Guy Jumps off Parkade on 6th

[macker]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLdmFMFqETw

[TSXCman]

I walked past to go home a street over (5th ave and 2nd st sw). Couldn't tell anything was going on.

[Fire]

Anyone know what happen at the c-train lines near Northland Mall Wednesday night (10pm)? The trains were stopped and a bunch of poilice, ems and fire trucks were at the scene. Had a bad feeling it could be a suicide by train.

[Russic]

Originally Posted by Fire

Anyone know what happen at the c-train lines near Northland Mall Wednesday night (10pm)? The trains were stopped and a bunch of poilice, ems and fire trucks were at the scene. Had a bad feeling it could be a suicide by train.

If you didn't hear anything else about it, it's certainly possible. I always feel terrible for the drivers in those cases. You don't exactly go to work for Calgary Transit thinking you could walk away with a case of PTSD.

[DuffMan]

I remember years ago, before Eau Claire was even built I think a building down on 3rd or so, and someone broke through a window and jumped.
I remember talking to someone who knew someone who knew someone, that heard loud banging from the floor above for 15 minutes and then the body fall past. I think the guy was using a chair or something to break the window.
That part might be urban legend but the guy jumping happened.,

I tried finding something online about this and came up empty so far, but I did come across this little tidbit

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[Cuz]

Originally Posted by Russic

If you didn't hear anything else about it, it's certainly possible. I always feel terrible for the drivers in those cases. You don't exactly go to work for Calgary Transit thinking you could walk away with a case of PTSD.

You expect it in the back of your mind to be honest. During LRT training, our trainers allude to the fact that suicide by train is a lot more common than you think. The biggest thing than they tell us is if you hit someone, don't get out of your cab.

[CliffFletcher]

My wife sometimes deals with people who can't work because of PTSD. A surprisingly high proportion of them are train engineers (transit and CP/CNR).

[homestand]

Originally Posted by DuffMan

I remember years ago, before Eau Claire was even built I think a building down on 3rd or so, and someone broke through a window and jumped.
I remember talking to someone who knew someone who knew someone, that heard loud banging from the floor above for 15 minutes and then the body fall past. I think the guy was using a chair or something to break the window.
That part might be urban legend but the guy jumping happened.,...

Not quite 30 years ago, something like this happened from Bow Valley Square on the 5th Avenue side on a Sunday.

[CliffFletcher]

Originally Posted by DuffMan

I remember years ago, before Eau Claire was even built I think a building down on 3rd or so, and someone broke through a window and jumped.
I remember talking to someone who knew someone who knew someone, that heard loud banging from the floor above for 15 minutes and then the body fall past. I think the guy was using a chair or something to break the window.

The Canterra building. I was working across the street at Shell at the time. It's not an urban myth.

[Fighting Banana Slug]

Originally Posted by DuffMan

I remember years ago, before Eau Claire was even built I think a building down on 3rd or so, and someone broke through a window and jumped.
I remember talking to someone who knew someone who knew someone, that heard loud banging from the floor above for 15 minutes and then the body fall past. I think the guy was using a chair or something to break the window.
That part might be urban legend but the guy jumping happened.,

I tried finding something online about this and came up empty so far, but I did come across this little tidbit

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Perhaps part of the urban legend, but I do recall a similar story 20 years or so ago. Tried to get on the roof of what was then Canterra Tower and then crashed through a window.

[Peanut]

Sadly I don't think it's that uncommon. You just don't hear about it unless you happen to see it or happen upon the scene. Somebody jumped off a balcony across from my condo building in the beltline a few years ago. And landed on someone else's bigger balcony on the second floor. Unless you were in my building facing north, or their building facing south, and happened to look outside and see fire and EMS dealing with the scene for an hour or two on that morning, you would never have known it happened.

I felt badly for the person who ended their life, but I also felt REALLY bad for the person whose balcony they landed on. That must have been a very unpleasant surprise to find.

[Buzzard]

Originally Posted by CliffFletcher

My wife sometimes deals with people who can't work because of PTSD. A surprisingly high proportion of them are train engineers (transit and CP/CNR).

Wife's father worked for CN. He said it happened VERY frequently.

Myself and a lot of my family have been around the trucking industry for many years. There's stories of it happening there as well. About 15 years or so ago a guy decided to take himself and his family out in a head on with one of my uncle's super b tankers full of fuel.

Suicide often can be explained, or at least rationalized fairly easily. What I'll never get though is people taking others with them, or exposing their act to anyone around with no apparent regard.

