Woman dives off luxury building with her pooch

Still not as sad as that white wench who plunged to her death off the escalator in NYC to save her hat. That was national trauma akin to 911 right there.

Poor dog. :(

I hope the dog lived.

I don't care about the bitch.

I know why she hung that old cat along with her. She was afraid of dyin' alone...

Amateur.

Off the top of my head, I can think of several suicides from building leaps since the pandemic started. Two were young boys (12 and 13), and one was a mother with her 3-year old.

People just jumping like crazy.

So damn tragic. Jumpers mystify me. Why not pills and booze?

Somebody jumping off a building is sad and tragic. Taking a helpless animal with you is reprehensible and evil.

Bitch. Poor pup.

It was probably an aged Yorkie.

R2 the escalator in the Oculus a few years ago.

Spot.

An actual one; on the sidewalk.

She jumped from the top of a 45 story building. OMG

[quote] r6 Two were young boys (12 and 13), and one was a mother with her 3-year old. People just jumping like crazy.

Is a handful of suicides “jumping like crazy”?

The dog died too?

[quote]R7 So damn tragic. Jumpers mystify me. Why not pills and booze?

Jumping is more foolproof, and does not require special prescriptions, or much planning.

Very selfish way to go. The puppy deserved to be happy. Not dead.

Has anyone checked in with Brendad?

[quote] Very selfish way to go. The puppy deserved to be happy. Not dead.

Mimsy cakes would know no happiness without me!

That asshole should be charged with a felony regardless of her being dead. Charge NoK.

They're both with the Lord.

For killing the dog she should get a 100 million dollar fine. Who cares if she dead. They need her estate to pay the fine.

I realize there's no "good" way to commit suicide, but jumping from the 42nd floor and hurtling all the way down seems so terrifying. It would seem there are quicker ways to do it? Lord help people who feel that's there only option. Ugh.

And why not put the dog to sleep or something ahead of time if you truly didn't want it living without you? What a terrifying thing to do.

R20 what does charge NoK mean?

I did it for you Barron!

Nearly 20% of NYC suicides are jumpers, higher than any other US city.

She pulled a CARTER COOPER.....Maybe she jumped because her mother rejected her sexuality ?...Just a theory...

There's a how-to website for jumpers with many posts about methodology. It surprises me so many would opt for this end.

Imagine just walking along minding your own business and getting crushed by a depressed fat lady and her froufrou dog.

R28 = Yeah....I used to go to a "Catch the Bus" site....It was shut down a couple of months ago after a news site did a story on it....It was sad to see so many people struggling....I was actually worried about after the site shut down because I wondered where those people would go to at least get postings from people trying to talk them out of doing something stupid...

[quote] Who cares if she dead.

I couldn’t agree more, LeShawn.

she dead, ho

she dead, ho

she dead, ho

The desperate ones who take their dogs with them gve me the utmost grief. I understand they're not well, and perhaps not fully culpable, yet it leaves me angry.

When I was a toung teen, a friend of my family couldn't cope with her husband cheating and asking for a divorce, She took the family's sweet young Beagle into the car with her when she decided to check out early in the garage.

The pain my friends suffered losing both their mum, and their dog was horrendous. Sometimes I think they're terribly selfish people who out of spite wish to hurt everyone with their final act. When I visit and drive past their old house, I still think of the two of them.

Animals are a million times more valuable than any stupid human beans, eh.

[quote]R29 Imagine just walking along minding your own business and getting crushed by a depressed fat lady and her froufrou dog.

A body landed on the pavement next to a friend of mine in college. I never asked her to describe it, but I know it was traumatizing.

Maybe one would feel like a hero if someone landed on you and you broke their fall? (Of course, they’d hate you.)

Who cleans that mess?

I would guess the police rope the area off, and contact the Sanitation Department.

[quote]Who cleans that mess?

The rats.

Its a serious question. Is there a special crew? And is the estate billed?

I remember there was a photographer who took photos on 911 of the remains of people who had leaped or fallen---he had just been in the area and grabbed his camera. He also got in trouble with the Bush Admin who wanted to squash the pix...The article was horrifying and I saw a couple of the pix and stopped. Trust me---you DON'T want to know. A tall building is not a way I would kill myself.

There was a woman in Denver years ago that jumped from the upper floors of Brooks Towers many years ago. Legend has it that she didn't jump out far enough and wound up hitting a balcony railing quite a few storeys down, and was basically cut in half by the railing.

I don't know if that is true or not - but it sure is horrifying!

There was a photo in the local paper of Capucine after her jump. She looked absolutely normal, face up as if she were sleeping. No blood, nothing. But she jumped onto grass and from 8 stories, not 46.

The gnarliest jumping suicide I know about was the guy who jumped off the roof of Buffalo city hall and impaled himself on the flag pole. There's a picture online.

R43 That's awesome and very patriotic. Hope it was right up his asshole.

Pics or it didn't happen!

Fucking bitches who take their animals and their kids. What the hell are they thinking, selfish fucking assholes. I want to go back into time and beat the living hell out of them, take their dogs/kids away, and usher them towards their inevitable suicides without their chosen casualties.

