Wednesday, January 31, 2007

What is wrong with this picture?

Jumpers leave workers sleepless in Seattle

Some jumpers hit the water; others land on the pavement or other solid ground. Either way, they almost always die.

The neighborhood beneath the bridge used to be docks and warehouses, and the suicides went largely unnoticed. But during the technology boom of the past two decades, it morphed into a trendy area full of office buildings, shops and restaurants, and the bodies began to fall where people could see them.