Man and woman (no kid *edited*) jump off Bond Bridge in KC

[Phobia]

Developing.

KANSAS CITY, MO (KCTV) -
Northbound Interstate 35 is closed after three people apparently jumped off the Bond Bridge.

The Kansas City Fire Department says a man, woman and child apparently leaped into the Missouri River.

Traffic is being diverted onto Levee Road.

Rescue crews launched boats.
http://www.kctv5.com/story/21758048/traffic-re

[Discuss Thrower]

N b4 teh PowersBoothe

[Dayze]

let's not jump to conclusions. Invstigators are still diving into the the details.

[loochy]

Meh, they jumped off of a bridge.

[Bump]

I bet they wanted to see jesus

[B14ckmon]

Not surprising. How many people here tried to slit wrist after the Alex trade?

[Dante84]

The Reed Family?

[KC_Lee]

And a child?!?! WTF?!?!

[Bugeater]

the fuck?

[Dayze]

they must have heard Maneri was released.

[gblowfish]

The Entirely Suicidal Family Outing....

[Dayze]

I just pray to God they belong to Westboro.

[Mr. Laz]

keeping it All in the family

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[blaise]

Something tells me the child didn't jump.

[HonestChieffan]

Probably in a post airline travel rage. After yesterday i can relate

[bevischief]

It was a bonding experience today on the Bond bridge.

[BigBeauford]

Wait guys, don't jump! We signed our Long Snapper after all!

[Dayze]

official. The terrorists have won.

[Discuss Thrower]

Bond bridge? Perhaps a poorly thought out Skyfall reenactment?

[OnTheWarpath15]

Might as well jump.

http://dev.uclaradio.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/vanhalen_1984_fcover.jpg

[BigBeauford]

Incoming most elaborate insurance fraud of all time.

[KCUnited]

Bridge To Theirdeathia

[Bugeater]

OWP beat me to the obvious one.


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[Ace Gunner]

they must have heard Maneri was released.

no way. "geno @ #1" fans FTW

[loochy]

This family jumped off a bridge and I'm like YEAH WHATEVAH

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[Ace Gunner]

wait. where's bosschief.

[boogblaster]

stupid people shouldn't breed .....

[Demonpenz]

Jumped from bond bridge to rainbow bridge.

[Discuss Thrower]

Jumped from bond bridge to rainbow bridge.

Something something something beautiful soul something something something mid-air...

[Deberg_1990]

They should have at least waited until the season starts to see how well Alex Smith plays

[ptlyon]

Gravity: It's a bitch

[REDHOTGTO]

the family that jumps together...................

[Beef Supreme]

So they jumped off a bridge....into water? Um...I've done that...was fun.

[B14ckmon]

Bridge To Theirdeathia

Stop the flashbacks you're going to make me cry.

[Dayze]

they fell apart in mid-air.

[ArrowheadMagic]

Imagine if they broke apart..in mid air...... er I have nothing.

[Dayze]

So they jumped off a bridge....into water? Um...I've done that...was fun.

I think, if I'm not mistaken, the Bond bridge is 700' high.

[ArrowheadMagic]

they fell apart in mid-air.

4321

[Discuss Thrower]

I think, if I'm not mistaken, the Bond bridge is 700' high.

I see what you did there

[Dayze]

4321

:D
great minds....

[ArrowheadMagic]

Its not like Colorado St is that good.

[Otter]

This is the height of stupidity. I hope they took the time to ponder the gravity of their decision.

[Hog's Gone Fishin]

Wow! You people are making fun of this. This is just horrible....















That nobody got pictures !

[Dayze]

This is the height of stupidity. I hope they took the time to ponder the gravity of their decision.

well done. 2 in 1.

[houstonwhodat]

Why?

What the hell is wrong with people?

Surprised they didn't bring the dog with them too.

[Molitoth]

The Child probably initiated the jump, so that he could rid himself of stupid f*cking parents.

[Dayze]

the wife atttempted it once before. She's gotten much better since then.

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[ArrowheadMagic]

falling in love has a new meaning.

[houstonwhodat]

Guess they jumped to conclusions.

[houstonwhodat]

This could almost be another "add three words" thread.

