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That summoninbithcin bridge is just down the street from Mayflower dorm and right next to a Frat house. You can instruct the students all you want about not getting on the bridge or say you are going to ticket them. It's not going to make a lick of a difference when they are walking home from downtown drunk on a Thursday night or when they can see it from a party at the Frat house.

They are still going to climb that sucker and this has nothing but bad things written all over it. I don't have a good feeling here.
 
MelroseHawkins said:
That summoninbithcin bridge is just down the street from Mayflower dorm and right next to a Frat house. You can instruct the students all you want about not getting on the bridge or say you are going to ticket them. It's not going to make a lick of a difference when they are walking home from downtown drunk on a Thursday night or when they can see it from a party at the Frat house.

They are still going to climb that sucker and this has nothing but bad things written all over it. I don't have a good feeling here.
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Bottom line, you can't prevent stupid. And being stupid is no one else's fault.
 
MelroseHawkins said:
That summoninbithcin bridge is just down the street from Mayflower dorm and right next to a Frat house. You can instruct the students all you want about not getting on the bridge or say you are going to ticket them. It's not going to make a lick of a difference when they are walking home from downtown drunk on a Thursday night or when they can see it from a party at the Frat house.

They are still going to climb that sucker and this has nothing but bad things written all over it. I don't have a good feeling here.
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Natural selection.

Kids dumb enough to quadriplegia themselves won’t reproduce and make more dumb offspring.
 
won't be long before someone falls off into the river and drowns (might happen this Saturday with all the drunks that will be out and about)
 
I used to jump off the old Hancher bridge. Some nights with a 12 pack of Red, White and Blue.

Good times.

Is it higher than before? I didnt know they built a new one.
 
EstronHawkKing said:
won't be long before someone falls off into the river and drowns (might happen this Saturday with all the drunks that will be out and about)
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Some students try to jump between the two bridges on Burlington St just above the dam. I know back in the 90's one kid went over the dam and did not make it.
 
Motigerhawk said:
I used to jump off the old Hancher bridge. Some nights with a 12 pack of Red, White and Blue.

Good times.

Is it higher than before? I didnt know they built a new one.
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The new Park Ave bridge discussed here and the Hancher footbridge are two different structures. I jumped of the footbridge a few times myself. The trick was knowing where to jump. There was a cut in the bank near the boathouse that was deep enough to jump into, but close enough to shore for an easy swim. That's where I jumped.

I don't condone it. Chalk it up to a nineteen year old being stupid. I know a guy who jumped off that bridge as a possible suicide attempt. His friend jumped in to save him and the friend drowned. And who knows what the sediment situation is after the 2008 flood? It is probably a completely different river now.

There was also a drowning incdent in the late 1980's where a student tried to walk across the frozen river in the winter near Mayflower dorm and fell through. Totally senseless tragedy.

I have a feeling the proper authorities will be watching that bridge closely this weekend and violaters will be spending the night in the slammer. It is against the law to jump off any Iowa City Bridge, and doing it upriver from the dam is plain stupid. I'm guilty as charged.
 
Northside Hawk said:
The new Park Ave bridge discussed here and the Hancher footbridge are two different structures. I jumped of the footbridge a few times myself. The trick was knowing where to jump. There was a cut in the bank near the boathouse that was deep enough to jump into, but close enough to shore for an easy swim. That's where I jumped.

I don't condone it. Chalk it up to a nineteen year old being stupid. I know a guy who jumped off that bridge as a possible suicide attempt. His friend jumped in to save him and the friend drowned. And who knows what the sediment situation is after the 2008 flood? It is probably a completely different river now.

There was also a drowning incdent in the late 1980's where a student tried to walk across the frozen river in the winter near Mayflower dorm and fell through. Totally senseless tragedy.

I have a feeling the proper authorities will be watching that bridge closely this weekend and violaters will be spending the night in the slammer. It is against the law to jump off any Iowa City Bridge, and doing it upriver from the dam is plain stupid. I'm guilty as charged.
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I remember when Rory Lee Brown drowned that year, Spring semester 1985. They found him down-river a couple months later. Had him in a class or two in the English department.

That said, I routinely jumped off Hancher Bridge in the early 1980s. God looks out for saints and fools. And I am obviously not a saint.

EDIT: for those who remember, Rory Lee Brown actually went "missing" at end of Fall semester in 1984. His body was found in Spring semester 1985. In looking up the story/ies on Google, I see his date of death listed as "1984".
 
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hawkeyebob62 said:
I remember when Rory Lee Brown drowned that year, Spring semester 1985. They found him down-river a couple months later. Had him in a class or two in the English department.

That said, I routinely jumped off Hancher Bridge in the early 1980s. God looks out for saints and fools. And I am obviously not a saint.
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I did too, had a friend climb up the light post and jump off. You could tube down the Iowa River from IRP to Hancher, it started to become a big deal and then the DNR cracked down and started fining kids, "no boat license" for the tubes.
 
MelroseHawkins said:
That summoninbithcin bridge is just down the street from Mayflower dorm and right next to a Frat house. You can instruct the students all you want about not getting on the bridge or say you are going to ticket them. It's not going to make a lick of a difference when they are walking home from downtown drunk on a Thursday night or when they can see it from a party at the Frat house.

They are still going to climb that sucker and this has nothing but bad things written all over it. I don't have a good feeling here.
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Can confirm. I was in Mayflower, worked at a bar, and I definitely would have climbed that thing on my way home.
 
Just line the bridge in these and you'll prevent most of that. Kind of like some cities have done to keep homeless from sleeping in front of shop windows.

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Hawk90 said:
I did too, had a friend climb up the light post and jump off. You could tube down the Iowa River from IRP to Hancher, it started to become a big deal and then the DNR cracked down and started fining kids, "no boat license" for the tubes.
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We would always tube from just after the bridge on Riverside Drive. Starting at IRP was popular, as well. We always got out at the fraternities across from Hancher, before the Hancher Bridge. Knew some guys that got caught up in that dam by IRP. They, along with their friends, were lucky to survive. I think the problem, in the minds of ICs finest and the "city fathers" was the effect alcohol had on the judgment of most tubers!
 
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