R24: next of kin.

I knew someone who jumped off the Royal Gorge bridge. It is 955 feet above the river. I can't imagine.

[quote]r48 I knew someone who jumped off the Royal Gorge bridge.

and then she died.

It reminds me of this story. The most unbelievable part, is that an animal shelter actually agreed to do it. It boggles the mind, and should be illegal. The animal's guardian never deserved the dog to begin with.

Jesus. What is your thought process on the way down? Do you die of a heart attack knowing what awaits you at the bottom? Does a soul fairy swoop in and scoop you up before the big splat? Ugh. This and plane crashes rate on the top of the charts for worst ways to die (modern day). Of course, being pinned by your SUV and essentially cutting you in half is also up there.

Mama hung herself with that old yellow cat because she didn’t want to go alone

Maybe she was a MAGA? Who knows how they think....

R36

Helga

Damm.

Did she actually DIVE off the building? Like head first? Wow, impressive!

R51, here is a story of a dummy who wasn't paying enough attention, and jumped off a bridge without a bungee cord because she thought they were signaling her to jump when they were really signaling her boyfriend.

The article says that she suffered a massive heart attack in mid-air.

You people are so ridiculous.

How could you not mention the famous "The Sky Was So Blue That Day" 9/11 angel-leaps from the infernos?

It was the Olympics of death dives.

R26: Buildings are taller in NYC. The usual rule of them among people who study suicide is that you really need to be 6-8 stories up for jumping to have a strong chance of being lethal. NYC has many more opportunities for this than most cities. You just have to get inside and find the elevator and then stairs to the roof.

Spalding Gray jumped off a bridge in NYC.

NYC probably has more bridges, as well as tall buildings. A swan dive off the GWB is probably lethal, too.

Great quotes:

“I thought it was garbage thrown in the street by some guy or something,” the witness said. “Then I got closer and I realized that was not garbage, and I got the hell out of there.”

How very Umberto D of her.

The dog was a nice touch.

I hope the dog was biting her the whole way down, but I fear it was just like a dog riding with his head out the window enjoying the breeze.

Would a cat survived that?

Where is her husband?

Cooch with a pooch?

[quote]jumping from the 42nd floor and hurtling all the way down seems so terrifying. It would seem there are quicker ways to do it?

Yeah, jumping from the 10th floor.

[quote]A swan dive off the GWB is probably lethal, too.

If a heart attack or drowning doesn't get you, the polluted Hudson River will.

[quote]Where is her husband?

On the phone with the insurance company as we speak.

I'm here all week, try the veal

I heard the dog was biting her on the way down. Bites on her face.

My old neighborhood.

[quote] People just jumping like crazy.

💨 +🚶🏼= 💀

[quote]I'm here all week, try the veal

R70, I knew someone who was here all week and tried the veal. And then she died.

R13 She possibly realized she was 60 years old and living in a rental...the kitchen didn’t even have an apron sink.

Jumping from a bridge seems more considerate. Less mess. But then I guess if the hard landing doesn’t kill you you drown, and who wants to do that?

Famous photo.

She was just an older woman, not more than 60 or 70

But that night as she jumped the angels took them both to heaven

God knew her little puppy would be lonesome with her gone

Now this bitch and her puppy dog won't ever be alone

R73 I'd throw myself off of a building to avoid sitting through that film again.

R60 Actually, Spaulding went for a swim and never came back, like Norman Mane in A Star is Born.

I remember a newspaper article years ago about a man committing suicide after having accidentally rolled over in his sleep and crushed his parrot that was sleeping alongside him. I always thought birds slept upright and one one leg, but who knows.

In the case of the suicidal woman, it might have been that the little dog was terminally ill and the poor woman couldn't bear the guilt of euthanizing her pet and then living on without her.

^ on one leg

[quote] photos on 911 of the remains of people who had leaped or fallen

Never saw or wish to see those but the French documentary filming in the WTC lobby did catch the audio of some of them hitting the pavement. To me it sounded like the crash of two rail cars pushed hard together. Instant obliteration has to be better then a prolonged suffering death..

I remember when I was a kid in the late ‘70s, probably about 10 - 12, growing up in the northern suburbs of Detroit, and early one morning we heard gunshots - which was NO WAY as common as it would be now. The woman who lived about 7 or 8 houses away shot her 2 children dead - and they were slightly older than me with everything to live for - and then tried to take her own life but survived. It was said that she was going through a divorce and I think was going to lose custody of her kids. Batshit crazy and not the kind of thing people moved to the suburbs for.

Come on and dive, come on and dive, it’s a great big, it’s a great big world!!!! 😩

R77 I was thinking about that exact same photograph. The lady looks as if she's just sleeping in a purpose made dent in the roof.

I found the film The Bridge harrowing. The simple, tiny, splashes in the water were the most shocking.

If Capucine landed on grass it might have meant she knew she wouldn't be landing on someone else.

I can see her building from my living room. Glad I wasn’t looking out the window when she jumped.

The New York Post has pics of the dog and woman.

When I lived in a city in the UK we had a tall building that people jumped out of. I used to sell cable TV in the building so visited a number of the apartments.

