TO THE 20 OR 30 people who walked by a man sobbing uncontrollably and screaming for his life in the middle of the Burnside Bridge, you suck. You ignored the rope tied around his neck. You pretended not to hear him crying and screaming that he wanted to die. That he wanted to jump. That he tried to hang himself. And to the 10 or 15 people who pretended they didn’t see anything as I was trying to help, you are pieces of shit. You had to step over my bag and his belongings. You had to avoid eye contact with my dog. Go home and vote for Trump, you soulless pieces of shit. To the jogger who grabbed the man off of the railing while I was calling 911, and then hugged the bawling man and told him it will be okay, you are a saint. You hugged him for five solid minutes until the EMTs showed up. He was crying uncontrollably. He smelled bad. He tried to climb the railing again. He was screaming. You didn’t let go. You are amazing. Thank you. The rest of you spineless bastards can suck a fuck.—Anonymous
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I’m glad you were there to help. OTOH, one of the first things you learn in a lifesaving course is to be careful about being dragged under by the person you are trying to save. Don’t be so quick to condemn those who walked past the obviously disturbed person threatening to jump off a bridge. Maybe those people were not emotionally or physically equipped to deal with the situation; I’m sure most of them were not so equipped.
Again, kudos to you and the other Samaritan who helped that poor soul. I don’t know if you’re a religious person, ANONYMOUS, but if you are, you should probably throw some more offerings into the plate on Sunday or pray extra hard this week. Because things could have very easily gone quite another way.