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NYguy
February 18th, 2004, 10:31 AM
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Stern
February 18th, 2004, 10:53 AM
Management should follow a similar policy as major league baseball does by not acknowledging field runners. There's a reason jumpers gravitate to the ESB and they should not be aknowledged for their self deprecating stunt.
Ninjahedge
February 18th, 2004, 12:06 PM
You can acnowledge it, just don't FEATURE it.
ZippyTheChimp
February 18th, 2004, 12:48 PM
MAN'S DREAM TO BE A HIT IN NEW YORK ENCOUNTERS A SETBACK
fioco
February 18th, 2004, 01:01 PM
Zippy, if this is your audition to be a copywriter, you're hired! Wit with a twist.

Stern's point is not to glorify the act with publicity. A Toronto bridge across the Don Valley attracts suicides like moths to a light and necessitated an expensive apparatus to thwart them. (If I'm correct, it's even more maudlin in that it "catches" them more than dissuades them.) It would be good policy to refuse to release the names of jumpers, but that alone would not deter suicides. Iconic landmarks will always have an attraction for such fatalists.