# A fucking idiot videotaped Tony Scott's suicide jump and is showing it. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 21, 2012, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fucking-idiot-videotaped-tony-scotts-suicide-jump-and-is-showing-it/632204 "2012-08-21T20:10:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2012, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fucking-idiot-videotaped-tony-scotts-suicide-jump-and-is-showing-it/632204/1 "2012-08-21T20:10:24Z")
[Story here](http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv-movies/tony-scott-suicide-leap-caught-camera-shopped-bystander-report-article-1.1141043) There is no link to the video. I am so angry right now I cannot type straight. How low can a person sink? ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2012, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fucking-idiot-videotaped-tony-scotts-suicide-jump-and-is-showing-it/632204/2 "2012-08-21T20:14:55Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > [Story here](http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv-movies/tony-scott-suicide-leap-caught-camera-shopped-bystander-report-article-1.1141043) There is no link to the video. > > I am so angry right now I cannot type straight. How low can a person sink? Is it any different from people taping Golden Gate jumpers because he was famous? I mean, if you want to avoid public scrutiny while committing suicide…do it privately. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2012, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fucking-idiot-videotaped-tony-scotts-suicide-jump-and-is-showing-it/632204/3 "2012-08-21T20:15:39Z")
Depends on whether he hits feet-first or bellyflops. ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2012, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fucking-idiot-videotaped-tony-scotts-suicide-jump-and-is-showing-it/632204/4 "2012-08-21T20:16:26Z")
Did he intend to record a jumper? Was he just taping the river when he got the money shot? ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2012, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fucking-idiot-videotaped-tony-scotts-suicide-jump-and-is-showing-it/632204/5 "2012-08-21T20:17:11Z")
He’s not showing it…he’s trying to sell it. I’d be tempted to sell it to a gossip site. ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2012, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fucking-idiot-videotaped-tony-scotts-suicide-jump-and-is-showing-it/632204/6 "2012-08-21T20:18:16Z")
> [@bup](#): > > He’s not showing it…he’s trying to sell it. > > I’d be tempted to sell it to a gossip site. Well, if he is trying to sell it then that’s pretty shitty. I wouldn’t feel right profiting from someone’s death. ---
**Author:** ![Bill\_Door](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@Bill\_Door](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bill_Door)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2012, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fucking-idiot-videotaped-tony-scotts-suicide-jump-and-is-showing-it/632204/7 "2012-08-21T20:19:57Z")
> [@FoieGrasIsEvil](#): > > Well, if he is trying to sell it then that’s pretty shitty. I wouldn’t feel right profiting from someone’s death. It’s not like turning the money down would bring him back to life though. What if it was a shitload of money? ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2012, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fucking-idiot-videotaped-tony-scotts-suicide-jump-and-is-showing-it/632204/8 "2012-08-21T20:22:53Z")
> [@Bill\_Door](#): > > It’s not like turning the money down would bring him back to life though. What if it was a shitload of money? Apparently whomever this is is asking for a truckload of money because I don’t for a second believe that the TMZ’s of the world have some kind of moral quandry about acquiring something like this. ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2012, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fucking-idiot-videotaped-tony-scotts-suicide-jump-and-is-showing-it/632204/9 "2012-08-21T20:23:18Z")
Zapruder got a crapload of money for his film.\* I don’t think this is newsworthy like Kennedy’s assassination, but if I happened to film it, I might at least see if someone wanted to buy it. I don’t know. Maybe if I were in better financial shape I wouldn’t. What _is_ the correct thing to do with it? Some biographer or some historian may want it for some reason years from now. \*[crapload = $150,000 in 1963.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Zapruder) ---
**Author:** ![PlainJain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5daacb/32.png) [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2012, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fucking-idiot-videotaped-tony-scotts-suicide-jump-and-is-showing-it/632204/10 "2012-08-21T20:23:47Z")
I’m not seeing the rae!g. Tony chose a public place to do this awful thing to his family and friends. It’s bad all around but I’m not all that upset with the person who shot the vid. ---
