Stupid Takes a Lot of Explaining
The Beginning Part of This Posting:Ø This is an updated status on 2 earlier blog postings (included below) about the Construction of a Giant Net along the Golden Gate Bridge to prevent people who want to jump off of the bridge to commit suicide from committing suicide once they jump off of the bridge.
Ø My Fellow Americans, they are actually going ahead with construction!
Ø Some politician or some politician’s brother-in-law is going to make a lot of money off this craziness.
Ø I know some of you think I make things up to make my Blog entertaining.
Ø Those of you who think this way think this way based on the flimsy evidence that I have actually been known to make things up to make my Blog entertaining.
Ø This is not one of those times.
Ø I say again, they are actually going ahead with construction!
Ø Actual installation will begin in mid 2018 and be finished in 2021.
Ø In my first blog (below) about this craziness I said we had been told that the construction of the net would cost between $40 and $50 Million. I speculated the final cost would be closer to the $50 Million number. Later I read that the price tag had risen to $75 Million. On April 13, 2017 at the Golden Gate Bridge Suicide Deterrent Commemoration Ceremony the cost is listed as $211 Million.
If you care to read all about the Golden Gate Bridge Suicide Deterrent Commemoration Ceremony in agonizing and minute detail, click on this link... http://goldengate.org/news/bridge/suicide-deterrent-commemoration-ceremony.php
The quote I like the best (not really) is, “If these measures save just one life…all the hard work will all be worth it...”
I contend that there is no way to know it will save one $211 Million Life...
Ø The determined suicide-inclined person might just go shoot himself or go into his bathroom and slit his wrist or take a bunch of pills or jump off of another bridge.
Ø The determined suicide-inclined person might look over at the net and fear that he might get all scuffed up by falling into the net and instead go shoot himself or go into his bathroom and slit his wrist or take a bunch of pills or jump off of another bridge.
Ø What do you wanna bet that in the future we will be seeing reports about how many lives were saved because no one tried to jump off of the bridge because of the net?
Ø Those Lives Saved Estimates just might rise up to 211 Million!
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Middle Part of This Posting:
Here is my first Blog Posting about this silliness on October 15, 2008...
Finding Another Way
If someone wants to commit suicide, they will find another way.
I read where the city of San Francisco is considering a stainless steel net under the Golden Gate Bridge to prevent people from committing suicide by jumping off the bridge.
This net will cost somewhere between $40 & $50 million. What do you want to bet it will end up being closer to that $50 million figure?
There is no law that requires a person who commits suicide to jump off of the Golden Gate Bridge. If someone wants to kill himself, there are a lot of other ways to get the job done. What is next for the suicide prevention minded city council of San Francisco? …
Ø Nets under all tall buildings, trees and ladders?
Ø Outlawing all tall buildings, trees and ladders?
Ø Requiring all tall buildings, trees and ladders be short?
I may be one step ahead of the city council but I wonder if they have thought of the possibility that the suicide minded person might just scramble across the stainless steel net and continue their plunge?
I know what they could do if the jumpers started crawling across the net... They could shoot them!
Would I kid u?
SmartFella?
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The Last Part of This Posting:
Here is my second Blog Posting about this silliness on June 29, 2014...
If You Persist In Stupidity, One Day You Will Be Declared Certifiably Stupid
I wrote a Blog on October 15, 2008 about a Not So Brilliant Idea those Not So Brilliant People in the San Francisco Area were thinking of doing. They were contemplating putting a Gigantic Net underneath the Golden Gate Bridge to catch Would Be Suicide People before they became Actual Suicide People.
As I pecked that one out I was under a lot of pressure to get it posted quickly because I was sure that the Not So Brilliant People were going to publically state that the Golden Net Idea was dumb and they were not going to install it and it would have taken the wind out of my Foolishness...Or Is It Posting.
Boy was I wrong. It turns out that the Not So Brilliant People have remained committed to their crazy idea all this time and they are getting close to bringing their dream into fruition. My newspaper now tells me, “San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge may soon be less of a magnet for people trying to commit suicide, as regional officials consider a plan to install mesh barriers beneath the historic orange span to catch jumpers before they hit the water.”
Forrest Gump tried to warn us. Sometimes it seems that Forrest Gump was the only not stupid one among us and he was never really among us because he never actually was. He gave us, Stupid Is As Stupid Does.
How about a few Catchy Silly (Or are they?) Sayings for the future?...
Ø Stupid is stupid.
Ø Stupid never goes away.
Ø Stupid does as stupid does.
Ø Stupid...Not Just a Temporary Condition but a Way of Life.
Ø Stupid is our most important product.
Ø Why be smart? Stupid is a lot easier.
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I bet you never thought you would get to the end of this Foolishness. Well you are almost done. Below is a rendering of what the Net will look like. Be honest. Don’t you think a Determined Suicide Person would be able to crawl across or roll across this “Barrier” to continue his dying?
Heck, he might just bounce off the net and continue his dying before the Golden Gate Sharpshooters get to shoot him.
Would I kid u?
Smartfella
