more educated about mental illness and suicide to know that you should count yourself lucky that you can enjoy this freedom. I'm sure there would be many people living with mental illness that wished they could say the same.
(we firmly stand behind our opinion that if maybe parents did their jobs
better, there would be less adolescent suicides, not to mention, a better
behaved society. tell us how we are wrong. as for people taking themselves
out, our opinion is that it's their right, no matter what the reason. it's
their life to take, mentally ill or not. we feel suicide is selfish and
weak, not hateful. we wish you much success in your educational endeavors and
hope in the future, you can think outside your preoccupation with mental
illness. think about this, if we put a scale on mental illness from 0-100,
everyone on this planet would fall into this scale somewhere. fair enough? since we doubt many
would have a score of 0 mental issues, it is also fair to say
virtually everyone walking the planet has some form of "mental
illness" to some extent, however miniscule. this goes for you too sitting there reading this crap. we are
100% certain you could find a busload of head doctors that could 'find' something
'wrong'
with each and every one of us to some degree of their doctoral opinion and they will have some
medication to 'fix' you. would it then be right to medicate everyone, simply
because some quackhole deems it so? your accusation we "incite discrimination against the mentally
ill" is ridiculous. how can we discriminate against everyone? our heads
hurt from all this stellar logic.)
09.20.04, Julie, Delaware, I hope you post this. My father jumped from the delaware memorial bridge when I was seven years old, and unfortunately, he didn't survive. He actually had no intentions of surviving because he committed suicide. I think people who don't understand people who commit suicide should not make any comments about it. As for them being weak, what do you know? People have their own reasons for why they do the things they do. I know I chose to go on this sight and read some of these stupid comments, but that was my fault. This is for the people who want to make rude comments about people who commit suicide. I hope it happens to you. Have your father die for a lie and jump off a bridge and have one person care enough to stop and tell someone. Then you come back and tell me it was just because they are weak.
(we understand your sorrow, hurt, and anger. your father
took his own life and left his family behind. it is our opinion
and contention that unless you have intolerable
physical pain
and/or a terminal illness, suicide is weak and selfish. we don't know the whole
story, but your father dying for a lie sounds weak and selfish to us.)
07.10.04, Crystal, Escondido, CA., I was just called and told that a family member of mine jumped from the
Skyway Bridge. So I went to the internet to hopefully find some information and receive some type of comfort. Unfortunately, my search led me to this
damn site. I will agree with all the "other statements you have already heard" but I would also like to add that I would really like to know... How you can
look at yourself in the mirror everyday knowing that this site may even be the reason some of these "unstable" individuals found reason and or advice on
how and why to jump. You are very sick individuals who seem to live out some sort of sick and twisted fantasy taking "pools" on the next jumper. You
have put so much time and energy into this freakin site, maybe you should deter some of that time and energy into doing something to help the mentally
unstable? We will all have to answer to the higher being at the end of our journey and You "my friend" will have some explaining to do. I hope you can
live with yourself and face YOUR judgment day! PS. Did I pass your test? Did I finish Middle School, Idiot!?!?!
(it would have been swell if you told us the specific family
member jumper incident so we could include your rant against this site
in the right place. are kind words on the internet all you need to find comfort
about this jumper? are you looking for glowing praise about this person,
how great he/she was, and all the other typical bullshit one reads after someone
commits suicide? instead, you come here and read about how this person has brought
shame and sorrow to everyone that knew and loved them and now somehow, it's all our
fault. we do not give 'reason' or 'advice' on jumping, the 'how' part is obvious,
and the 'why' is up to them. it's their life to end, they make the choice, they
take the final step, and you are left to deal with it. please do so. as for
judgment day, we wonder how well your family member made out on theirs, being as
suicide is supposedly a one way ticket to hell. yes, you
did pass the test. you did well for a middle school idiot.)
07.09.04, Tina, Johnstown PA, I realize that you are trying to use shock value to communicate the aftermath that suicide leaves behind. However, being someone who has been holding on to the threads of a rope for far too long, I see this site as further proof of a hopeless world. Who knows, maybe it will work for someone.
