As we know, on Friday, February 27th in 2004, a lonely man desperately seeking attention crawled out through the plexi-glass of the space needle and sat out on the edge, threatening to jump. We all know that if you want to kill yourself, the best place to do it is in a populated location in a family center on the top of a city landmark, right? WRONG. That's what you do when nobody cares about you and you want to be on the news. Maybe then people will notice you. If you desperately want people to notice you, did you ever think of trying singles clubs? Or perhaps a gay bar you asswipe. Or if you want someone to tell you that everything's okay, you go to a shrink, and not waste the time of police negotiators.
Why wasn't he going to jump? Because he was up there for 2 hours before I got up there, and he was there for another 2 hours after that. If you are so dead set on jumping, then you do it, and not sit around for 4 hours and contemplate it, then get hooked up to a police harness and go back inside. I was just outside the needle with a video camera, on 120X zoom filming the guy, talking to the camera saying "jump you asshole, jump!" After I turned off my camera, a woman standing next to me racked the nerve to confront me, and asked in a scolding voice, "Do you think that's funny?!?! I replied in her same tone, "No I don't think it's funny, because I MEAN IT. If he's been up there for 2 hours already, he's not going to jump, and just wants attention. Boy, I wish she had not thought of being polite by waiting for me to turn off the camera, because I would have loved to have filmed that.
Why am I upset by the jumper? Because I had taken my girlfriend to the Seattle Center to go up to the Space Needle. It was her last day in Seattle, and she wanted to do something special. She had never been, and now was her opportunity, yet foiled by a man who had never thought his circumstance could be remedied by a gay bar. If nobody cares about you, then don't jump off the space needle, keep a shotgun in the closet. Or, don't. Especially if you just want attention.