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    The Beginning Part of This Posting:

      •  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.

      •  My Fellow Americans, they are actually going ahead with construction!

      •  Some politician or some politician's brother-in-law is going to make a lot of money off this craziness.

      •  I know some of you think I make things up to make my Blog entertaining.

      •  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.

      •  This is not one of those times.

      •  I say again, they are actually going ahead with construction!

      •  Actual installation will begin in mid 2018 and be finished in 2021.

      •  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

    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.

      •  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.

      •  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?

      •  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? ...

      •  Nets under all tall buildings, trees and ladders?

      •  Outlawing all tall buildings, trees and ladders?

      •  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?