Did someone fall into the spanish arch?

m83 · 11-09-2007 11:36pm #1

I was driving past the spanish arch tonight (tues) around 9.20. There were two fire trucks, some police and alot of by standers looking into the water.

Anybody know what happened? Hope it wasn't too serious.

Karl Hungus · 11-09-2007 11:43pm

Did someone fall into the Spanish Arch? As in the actual arch itself? Was he drunk and toppled backwards into it?

Oh you mean the water by the Spanish Arch. Gotcha.

DRakE · 11-09-2007 11:58pm

How do you fall into an arch?

challengemaster · 12-09-2007 12:02am

you fall backwards and do the crab?

m83 · 12-09-2007 12:03am

wtf? get a life, this is a serious thread.

Karl Hungus · 12-09-2007 12:04am

m83 wrote:

wtf? get a life, this is a serious thread.

It's a valid question. You asked if someone fell into the Spanish Arch.

challengemaster · 12-09-2007 12:09am

walt0r · 12-09-2007 12:09am

I was walking home past the Spanish Arch and saw the cops and fire brigade all coming at once. Was a bit mental. Loads of people around, a lot of Spanish students. From what I could hear, a garda told a few people that a woman "jumped" in. I'm not sure of the details. But they were searching with flashlights for a good 10 minutes, then I heard one of the firecrew saying they had lifted a woman out of the water at the salmon weir bridge. Everybody left. That is all.

m83 · 12-09-2007 12:21am

Thank you walt0r.

12-09-2007 12:36am

challengemaster wrote:

Is that Bob Kelso?

JIZZLORD · 12-09-2007 1:50am

no it's albert reynolds and kelsos lovechild! :0

brinepacer · 12-09-2007 5:42pm

People are always jumping/falling in there, just you never hear about it. The docks is worse, something like three people every two weeks on average.

DRakE · 12-09-2007 10:49pm

I think they should erect a statue of Richard Dean Anderson falling into the Spanish Arch on Shop St.

Discuss.

JohnCleary · 13-09-2007 12:08am

DRakE wrote:

I think they should erect a statue of Richard Dean Anderson falling into the Spanish Arch on Shop St.

Discuss.

With warty Nora pushing him (whoever he is) and KD humping her leg

Caliden · 13-09-2007 12:14am

sensitive_soul · 13-09-2007 2:54am

Ohh brings back memories...one of my classmates jumped in there about 7 years ago, wasn't so lucky though

god rest her

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majiktripp · 13-09-2007 7:26am

sensitive_soul wrote:

Ohh brings back memories...one of my classmates jumped in there about 7 years ago, wasn't so lucky though god rest her .

Well that killed the fun bunny...

nonamemark · 13-09-2007 8:09am

Saw that when I was drinking down the middle arch alright. Was wondering what was happening.

sensitive_soul · 13-09-2007 11:07am

majiktripp wrote:

Well that killed the fun bunny...

Suicide is not a 'funny' issue, its incredibly serious. Dont know if you ever lost someone you knew well through it!:(

majiktripp · 13-09-2007 11:52am

I was refering to the 3 posts previous about the Richard Dean Anderson statue falling into the Spanish Arch....

sensitive_soul · 13-09-2007 12:14pm

majiktripp wrote:

I was refering to the 3 posts previous about the Richard Dean Anderson statue falling into the Spanish Arch....

Apologies...just made me sad when people turned the thread into a joke.

Amazotheamazing · 13-09-2007 2:47pm

Walked past the activity, poor girl.

Had no idea the docks was such a common area for suicides, I've a good few friends living about there and never heard anything about it.

wet-paint · 13-09-2007 3:56pm

I jump off the Quin and O Brien's Bridge on a semi regular basis, and once had some wan come up to me telling me not to do it as it's disrespectful to those who've taken their lives in the same manner.

With the greatest respect, **** that. It's fun, it's safe, I get a kick out of it. If they decided to top themselves in that manner, bad buzz, but why should I curtail my fun?

DRakE · 13-09-2007 6:13pm

Wah wah.

po0k · 13-09-2007 7:34pm

JohnCleary wrote:

With warty Nora pushing him (whoever he is) and KD humping her leg

the raven · 16-09-2007 1:45am

wet-paint wrote:

I jump off the Quin and O Brien's Bridge on a semi regular basis, and once had some wan come up to me telling me not to do it as it's disrespectful to those who've taken their lives in the same manner.

With the greatest respect, **** that. It's fun, it's safe, I get a kick out of it. If they decided to top themselves in that manner, bad buzz, but why should I curtail my fun?

good point.

JohnCleary · 16-09-2007 10:17pm

Jumping off the Quincentinial (sp?) bridge aint safe, I know this because I scuba dive there a bit.

Deepest place is about 9ft deep, averaving around 7ft ... Now most people are 5-6ft in height :eek:

Chances of hitting a trolly etc. are slim, but it's all rock there... 2 broken legs = pain!

Did someone fall into the spanish arch?

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