Comments on: Suicide Watch Shuts Down Valencia

By: baranskaya

baranskaya — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 01:18:19 +0000

No wonder he wants to go. People are assholes. Whatever happened to compassion? Between this and the gang rape in Richmond, I’m really taking a long hard look at our society.

By: james

james — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:38:29 +0000

these are hideous situations. At my workplace a number of years ago we had a jumper who went through with it. I will never forget her scream and the sound of impact.

By: Reyna

Reyna — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:34:26 +0000

I can’t believe people put commerce over the life of a person. Anyone who has ever stood on that edge her/himself would not complain about shops closing. I wonder how many of the people who made rude comments would fare if they couldn’t afford their Zolof prescriptions or their alcohol or their weed.

By: jessechurch

jessechurch — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 21:06:17 +0000

haha nice one Marco…Bingo are you one of those coffee drinking misanthropes that I have been reading about in Newsweek?

By: jessechurch

jessechurch — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 21:03:54 +0000

stupid yuppies?
are you kidding me…that’s your response…wtf?

By: sf_Jef

sf_Jef — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:48:55 +0000

blagguy, nobody THINKS you’re a jerk. You just are one.

By: Nessapop

Nessapop — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:42:02 +0000

SOOOOO if he had sat up there for seven hours and then jumped off and died, then would you consider it a valid use of “tax dollars”?

By: plumpy

plumpy — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:13:25 +0000

“if he’s seriously considering suicide it would seem like he would have chosen a less public way.”

Clearly you’re forgetting the guy who committed suicide off the roof of the H&M on Powell St. That was in May 2008.

By: Cranky Old Mission Guy

Cranky Old Mission Guy — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:27:51 +0000

Well, as Kat says, “Quit being assholes.” Unfortunately, it’s what we do best.

You might like to try the other thread (^) about this, though.

By: ducky

ducky — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:22:19 +0000

wow. the comments here are more disturbing than the ones on SFgate. many of the posters here simply turned it into another opportunity to accuse one another of being hipsters, or to at least drop the word ‘hipster’, and to point out how ‘uncreative’ the other posts were.

after reading these posts, i don’t blame the roof guy for considering leaving the human race…

less silliness and more empathy/substance/thoughtfulness, please?

By: Jon z

Jon z — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:15:18 +0000

my opinion doesn’t matter (that’s why i’m just posting on a blog), but here it is:

i don’t mind that he shut down the street, it’s interesting to experience chaos and ultimately it’s harmless (big whoop your commute got messed up, whatever fuck off), but if he’s seriously considering suicide it would seem like he would have chosen a less public way.. the dude’s obviously looking for attention and maybe some help so i hope he gets what he’s looking for.

By: Isore

Isore — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:06:29 +0000

…but Jake still walks the violent lonely streets unmedicated.

By: SFDoggy

SFDoggy — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:42:42 +0000

Hmmm, maybe all these people are uncreative losers. Or maybe you are just a social misfit who sits alone in his small rent controlled apartment making himself important by insulting people. Based on the comments so far, I would guess the latter. Just saying.

By: melissa merin

melissa merin — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:01:55 +0000

I’m stoked he got down.

By: Some Guy

Some Guy — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:00:56 +0000

I was in Casanova’s during a couple hours of it. Cops made everyone stay inside, unless they wanted to leave the block immediately.

In the beginning I thought he was down and out. But after the cops closed down the block, I noticed he leaned off the edge, towards the gawkers on 16th. That indicated to me that he wanted attention, considering the cops cleared everyone from the block.

By the time I decided to leave, he was sitting on the edge, swinging his feet. That also indicated to me he was not likely to be “down and out.”

My speculation is either mental disability or drugs, i.e., some altered state, one way or the other. But that’s just my speculation.