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This is lovely and amazing! 90% of chance of law enforcement to be in touch with you soon, unfortunately. This is akin posting Youtube video of yourself breaking legal speed limits.
On what evidence? He has some pictures on the web, so? Same with the speeding movies. What are the grounds?
http://gothamist.com/2011/11/19/video_see_the_williamsburg_b...
If you enjoy these sorts of stories, you'll love watching Man on Wire -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_on_Wire
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FWIW, http://www.health.ny.gov/environmental/outdoors/hudson_river...
It is the most photographed landmark in the country I am sorry but that is BS. I could not find any statistics about "photographed landmarks" but a quick check of any measure of tourism and this seems extremely unlikely. For starters San Francisco's tourism does not come close to NYC.
( http://www.nbcnews.com/id/43240059/ns/travel-travel_tips/t/m... ) > Mining data from 35 million Flickr photos, scientists at Cornell University made some surprising discoveries: Not only did the world's most photographed cities (and the most captured landmark in each) emerge, but also so did the most common angles for shooting each place. There are some American cities in the top twenty-five; and some Californian c…
1st most photographed city: New York
Landmark: Empire State Building.
Found the source[1], the golden gate bridge did not make their list of top 7 in san francisco. Which could be due to the methodology but it is important to note that there is a problem of selection bias in the article, which may artificially inflate SF's prominence. Its worth pointing out that for NYC landmarks the apple store was ranked higher than liberty island (AKA statue of liberty). Francophiles can rest easy, the Eifel Tower crushed the competition.
[1] https://www.cs.cornell.edu/~dph/papers/photomap-www09.pdf
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Not sure which was the more dangerous part, potential encounter with a water craft, or potential encounter with pathogens or PCBs. FWIW, http://www.health.ny.gov/environmental/outdoors/hudson_river...
I have been BASE jumping for quite a while and within that community there is a strong thread of leave no trace. It reduces the legal risk, eliminates property damage, and keeps it open for everyone else. Back to Joe, I found his blog and saw a picture of him setting off fireworks on top of a crane I had just climbed and jumped in the city I used to live. I kept thinking the increased security probably should have le…
"He does not walk to the beat of normal society's drum." ...says the base jumper.
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People committing suicide would tend to jump off the bridge into the water? There are, very roughly, one person committing suicide per fortnight from the Goldengate Bridge. One idea to slow down that number o fdeaths is to install a big net. It'll hurt when people land on it, and that might be enough to snap them out of the impulsive decision to end their lives. The net would cost about $45m. Some people might feel t…
I'm actually really curious if anyone has done some sort of study into the relationship between Maslow's hierarchy of needs and suicide. I honestly wouldn't be surprised if suicide rates go up as you go up the pyramid because you're afforded more time for existential thought.
Some Googling turned up this study, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16420711, "The association between suicide and the socio-economic characteristics of geographical areas: a systematic review". At first I thought their conclusions were clear, but I find I have difficulty understanding subsequent sentences with respect to each other. I'm afraid I would need to read the whole paper to understand exactly what their conclusions are.
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People committing suicide would tend to jump off the bridge into the water? There are, very roughly, one person committing suicide per fortnight from the Goldengate Bridge. One idea to slow down that number o fdeaths is to install a big net. It'll hurt when people land on it, and that might be enough to snap them out of the impulsive decision to end their lives. The net would cost about $45m. Some people might feel t…
not sure what this had to do the parent comment, but if there's a net, people will find other ways. It's like making prostitution illegal, did it really cut down on the number of people having sex? Of course not.
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The bridge is classified as a national monument, which would protect it as federal property.
I can't seem to find a single thing online that supports your statement, either concerning the monument part or federal jurisdiction of the bridge.
http://www.cr.nps.gov/archeology/sites/antiquities/Monuments...
I'm assuming you made an error.