[Hammock Parties]

and yet cassel lives

[Dayze]

after much deliberation, they decided to take the plunge.

[Titty Meat]

Maybe they just wanted to go for a dip? Heard the father was Greg Luganus.

No more family Monopoly games.

[Dayze]

what was the kid doing out of school? These parents are terrible.

[ptlyon]

what was the kid doing out of school? These parents are terrible.

Spring brake?

[loochy]

The were depressed after reading Of Mice and Men - apparently it was the abridged version

[loochy]

Their kid really got off to a jump start in life

[Dayze]

Spring brake?

slow down. we don't want to assume.

[Nickel D]

They originally were going to leap off a building onto a street but they wanted to first test the waters.


Wait a sec....


Did this happen in the middle of the night while they were walking in their sleep?


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSq4B_zHqPM

[Dayze]

or they have really poor depth perception.

[ptlyon]

what was the kid doing out of school? These parents are terrible.

This country is going over a cliff at break neck speed

[blaise]

"You didn't tie the bungee cord?"

[Predarat]

They should rename it the Darwin Bridge, and alllow maybe even encourage more people to do the same thing.

[Discuss Thrower]

This country is going over a cliff at break neck speed

Some people have really gone off the deep end.

[Otter]

Some people have really gone off the deep end.

I refuse to get caught up in this threads current.

[cookster50]

If they really took a child with them, that is sickening. The kid isn't a gladiator.

[WhawhaWhat]

This is the result of someone starting another thread about Geno Smith.

[Titty Meat]

*monopoly*

March Madness has started with a splash.

[Otter]

If they really took a child with them, that is sickening. The kid isn't a gladiator.

Gladiator? He told me he wishes he never went down on her!

[OrtonsPiercedTaint]

Bi-polar bear club.

We must laugh so we can't hurt.

[Otter]

Bi-polar bear club.

We must laugh so we can't hurt.

I'm not laughing. This really irrigates me.

[ptlyon]

So why are they diverting traffic anyway? Not like anybody is going to run them over...

[Mr_Tomahawk]

They jumped with a baby?

Fuck those 'parents'.

Makes me sick.

[Old Dog]

This thread leaves me with a sinking feeling.

[Otter]

They jumped with a baby?

**** those 'parents'.

Makes me sick.

Oh, cry me a river.

[Rausch]

This thread leaves me with a sinking feeling.

You only feel sympathy for the child.

When you consider that this child could be alive, raised by parents who think killing themselves and their kid (here is where I suspect the parenting skills may lead to less than a productive member of society) is a good idea, and their income is low.

Well.

I'll be blunt: if even you think your genes shouldn't be passed on you're probably right...

[Otter]

You only feel sympathy for the child.

When you consider that this child could be alive, raised by parents who think killing themselves and their kid (here is where I suspect the parenting skills may lead to less than a productive member of society) is a good idea, and their income is low.

Well.

I'll be blunt: if even you think your genes shouldn't be passed on you're probably right...

You certainly plunge into wisdom in-between your whirlpools of humor.

[gblowfish]

There's been no definite confirmation that a child was involved. There were two adults for sure, some witnesses reported that the woman was carrying something, some thought it might be a child. No confirmation yet.
It'll be awhile before they figure this out.

[loochy]

You only feel sympathy for the child.

When you consider that this child could be alive, raised by parents who think killing themselves and their kid (here is where I suspect the parenting skills may lead to less than a productive member of society) is a good idea, and their income is low.

Well.

I'll be blunt: if even you think your genes shouldn't be passed on you're probably right...

I don't get it. Where is your jumping/river/bridge pun? I can't find it. :shrug:

[Mav]

Not surprising. How many people here tried to slit wrist after the Alex trade?

No more than are going to slit their wrist after you dont get geno.....and have to watch blaine gabbert for another year.

[Discuss Thrower]

You only feel sympathy for the child.

When you consider that this child could be alive, raised by parents who think killing themselves and their kid (here is where I suspect the parenting skills may lead to less than a productive member of society) is a good idea, and their income is low.

Well.

I'll be blunt: if even you think your genes shouldn't be passed on you're probably right...

Or if you take a more bleeding heart ethical standpoint: if the parents off themselves and leave the kid alive for adoption the kid could be successful..

