On Bus Trips, we get together at the Eastbank Esplanade to have some breakfast before we all pack into the bus and go canvass for whomever wherever (today it was for Nick Kahl and Greg Matthews in East County). The Eastbank Esplanade is right on the Willamette River beside the Hawthorne Bridge. Yesterday morning we showed up there and were doing the usual routine only this time a guy decided to jump off the Hawthorne Bridge into the Willamette River. No one saw him jump except for Christina.
Quick side story: we have been discussing for days now if it would kill you to jump off one of the bridges into the river. Our conclusion was that it wouldn't kill you unless you landed awkwardly and broke your legs then drown. Are we morbid? Yes, but we're smart people and this was the consensus. Well, the verdict is in: you will not die.
The guy treaded water for something like seven minutes while the emergency vehicles showed up. We have no clue if it was a suicide attempt or a stunt, but he was definitely alive. He must feel stupid if it was a suicide attempt. The emergency operator even asked whoever called if it was suicide or a prank, and the person who called was really puzzled by the question because how were they supposed to know after the guy had already jumped and was 300 feet away in the water?
I must say one final thing. The best part of this whole event was that Ian - the Bus Project's media relations guru - was on the Fox 12 news people to get them to cover the Bus Trip seeing that they were already onsite. He was working hard to capitalize, and i'm not going to lie, it was pretty damn funny and he's the shit for trying.
I wonder if there's some link to Flugtag. Maybe that guy saw the other stupid white people dunking in the water and decided to give it a go the next day.
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