Video captures terrifying fall as girl pushed from 60-foot bridge in Washington state

PJ_Soul said:

brianlux said:

PJ_Soul said:

brianlux said:

Meltdown99 said:

brianlux said:

Stupid all around.  Why was the girl standing in the other side of the rail in the first place.  The guy who shoved her was definitely wrong and should be charged as an adult, the the girl was also in the wrong. Even a planned jump into water at 60 feet is not safe.  That's about twice the height of a high dive board.  The kid was chancing getting a Darwin Award. 

I agree ... but at one point the girl said no ... indicating to me common sense was setting in.

True, perhaps, but just putting herself in that position indicates a serious lack of common sense.  I've jumped from about 40 feet (about 12.2 meters) into water.  Even that was foolish.  It was scary, and the impact was hard.  Add 50% more distance to that and you asking for trouble.

I don't care if someone decides they want to jump into water from a tall height. That is their choice to make, and a lot of people do it for fun. Cliff jumping is an age old form of entertainment for many, and this is no different. I don't think there is any blame whatsoever to be laying on the girl in this case. She was thinking about trying it, but decided against it because it's scary (I'd chicken out too!). Then an idiot came along and shoved her off against her will and when she wasn't expecting it, which caused her to belly flop when she landed because she wasn't prepared, and that is why she got injured. Other people were jumping and were just fine because they were prepared for it and hit the water in the proper position. This is ALL on him, not her. There's no reason to victim shame in this case IMO. (Thirty, you think it was a girl who pushed? The article I read about it actually said it was a guy...)

I'm arguing that she was partially to blame the way a parent would.  I've never been a parent but I like kids and I have a soft spot for teens- what a tough time of life!  So yeah, I would hit her with some tough love because I dodn't like seeing kids get hurt.  I would chew her ass out and then tell her that's because I care, because I want her to learn some good decision making skills and because I don't want her to get hurt.

I think she's suffered enough, lol. I seriously doubt being chewed out by her parents would be helpful at all, especially since it wasn't her fault. I mean, it wasn't her decision making that lead to her being injured. Someone pushed her off a bridge.