[Otter]

There's been no definite confirmation that a child was involved. There were two adults for sure, some witnesses reported that the woman was carrying something, some thought it might be a child. No confirmation yet.
It'll be awhile before they figure this out.

All we could do is wait and sea while hoping this doesn't cause a huge wake in the community.

[Old Dog]

Damn, mine only elicited a thought out response from Rausch....I was only trying to be punny too.........I've failed. Guess I'll go jump off of a bridge now.

[Frosty]

There's been no definite confirmation that a child was involved. There were two adults for sure, some witnesses reported that the woman was carrying something, some thought it might be a child. No confirmation yet.
It'll be awhile before they figure this out.

If they find out that she actually had a dog, you'll REALLY hear the outrage then.

[Phobia]

Channel 5 has retracted their "child" story.

[Rausch]

You certainly plunge into wisdom in-between your whirlpools of humor.

Heh.

This great wisdom I pass on to you.

Or the next guy. Really depends on who can afford the good scotch.

Or if my wife is around.

http://i.imgur.com/JFxxE.png

[loochy]

Channel 5 has retracted their "child" story.

nothing like including "child" and "death" to drum up some news

[gblowfish]

They jumped off the Kit Bond Bridge because they knew a Republican would never offer a social safety net.

[Predarat]

Though I can see why you would be scared enough to jump off a bridge like that if you were being chases around by one of those Gubbment Drones.

[Phobia]

nothing like including "child" and "death" to drum up some news

Well, that's the angle eyewitnesses gave them initially. Can't blame the news station for bad info obtained from eyewitnesses.

[Otter]

nothing like including "child" and "death" to drum up some news

No kidding. This story seems fishy. The facts are barely treading water.

[Rausch]

I don't get it. Where is your jumping/river/bridge pun? I can't find it. :shrug:

I'm a bit preoccupied.

We just switched over pharmacies and they're ok with giving me two different narcotics but my wife's albuterol inhalers seem to be the bridge they can't cross.

I'm livid...just.....*whatever*

Whatever.

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[Mr. Laz]

False and misleading thread title....


reported

[loochy]

I'm a bit preoccupied.

We just switched over pharmacies and they're ok with giving me two different narcotics but my wife's albuterol inhalers seem to be the bridge they can't cross.

I'm livid...just.....*whatever*

Whatever.

http://gifninja.com/animatedgifs/382553/destruction.gif

:hmmm::D

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[Rausch]

It's ok - credit me with psychic abilities later...

[Rausch]

:hmmm::D

A pretty standard asthma inhaler and we're calling her doc back and having trouble with her getting it at the pharmacy.

FRT I don't have/get pain killers. Just...it's just ****ing retarded. I'm no pill addict but my scrpt is a highly valued pill on the street and I can get it just fine.
She wants a ****ing suck J so she can breathe and she's getting the hard time like she's running a scam.

Just...this shit just amazes me...

[Rasputin]

I think, if I'm not mistaken, the Bond bridge is 700' high.

Yes you are mistaken Dayze, the Bond Bridge is 00700' high.

[Dayze]

Yes you are mistaken Dayze, the Bond Bridge is 00700' high.

:banghead::doh!:

[gblowfish]

I've never understood shit like this. If you want to off yourself, why not do a Kurt Cobain, or suck on a tailpipe in your garage, or stick your head in the oven? Why do you have to disrupt traffic?

[Spott]

They were looking for Ed Reed's brother.

[In58men]

They finally heard about the Alex Smith signing

[Rausch]

I've never understood shit like this. If you want to off yourself, why not do a Kurt Cobain, or suck on a tailpipe in your garage, or stick your head in the oven? Why do you have to disrupt traffic?

Cobain is the way to go.

Private, effective, and very little room for error...

[J Diddy]

I've never understood shit like this. If you want to off yourself, why not do a Kurt Cobain, or suck on a tailpipe in your garage, or stick your head in the oven? Why do you have to disrupt traffic?

Because if your whole life is spent feeling that you are nothing and has had no meaning it is your one chance to become headline news.

[Rausch]

Or if you take a more bleeding heart ethical standpoint: if the parents off themselves and leave the kid alive for adoption the kid could be successful..