One guy's flat on the 15th floor had patio doors, so you could literally just pull them aside and there was no safety barrier or anything, it was a clear drop straight down.

One day he jumped or fell through them. He went crashing through the roof of the hotel below into their ballroom where there was a wedding reception taking place. He came straight through the roof and landed on the ballroom floor. Must of been horrible for the bride to have that happen at your wedding reception.

[quote]R90 He came straight through the roof and landed on the ballroom floor. Must of been horrible for the bride to have that happen at your wedding reception.

Everyone else loved it, of course.

I think this is sad, despite it being unfair to the dog. A relative jumped this past year to end his life. There's surveillance but I'd never watch it. From the sounds of it, it was traumatic to watch. Not just the jumping part, but the time leading up to it (watching them pace, approach, chainsmoke, repeat.) There's something about suicide that makes a loved ones death hurt all the more.

I don't think it's fair to totally judge someone in that state of mind. I highly doubt they're thinking of anyone else in the moment, they just want their pain to stop.

Still hoping it's because the dog was old or sick as well. It looks older in that photo of the two.

*sigh*

The dog was 16 years old.

Actress Elizabeth Hartman (1965's A Patch of Blue) also jumped and died. From where exactly? What building? Tell me, DL!

R89 I feel like we all know her, lots of someones like her. Moving here is never easy, much less so when you are near 60, live in a small overpriced rental, and your dog is16.5 years old. She had the unfortunate luck to move here in 2019 so I’m sure her COVID experience was not good at all. Meanwhile, the whole thing with reporting on suicides and also publishing their identities is trash masquerading as news.

r96 Hartman jumped out of the window of her apartment in Pittsburgh after talking to her psychiatrist on the phone. It was only 5 floors up, so she's lucky she was killed and wasn't just hideously maimed. She was 43.

R90 That was a thing once? “ One guy's flat on the 15th floor had patio doors, so you could literally just pull them aside and there was no safety barrier or anything, it was a clear drop straight down.”

"Maybe one would feel like a hero if someone landed on you and you broke their fall?"

Um...maybe one would feel dead when their neck broke instead.

Elizabeth Hartman was really good in the Night Gallery episode, The Dark Boy.

R99 Yup

R98 Hartman jumped out of the window of her apartment in Pittsburgh after talking to her psychiatrist on the phone. It was only 5 floors up, so she's lucky she was killed and wasn't just hideously maimed. She was 43.

Hartman, along with other suicidal stars, is a reminder that it’s mistaken to think that if only WE were famous, if only WE costarred with a legend like Clint Eastwood, if WE had Oscar nominations and were directed by the likes of Sidney Lumet… then everything would be okay.

Of course those things can be fabulous, but they aren’t automatic solutions.

R.I.P. Linda and Jake.

Somebody told her the dog (16,5 years old) had to be put down and she decided to go with him. I find that honorable. I don’t think I the pooch suffered much.

She jumped because the air conditioning in the CVS on the ground floor is STILL broken!

Oh, my. There is no such thing as a luxury building in Hell's Kitchen.

R86, yes The Bridge documentary is certainly a singular experience. The one that haunts me is at the end when the guy finally dives… I didn’t watch the clip you linked, not knowing what it was.

R108 How’s your Classic 8 and your obgyn husband?

The celeb bio writer, who jumped from the same apartment as Carter Cooper a few years ago, left one leg on the terrace of the apartment a few floors below.

That poor dog. How could you do that to your best friend?! I've dealt with bouts of suicidal ideation since I was very young, and never once did I consider taking a pet out with me. The mere thought of causing my cat any harm makes me physically ill. I'm truly sorry she was so despondent, but forcing that little dog to go down with her was horrible.

R112 No doubt. That bitch's dog was worth a billion of you, sad sack.

R111 The woman who jumped in 2017 was Jean Stein…not quite a “celeb bio writer,” although I can see how the tabloids would shorthand her career to that. She wrote quite arguably the best biography of all time, “Edie: American Girl,” ostensibly about Edie Sedgwick but really about the fucked up WASP class in America. She was also Hollywood royalty: her father was Jules Stein, the founder of MCA, as in “MCA / Universal.” Jean married William vanden Heuvel, a key player in the RFK inner circle. One of her daughters is Katrina vanden Heuvel who was on air talent at MSNBC before founding The Nation. Jean Stein later wrote a collection of truly disturbing mini-bios of various celebrities/socialites in “West of Eden,” which included a scathing profile of actress Jennifer Jones.

R114 Interestingly Jennifer Jones and Selznicks daughter commited suicide by jumping off a building too. Very little info is available about her online though. This happened in about 1970.

R114 I had no idea that Katrina van den Huevel was her daughter!

R115 You might enjoy West of Eden. There is an entire segment on Jennifer Jones which goes into great detail on her daughter with Selznick. Jones became very rich and self-indulgent when she married Norton Simon.

R117 thanks for the recommendation. It sounds quite fascinating albeit tragic.

Did anyone know her? She was a bit actress.

Does anyone know her? She was a bit actress.

The ground knew her. Splat!