(not sure if this is really a hate submission. we hope
your world spins better soon. life is worth the living.)
05.27.04, jan p., columbus, GA., I was just going over your site and saw where you answered a hate mail by questioning where God and Jesus were at the time of the
jump(s). God and Jesus were there and I am sure quite saddened. Christians, just like everyone else have freedom of choice. Just like you have the freedom to not believe. No one should question God or doubt God when a person has made such a desperate choice. They let go of the rope, not him.
(this site is not here to argue whether or not your
fairy tale characters are real or responsible for anything. you offered your
beliefs and we hope they work out for you.)
05.27.04, Matt B., Portland, Oregon, USA, That is sad. Why do you have this site? It seems a little
morbid, but I guess you cant avoid that. (the morbid part
is that you ventured a guess for the next jumper along with your complaint. good luck!)
04.29.04, A heartbroken mother, Pasadena, CA., My 22 year old son died by jumping off the Colorado Street Bridge in 2002 and there is nothing funny, humorous, or entertaining about having the police knock on your door and tell you that fact. It has left me heartbroken, never to heal and to live out my life wondering why. I search the internet to try to find comfort and solace and instead get directed here only to find what these people say and contribute regarding this very sad thing that happens more often than not to those of us who have to now live our lives in heartbreak. I understand it is a "free country" and people can express their feelings...I only hope and pray that none of you ever loses a child or loved one by suicide in this manner or any manner. Believe me, you won't find something like this entertaining if it ever does happen to you. It just tears apart the already fragile scab on a wound that will never heal. You might say, "it won't ever happen to me"...well, that's what "I" used to say. (we
are sorry for your loss, but your story is proof positive that anyone that
commits suicide is being very selfish and hateful. your son has done his mother
a wrong that can not be forgiven, understood, or healed. we hope that by
pointing this out to the potentially selfish, we may prevent further hurt
and sorrow.)
03.23.04, becky p., brandon, florida, you people are sick!!!! i cant beleive you all are talking like that these people had a problem ... i am sure thier familys dont apprieciate what you all say ... you people need a life .... grow up some!!! (so
becky, what are you wearing now?)
03.22.04, Joseph D., Michigan, all of you should join hands and pray, because you have issues that need to be dealt with, it is sick and i will do everything in my power to rid this site,,,,, sorry but you have messed with the wrong person.. please stop helping people to kill themseles it is sick and twisted and you should thank god for not striking down on you for this........i hope you enjoies this site while it lasted. (we
don't recall messing with you, but bring it on anyway, powerboy. we have had
better than you get all up in our grill over the audacity of this site. the
current betting line at blowhardjoseph.com indicates you are full of hot air and
will do nothing more than submit the rambling posted above. we do not help
people kill themselves and we would perhaps 'enjoies this site', if we knew what
that meant.)
03.20.04, SLR, BC, Canada, I AM DISGUSTED with some of the VERY CALLOUSE remarks about what you so-called 'people' call jumpers. I have been there myself, only to have survived several times, only from different bridges here in BC. I can identify with those who have taken their lifes on this bridge. What I have to ask you is this; How would you feel if it was you that was the 'jumper', or the bereaved and knowing that people said these things about you when you where at your rock-bottom pit? Haven't you EVER HEARD THAT ALL PEOPLE ARE EQUAL, NO MATTER THEIR WALK OF LIFE, THEIR CAUSE OF DEATH? That's all I can say...HOPE you THINK twice about OTHERS before your next callouse remarks...EVER think that this site might just egg an already hurting person on??? YOU HELP TO CREATE THE WORLD AROUND YOU...PLEASE REMEMBER THAT
("so-called 'people'"? wow, that hurts. so who's the callous one now? you have tried and failed at suicide
several times before. well, good for you. we suppose everyone should treat you special now or watch out, you may try it again. what would it matter what others thought if we jumped from the bridge, being as we would be dead and all. we imagine we would get the same "what an idiot" sort of legacy
that most every other suicide practitioner gets. that's the way it is in the eyes of most, you kill yourself, you are
crazy. f.y.i., not all people are
equal and you are a braindead idiot if you truly believe that.)
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