You still have to deal with the 50% heredity/50% environment argument.

And in this case 50% of that equation don't believe life is worth living.

And 15% of that kids life is influenced by the failure that was his/her parents.

It's sad, it pulls at you to think about, but odds are that kid would end up working with me or someone like me...

[Frazod]

I've never understood shit like this. If you want to off yourself, why not do a Kurt Cobain, or suck on a tailpipe in your garage, or stick your head in the oven? Why do you have to disrupt traffic?

I hope there's a special place in hell for people who do this. For me, it's idiots who commit suicide by commuter train. Three of these pricks offed themselves on my line in the past two weeks. I only got stuck in one of the messes, but my 40 minute train ride turned into a 2 hour 45 minute bore fest, exacerabated by screwed up temperature controls that made the car temperatures about 80 degrees. Didn't get home until after 8:00.

I hope the prick suffered, but he probably didn't feel a thing.

They should seriously have a hot line for people contemplating train suicide - somebody can go to their house and give them a handful of sleeping pills or a sawed-off shotgun with two shells.

[Dave Lane]

Gravity: It's a bitch

It's just a theory.



Like evolution.

[Rausch]

It's just a theory.

No, it's not...

[Dave Lane]

No, it's not...

Yes it is.

Its not fully understood so it IS the theory of gravity.

[Frosty]

Cobain is the way to go.

Private, effective, and very little room for error...

It also leaves a huge, gross mess that some poor sap has to clean up.

[Dave Lane]

Gravity is a physical phenomenon which is obvious all around us.

As such, it's begging for a scientific theory to describe it accurately and consistently. The rules within a theory are called "laws" and the inverse square law of the Newtonian theory of gravitation does describe gravity extremely well. Loosely stated:

"Two things always attract in direct proportion of their masses and in inverse proportion of the square of the distance between them."

However, the Newtonian theory does not provide the ultimate law for gravity. We do know that General Relativity (GR) provides more accurate experimental predictions in extreme conditions (e.g., a residual discrepancy in the motion of the perihelion of Mercury is not explained by Newtonian theory but is accounted for by GR).

[J Diddy]

It also leaves a huge, gross mess that some poor sap has to clean up.

Therefore it is not only creating jobs, but, in some cases, opening up one too.

Suicide: Good for the economy!

[gblowfish]

Usually KC bridge jumpers wash up somewhere around Liberty, Napoleon or Lexington.

[Dayze]

They were looking for Ed Reed's brother.

brilliant. lol

[ptlyon]

Usually KC bridge jumpers wash up somewhere around Liberty, Napoleon or Lexington.

ROAD TRIP!

[BlackHelicopters]

Westboro Church nuts?

[DTLB58]

If they find out that she actually had a dog, you'll REALLY hear the outrage then.

This.

We are becoming a society that cares more for pets that human life.

[Dayze]

there are quite a few people in which I'd rather my dog be alive than them.

lol.

[Ajaxxxxxx]

I have no doubt they chose death rather than live under Obama's Communist America. I only wish they would have taken the mayor with them.

[ptlyon]

there are quite a few people in which I'd rather my dog be alive than them.

lol.

This

[ptlyon]

I have no doubt they chose death rather than live under Obama's Communist America. I only wish they would have taken the mayor with them.

And this. Excellent 1st post Sir!

[digger]

Usually KC bridge jumpers wash up somewhere around Liberty, Napoleon or Lexington.

Jumpers Or Hookers......

[loochy]

This.

We are becoming a society that cares more for pets that human life.

Well when humans are this dumb, yeah we care more for pets than these idiots' lives.

At least dogs don't try to kill themselves. WTF

[Gonzo]

I have no doubt they chose death rather than live under Obama's Communist America. I only wish they would have taken the mayor with them.

Keep your DC shit in the DC, please.

(Not that I disagree... However, if we were Commies, our economy would be a lot better. Ask China)

[Iowanian]

ROAD TRIP!

Road Trip.

Vern, you bring the comb.

[Prison Bitch]

This.

We are becoming a society that cares more for pets that human life.

That's what happens when every televised political debate is now centered on what the pro-life candidate did to infuriate the entire voter populace with his case for life. This is the natural conclusion.

[BigCatDaddy]

This.

