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Science: Health: Suicide
Jumper trampolines   (+3, -1)  [vote for, against]
..but with cameras.

Below some of the major jumping points (tall bank buildings; Brooklyn Bridge, Beachy Head etc), install camouflaged trampolines of a resilience appropriate to the height of the fall.

Using a light-beam, trigger an automatic camera to take snapshots of the jumper on the way down and then on the way back up. Said snapshots are printed and dispensed, free of charge.

I humbly submit that the rapid succession of emotions which such an arrangement would produce is likely to deter a significant proportion of suicides from trying again.
-- MaxwellBuchanan, Mar 07 2010

Yes i like [+]. Bit like a roller coaster.

Incidentally, sorry i didn't spot the depression category before. I probably thought it was so unlikely to be there that i'd never find it.
-- nineteenthly, Mar 07 2010


Well, if it's beneath the Brooklyn Bridge, paint it watery. If it's beneath a bank building, paint it sidewalky.

I think what we're talking here is an advanced trampoline d'oieul.
-- MaxwellBuchanan, Mar 07 2010


<GRONE>
-- 8th of 7, Mar 07 2010


You'll need some way of identifying Extreme Sports Enthusiasts - you know, the kind of people who think bungee-jumping is fun. With these people, the trampoline will be whisked away at the last possible moment, thus improving the aggregate quality of humanity's gene pool.
-- hippo, Mar 07 2010


I was hoping for a trampoline that somehow simulated the premise of the movie "Jumper" sigh..
-- daseva, Mar 07 2010


There was a movie about pullovers??
-- MaxwellBuchanan, Mar 07 2010


hmm...
-- FlyingToaster, Mar 07 2010


[+] purely for the "trampoline d'oieul" line.
-- gisho, Mar 09 2010



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