# A fucking idiot videotaped Tony Scott's suicide jump and is showing it.

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**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")\
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**Author:** ![DragonAsh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/db5fbb/32.png) [@DragonAsh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DragonAsh)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2012, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fucking-idiot-videotaped-tony-scotts-suicide-jump-and-is-showing-it/632204/61 "2012-08-24T14:51:52Z")

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> [@Snarky\_Kong](#):
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> The Port of Los Angeles is about 35 feet deep.

FTW.

Snarky\_Kong wins the Internet. And he owes me a new keyboard.

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**Author:** ![kayT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayt/32/3633_2.png) [@kayT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayT)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2012, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fucking-idiot-videotaped-tony-scotts-suicide-jump-and-is-showing-it/632204/62 "2012-08-26T01:56:40Z")

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> [@Snarky\_Kong](#):
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> The Port of Los Angeles is about 35 feet deep.

> [@DragonAsh](#):
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> FTW.
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> Snarky\_Kong wins the Internet. And he owes me a new keyboard.

Not only that, he got the depth about right.

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**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 26, 2012, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fucking-idiot-videotaped-tony-scotts-suicide-jump-and-is-showing-it/632204/63 "2012-08-26T02:08:18Z")

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> [@kayT](#):
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> Not only that, he got the depth about right.

Well, we are trying to fight ignorance after all.

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**Author:** ![Simple\_Linctus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Simple\_Linctus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simple_Linctus)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2012, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fucking-idiot-videotaped-tony-scotts-suicide-jump-and-is-showing-it/632204/64 "2012-08-26T02:15:19Z")

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> [@Rand\_Rover](#):
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> Generally yes. There are circumstances under which I wouldn’t (eg, the jumper has a weapon and I’m with my kids), but barring those circumstances I would try.

Presumably because you have given yourself a moral duty, even if you don’t call it that?

I mean sure morality and ethics don’t exist in the strictest sense, but it seems a sophist argument you’re trying to pull here.

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