We are becoming a society that cares more for pets that human life.


Dogs are what people should aspire to be.

[gblowfish]

Father, daughter presumed dead after bridge jump
By CHRISTINE VENDEL and ROBERT A. CRONKLETON
The Kansas City Star

A father and daughter are presumed dead after two people jumped from the Bond Bridge into the Missouri River while holding hands Thursday morning.

Kansas city police closed lanes of southbound and northbound Interstates 35/29 at the Bond Bridge this morning while emergency workers searched for two people in the Missouri River. (March 21, 2013 Video by Keith Myers | The Kansas City Star)

Witnesses told police the pair got out of a truck about 11:35 a.m., climbed over the railing and flung themselves into the water about 120 feet below. The woman was holding something in a blanket that was initially reported to possibly be an infant. But police later said they didn’t think a baby was involved. They think she was holding the family’s Chihuahua.

If the victims are who police think they are, the father was in his 50s, and the woman was in her 30s. They lived in a mobile home south of Kansas City in a rural area, police said.

Police towed the truck abandoned on the bridge and got a search warrant Thursday night to look inside for evidence. Police recovered the father’s cellphone but not much else of evidentiary value. The truck was registered to the daughter.

Police closed northbound and southbound lanes of Interstates 35/29 at the Bond Bridge around noon while emergency workers searched the river by boats for more than an hour. The Kansas City Fire Department also put spotters on the Chouteau Bridge and Interstate 435 farther down the river. Fire Department’s rescue companies have timed the current and said it takes about 15 minutes for a body to float from the Bond Bridge to the Chouteau Bridge.

Fire officials said victims are more likely to survive a jump into cold water as opposed to warm water, so they put in a full rescue effort. But they didn’t find the victims alive or dead. The Missouri Highway Patrol estimated the water’s temperature was in the 40s.

Crews searched until about 1 p.m., when they pulled the boats out of the river. All northbound lanes reopened by 12:40 p.m., and the southbound lanes were cleared a few minutes later.

Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/2013/03/21/4134573/kansas-city-rescue-crews-searching.html#storylink=cpy

[stevieray]

120 feet?

damn, that would be like hitting concrete.

[gblowfish]

Poor dog didn't do anything to deserve this. I'm sure he'd have been fine living in the trailer park....

[Ace Gunner]

Keep your DC shit in the DC, please.

(Not that I disagree... However, if we were Commies, our economy would be a lot better. Ask China)

(where chines typically work on skyscraper construction for a meal and manufacturing employees make a whopping $3/hr when they aren't rioting or throwing themselves out of windows)

[ptlyon]

Well that settles it.

This was obviously a father/daughter "relations" incident.

The two had a chihuahua together and the mother found out.

In their undying love for each other & their offspring they jumped off the bridge, hand in hand. If they couldn't be together, they didn't want to be apart.

Case closed.

[gblowfish]

The chihuahua told them to do it...

[boogblaster]

maybe they found atlantis ...

[Brando]

Yo Quiero incestuous suicide!
http://www.dogchannel.com/images/dailynews/0728-taco_bell_chihuahua.jpg

[OrtonsPiercedTaint]

Strange stuff

[bevischief]

Meth.

[crossbow]

Bobbie Gentry and the Body Bags:

http://youtu.be/1Lk2VOL3tRU

[MOhillbilly]

Billy Joe McCallister

[TimeForWasp]

Poor dog didn't do anything to deserve this. I'm sure he'd have been fine living in the trailer park....

The dog probably swam to shore and ran home.

[Ace Gunner]

I have always hated chihuahuas so if that part is true then this is a win

[Phobia]

It couldn't have been a chihuahua. If they lived in a trailer park it was obviously a pit bull.

[Al Bundy]

120 feet?

damn, that would be like hitting concrete.

It is. Idiots jump off the sunshine skyway in Tampa all the time.

[Simply Red]

apparently later in the search; they thought they saw the Dog struggling to swim, turns out it was just a catfish jumping from the water.

[Rooskieflooskie]

apparently later in the search; they thought they saw the Dog struggling to swim, turns out it was just a catfish jumping from the water.

cool story:thumb:

[Simply Red]

cool story:thumb:

:LOL: I know - it's was pretty bad.