Everything I’ve read about them states that they’re specifically designed to be non-lethal.
I agree that on the surface it sounds inhumane. But if it didn’t hurt much, just think of all the Tiktokers that would turn this into a challenge.
100%.
Several people have jumped into them. Some have been rescued from there, but “a handful” had “jumped into the net and then jumped to their death,” Mulligan said.
He declined to say how many. It will take a year or two of data to fully understand the system’s effectiveness, he said.
In the decade beginning in 2011, bridge officials said, there were 335 confirmed suicides, or an average of 33.5 per year. In 2022, as the first nets were being strung, there were 22. Through October this year, as more nets have been added, there were 13.
“If we save 30 lives a year, and not 31, it’s worth it for those 30 people who we saved,” Mulligan said. “And that’s every year. To greatly reduce the number of people dying in the community is a worthy goal. And to achieve that is success.”
I’m no fan of Elon. But some of us rely on Starlink to get connectivity on our phones because not even LTE covers the area.
They voted for a hurricane?
I’m refreshing the page but it’s not getting any fuller!
Assuming you aren’t petrified, we’ve got some incredible new views we bet you thought were previously impossible!