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No offense, but probably not. The mind is a funny thing, and it has a way of filling in the blanks after the fact. You simply can’t trust the accuracy of your memory of sudden, disorienting events like auto accidents no matter how clear the memory seems afterward.
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I saw that one coming for at least 3 seconds, maybe that had something to do with it.
[QUOTE=Two and a Half Inches of Fun]
Holy shit. If want something even worse google “WTC jumper” go to images then look at the one from cannabisculture. Right now it is in the second row on the far right.
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Good lord.
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Read the esquire article.
Wow. That was a tough read. I want to see the documentary now, but I’m wondering if the subject matter brought any of you down.
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It’s here…
I worked in a hospital and I would see people coming in from car crashes or bar fights and I was in the ER and I would get information from them. It’s amazing that they could completely remember the fight or their information and then four or five hours later they’d leave and have no recollectin they talked to me.
The doctors said it was a form of retrograde amnesia and the cops told me that is why they always want to talk to people straight off, because if they wait people will not remember those facts anymore.
I don’t know if that’s right, I’m not a medic, I only did the gathering of info for the ER, but it happened a lot, especially with the trauma and gunshots.
The first thing that comes to mind is the people who jumped probably weren’t collected right off. At least the ones that jumped willingly, so when the towers fell they’d be at the bottom of the heap and the fire would have longer to burn them. How many weeks did it take before all the fires at ground zero were out.
I also wondered what the effect of the updraft of the fires would have on the jumpers. I recall people jumping off tall building with parachutes before.
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The first thing that comes to mind is the people who jumped probably weren’t collected right off. At least the ones that jumped willingly, so when the towers fell they’d be at the bottom of the heap and the fire would have longer to burn them. How many weeks did it take before all the fires at ground zero were out.
I also wondered what the effect of the updraft of the fires would have on the jumpers. I recall people jumping off tall building with parachutes before.
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I doubt there was much left to burn once those poor people hit the ground (or the glass ceiling of the lobby- the worst part of the Gaudet brothers’ film was the sound of those people hitting the glass).
As for the updraft, I don’t think it would have any effect at all. They were coming down hard at terminal velocity.