**Author:** ![mlees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@mlees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mlees)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2012, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fucking-idiot-videotaped-tony-scotts-suicide-jump-and-is-showing-it/632204/11 "2012-08-21T20:48:27Z")
Is there a moral duty to try and stop a jumper? Hypothetical: What if instead of trying to “talk” Mr. Scott down safely, he pulls out his cellphone camera instead? ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2012, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fucking-idiot-videotaped-tony-scotts-suicide-jump-and-is-showing-it/632204/12 "2012-08-21T20:58:06Z")
> [@FoieGrasIsEvil](#): > > Is it any different from people taping Golden Gate jumpers because he was famous? I mean, if you want to avoid public scrutiny while committing suicide…do it privately. I agree. There has to be at least a bit of a desire by the jumper to sensationalize his death if he chooses such a, well, sensational method. I feel sorry for the family, but they really only have him to blame. Nothing is private anymore unless you take extra pains to make it so. Whatever you do in public is likely to be filmed. We all should have learned that years ago. ---
**Author:** ![Bozuit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/edb3f5/32.png) [@Bozuit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bozuit)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2012, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fucking-idiot-videotaped-tony-scotts-suicide-jump-and-is-showing-it/632204/13 "2012-08-21T21:11:55Z")
As long as the video opens with the Scott Free Productions ident I’m cool with it. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2012, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fucking-idiot-videotaped-tony-scotts-suicide-jump-and-is-showing-it/632204/14 "2012-08-22T01:07:47Z")
> [@PlainJain](#): > > I’m not seeing the rae!g. Tony chose a public place to do this awful thing to his family and friends. It’s bad all around but I’m not all that upset with the person who shot the vid. This. As an aside, I learned from this article that Tony Scott _didn’t_ have a tumor on his brain; as was originally reported. So the motive for his jump remains a mystery. ---
**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2012, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fucking-idiot-videotaped-tony-scotts-suicide-jump-and-is-showing-it/632204/15 "2012-08-22T02:04:49Z")
There are lots of pictures and videos on the Internet of people who died horrible, gruesome deaths that you can find if you go looking for them. What makes this any different? ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2012, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fucking-idiot-videotaped-tony-scotts-suicide-jump-and-is-showing-it/632204/16 "2012-08-22T02:15:24Z")
Now I gotta go find out who the hell Tony Scott is… ---
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2012, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fucking-idiot-videotaped-tony-scotts-suicide-jump-and-is-showing-it/632204/17 "2012-08-22T03:08:19Z")
Passerby: Don’t jump! Please don’t jump! Jumper: (lips trembling) I didn’t think anybody would care… Passerby: (waving camera and pointing) Wait 'til I get over there. It’s a better angle. ---
**Author:** ![Bozuit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/edb3f5/32.png) [@Bozuit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bozuit)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2012, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fucking-idiot-videotaped-tony-scotts-suicide-jump-and-is-showing-it/632204/18 "2012-08-22T14:25:22Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > Now I gotta go find out who the hell Tony Scott is… Director of films, mostly action. Top Gun, Enemy of the State, True Romance etc. Brother of Ridley Scott (who know who he is right?). ---
**Author:** ![Snarky\_Kong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Snarky\_Kong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snarky_Kong)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2012, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fucking-idiot-videotaped-tony-scotts-suicide-jump-and-is-showing-it/632204/19 "2012-08-22T14:30:30Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > [Story here](http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv-movies/tony-scott-suicide-leap-caught-camera-shopped-bystander-report-article-1.1141043) There is no link to the video. > > I am so angry right now I cannot type straight. How low can a person sink? The Port of Los Angeles is about 35 feet deep. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Arky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2012, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fucking-idiot-videotaped-tony-scotts-suicide-jump-and-is-showing-it/632204/20 "2012-08-22T14:38:58Z")
Notable dude offs himself in a notable manner in broad daylight in a huge city, damn right, somebody’s gonna get a video of it and sell the shit out of it. Save the thenthative butterfly routine. It’s not like he was your uncle or something. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fucking-idiot-videotaped-tony-scotts-suicide-jump-and-is-showing-it/632204.md?page=2)