[malcolmk14]

I remember the Canterra Tower thing, my dad worked in the building at the time for Macleod Dixon.

[Drummer]

Originally Posted by peanut

sadly i don't think it's that uncommon. You just don't hear about it unless you happen to see it or happen upon the scene. Somebody jumped off a balcony across from my condo building in the beltline a few years ago. And landed on someone else's bigger balcony on the second floor. Unless you were in my building facing north, or their building facing south, and happened to look outside and see fire and ems dealing with the scene for an hour or two on that morning, you would never have known it happened.

I felt badly for the person who ended their life, but i also felt really bad for the person whose balcony they landed on. That must have been a very unpleasant surprise to find.

Nova?

[Drummer]

I heard that the Gulf Canada Square parkade was popular back around the mid eighties, anyone else hear that as well?

[jayswin]

Originally Posted by Buzzard

Wife's father worked for CN. He said it happened VERY frequently.

Myself and a lot of my family have been around the trucking industry for many years. There's stories of it happening there as well. About 15 years or so ago a guy decided to take himself and his family out in a head on with one of my uncle's super b tankers full of fuel.

Suicide often can be explained, or at least rationalized fairly easily. What I'll never get though is people taking others with them, or exposing their act to anyone around with no apparent regard.

When you get to the point of ending your life there really isn't any rational thoughts taking place. From experience, you panic and just think of anything that will do the trick, and you gravitate to "sure things" as opposed to painful, might not work ideas.

That's why jumping from tall structures and into trains is so common, as the person knows there's no going back and no possible painful (at least there shouldn't be) surviving outcome.

I've never seen the stats, but I wouldn't be surprised if these methods are way more common in Canada than the States since in the States you can go to a street corner or Walmart and grab a gun, where as here a person in an irrational state wouldn't have much success trying to source a gun on short notice. (I know the Shooting Edge had two suicides in the course of a month a few years ago of guys coming in pretending to range shoot and then shooting themselves)

[Travis Munroe]

Originally Posted by Drummer

Nova?

The story wouldnt line up for Nova as those units face each other east and west + their are no second floor units.

[FlamesAddiction]

Does anyone remember that guy from Toronto I think in the 1990s who worked in a high rise... he wanted to show off to some students or something so he jumped into the window to show them how strong the glass was? The glass popped out and he plunged to his death. I think he was awarded a Darwin Award for it. I imagine those students were messed up after witnessing that.

Edit: Here is that guy from Toronto (I originally wrote Vancouver) I was thinking about:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garry_Hoy


There is a good, but really sad documentary out there called The Bridge about jumpers at the Golden Gate Bridge. It has some really troubling footage actually.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0799954/?ref_=fn_al_tt_3

[OldDutch]

Originally Posted by malcolmk14

I remember the Canterra Tower thing, my dad worked in the building at the time for Macleod Dixon.

So here is a super creepy side story (I will paraphrase as my wife told me years ago and doesn't like to talk about it). My wife works at Devon (formerly Canterra). A few years back she was in he file room on a Sunday by herself. Her head was down in the files as she walked out of he room and a "woman" with long blond hair cut her off and she caught a glimpse in her peripheral. She said "sorry" and looked back down, then she realized she was the only person who was at work that morning.

So she looked everywhere for this strange woman. Couldn't find her. So later that day she asked a coworker if a new hire was working in the morning and described the woman. The coworker turned white and explained the suicide back in the early 90's. Same looking woman. My wife went and looked it up and sure enough there was an article on it. She had to come home and decompress from shaking so bad.

I'm still on the fence but my wife is positive that floor is haunted with that ladies ghost.

[pylon]

Originally Posted by Buzzard

Wife's father worked for CN. He said it happened VERY frequently.

Myself and a lot of my family have been around the trucking industry for many years. There's stories of it happening there as well. About 15 years or so ago a guy decided to take himself and his family out in a head on with one of my uncle's super b tankers full of fuel.

Suicide often can be explained, or at least rationalized fairly easily. What I'll never get though is people taking others with them, or exposing their act to anyone around with no apparent regard.

There is no known stats to quantify the amount of head on collisions that are in fact suicide. There are some road traffic experts that say it is at minimum 2%, and I have heard some believe it is as high as 20%. There is no way to know unless a note is left. If you think about it, if you ever wanted to leave the earth, and want to spare your family the shame, and still make sure your family gets that big life insurance payout, steering your Harley into that 18 wheeler is a heck of way to do it.