Posted: 8/20/2007 4:06:27 AM EDT
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If a guy or gal is on a bridge, contemplating suicide, and the police are trying to talk her down... If you yell JUMP, and he/she does..... What can you be charged with? We've got 4 or 5 bridges over the Mississippi, and a surplus of jumpers this summer. |
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I figured a person could get charged with obstruction of justice, or interference. Possibly malicious mischief. Or all of the above. Here, when a jumper jumps, the jumper dies. So it wouldn't surprise me if someone yelling "jump" could be charged with something relating to the death. Yesterday a lady was on one of the arches of a bridge, threatening to jump while talking to someone on a cell phone. My first thought was she was probably on the phone with a boyfriend. And I wondered if he could be charged if he said "go ahead and jump". |
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I wish we could get away with telling people that. *sigh* It's way more paperwork when they actually do it though. (I know suicide is no laughing matter. However anyone that ACTUALLY want to commit suicide isn't gunna sit on a bridge long enough for anyone to talk them down. Their going to climb up and jump...or shoot themselves or whatever. No veiled threats no bullshit. Just get er done.) |
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8e-vgQSqNtA Why would you even think of saying such a thing? |
Is it? That is kind of my question. |
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