Hoover Dam suicide jumper. (Warning! Graphic Content)

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[video]http://www.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/81040439/[/video]
 

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Damn!!!! that's nuts! is that his head blowing off?!!! :smoking:
 

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i believe that is the dudes hat rolling down the dam after the guy has already hit bottom
 

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Did he get scalped there at the end or what? Looks like a piece of scalp flying off.

Wonder if he has already dead before he hit the bottom.

Just to clarify he is the same guy seen walking at the beginning of the video right?
 

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Did he get scalped there at the end or what? Looks like a piece of scalp flying off.

Wonder if he has already dead before he hit the bottom.

Just to clarify he is the same guy seen walking at the beginning of the video right?


Yes it is. That was the same guy at the beginning of the video.
 

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I'm just disturbed by this. Sad it happened. I'd like to know what it was that made him jump.
 

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Maybe he made the RX stiff list?
 

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wonder if he planned it that way? hard to imagine someone committing suicide by skidding their way to death along the side of the dam....looked like he was still alive till his head hit about halfway down
 

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I'm just disturbed by this. Sad it happened. I'd like to know what it was that made him jump.

Nothing disturbing about it to be honest. Just a guy killing himself.

The documentary The Bridge is depressing. It's about people who jump off the Golden Gate with video footage then a look into their lives and trying to see why they were suicidal. I could not make it through 30 minutes, too depressing.
 

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Nothing disturbing about it to be honest. Just a guy killing himself.

The documentary The Bridge is depressing. It's about people who jump off the Golden Gate with video footage then a look into their lives and trying to see why they were suicidal. I could not make it through 30 minutes, too depressing.

Yeah I saw parts of that on youtube. The one I remember is that dude dressed up in leather with a leather hat. Made me wonder why he chose to wear that. If he was so despondent that nothing mattered then why get dressed up at all? Maybe he was trying to make something meaningful out of his death, who knows?
 

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after watching the video i was compelled to google and see if i could find out about this particular case.....didn't find anything on this guy, but did see a short article about a guy who dressed in a clown costume and jumped off the observation deck of the empire state building
 

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Yeah I saw parts of that on youtube. The one I remember is that dude dressed up in leather with a leather hat. Made me wonder why he chose to wear that. If he was so despondent that nothing mattered then why get dressed up at all? Maybe he was trying to make something meaningful out of his death, who knows?


I was thinking along the same way about the Hoover Dam jumper. Why wear the hat at all dude? I mean, when he put it on that day was he thinking he needed to protect his face from the sun or maybe he had a bad hair day and threw the cap on? When he hit the bottom he really had a bad hair day at that point with his scalp flying off like that. Point is, why put the cap on? Bet he also had underwear on but why?
 

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That was Budd Dwyer who served as State Treasurer for Pennsylvania back in 1987.

He was convicted of accepting a bribe from an accounting firm that wanted the conctract to calculate all the overpaid FICA taxes the state employees paid.

He passes out three envelopes which one contained a suicide note to his wife, a second contained organ donor info, and a third to the newly serving govenor at the time.

I don't ever remember this happening.
 

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