"Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Jon Bon Jovi and a video production assistant persuaded a woman standing on the ledge of a pedestrian bridge in Nashville to come back over the railing to safety."
September 12, 2024
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For those wondering, the bridge is 16 feet over the Cumberland River. If you jump from that bridge, you're going to get wet.
Thinking about how the lyrics to "I'll be there for you" tie so well to this heroic act, I thought of other words that connect; cosmic, cosmetic, and committal.
Oh shoot. Now Vom Jovi is going to have to endorse Kamala 😅
That's pretty cool. I think it takes some courage to intervene in a situation like that.
The woman may not have been serious. However she now knows people do care. Plus it was Bon Jovi.
Great job.
Such kindness and lack of ego. How refreshing.
“Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these… dogs and cats
Have to wonder if he said,
"Take my hand, we'll make it, I swear!"
Has this changed anyone’s “Bruce or Bon Jovi” vote?
JSM
Current data suggests about 17' of water depth, so likely survivable, if that's what you were trying to do. Considering how she is dressed, I doubt she was pulling a stunt to play in the water, so the height of the fall is a bit irrelevant to the intent of both the jumper and the way Bon Jovi intervened.
I've talked someone out of a suicide. Neighbor came over and told me daughter in law was about to hang herself. She felt trapped in a relationship with her husband (and mother-in-law, who just lost her husband) and a child. The child was what kept her from leaving the relationship. What went through my mind was the lyrics from "Me and Bobby McGee"; "freedom's just another word for nothin' left to lose", and I turned the notion around for them. Leaving the relationship and suicide notionally were the same in terms of leaving the child. If they were now prepared to do that and lose the child and everything else, then they had the freedom to leave the relationship. That was enough to snap them out of it. We moved away a couple of years later, but the couple had mended the relationship and still together.
Monday is a memorial service for another neighbor that I was closer with from that neighborhood. He eventually had an affair and left his wife for one of his coworkers, just as his child grew old enough to be on his own. The original couple had been officially divorced for 2 years. About a week ago, the former neighbor sent a text to his current lover saying "I'm sorry", and then shot himself. Only explanation was he had problems with depression, had a prescription for it, and the new gf was encouraging him not to use the medication, which seems a bad idea if you have a legit prescription for it.
Good on Jon for taking the time and making a difference.
He won the debate!
Now I will have to go out buy another copy of "Slippery When Wet."
Regardless of whether it was a real desire to die (and not everyone properly assesses all the variables in their decision of how to leave this mortal coil) or just the proverbial "cry for help" on the part of the woman, Bongiovanni and his producer taking the interest and the time to intervene was a Good and Noble thing.
Has this changed anyone’s “Bruce or Bon Jovi” vote?
It has always been Bon Jovi. Now it's not even close.
He won the debate!
I propose we switch Trump for Bom Jovi.
Livin' on a Prayer.
Go! Yer halfway there
Go! jumpin’ on a prayer
Good for him. Anyone who tries to stop a suicide, even if the suicide is unlikely to succeed, is a hero in my book. Life is short and precious.
"This seems like an appropriate use of my time and talent." - Jon Bon Jovi, 30 Rock
Very commendable for both men to step up and help.
But how would passersby know that?
Good on him. At least he's good at being a Samaritan, eh?
According to Wiki, Bon Jovi is one of the Democratic Party's most stalwart supporters and has even been appointed to a public position by the Obama administration.
Sadly, Bon Jovi will not likely run as a Republican.
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