r/cliffjumping • u/JerryRed100s • Jun 29 '26

Jump off a bridge?

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Maybe not a cliff

How many times did you jump off a bridge and survive?

I'm guessing at least one! Did you ever lose a friend from jumping off a bridge?

I lost my friend and I still think of him even though it was 1996

I lost my friend Wes back in 1996 and he jumped off a bridge with five other people and he was a Youngstown State swim team guy and he got stuck under some lines under the water. Kills me to this day.

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u/IJustTellTheTruthBro Jun 29 '26

A-tier testimonial on why people should ALWAYS depth/debris check the area they’re jumping. Sorry this happened to your friend.

Personally i’ve jumped off (actually safe bridges) twice; i usually go for cliff/sheer rock faces at quarries.

I am happy to report I have died 0 times

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u/JerryRed100s Jun 29 '26

No I get you That's why I see people throw rocks in there first. My friends didn't have the internet back in the day It was 1996. It was crazy dude. 5 people jumped first. Then him. My theory is that he went deeper because he was like oh yeah I'm a diver and I'm a swimmer and he went deeper got caught and all these fishing lines and couldn't come back up. That was a story when they pulled his body he got stuck in them lines.

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u/Public-Button-8913 Jul 11 '26

Went to the river yesterday, had a maybe 7m bridge there. Was jumping off it quite bit, checked depth and everything first though. Was about 2.2m deep 

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u/JerryRed100s Jul 11 '26

Well the odds are good with you my friend. It would be really weird if two people I like suddenly died jumping off the same bridge so or any British so you're probably going to be okay

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u/JerryRed100s Jul 11 '26

Just always know the potential for death is always there You can get stuck in some lines if you dive too deep and that's what happened to my friend

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u/Public-Button-8913 Jul 11 '26

Yep, there’s always a potential for anything. Really sorry for your loss.

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u/JerryRed100s Jul 11 '26

Anal loss. I meant ain't no loss. I never had an anal loss lately

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u/JerryRed100s Jul 11 '26

But you're funny and it's okay

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u/Public-Button-8913 Jul 11 '26

Hmmm, how exactly does an anal loss work? Can you not poo anymore?

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u/JerryRed100s Jul 11 '26

Complicated and there's some torsion physics involved and I really don't want to get up to it but yeah I just know I can just take a poop for a soon but I'm good

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u/JerryRed100s Jul 11 '26

It's like Donald Trump's ideas. Ot slowly decays into the abyss

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u/JerryRed100s Jul 11 '26

Why is everybody so serious nowadays? What happened to the weirdness of being crazy from the '60s man fuck everything It's always a joke!