Beeker's Words

I was searching for more information about the man who threw his four children off a bridge and eventually landed on this article and graphic about people committing suicide by jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge. The article is a few years old but still relevant. Jumping from a bridge is not an easy way to go according to the author Edward Guthmann. He states the following in his series, “In fact, there’s nothing peaceful in a jump from the bridge. Once a person dives, depending on where he or she jumps, the body plummets 240 to 250 feet in four seconds, traveling about 75 mph, and hits the water with the force of a speeding truck meeting a concrete building. Some die instantly from extensive internal injuries; others drown in their own blood.” Personally I think the man who tossed his kids off the bridge should be taken on a field trip to San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge. Oops did he fall?