Stresses of Life and The Art of Jumping
gotta love negroes!!! just GOTTA LOVE EM!!!!!!!!!! so, i'm driving home and am about to merge onto the parkway. as i did, i noticed that no one was coming from the southern direction. hmmmmmmmm...it's rush hour....anyhoos, i peek over the median and see nothing but bumper to bumper cars, not moving an inch and people outside of their cars looking into the distance. well, i figured that must have been one doozy of a car accident. maybe something blew up. maybe pieces flew over the median onto the south side. maybe there are bodies. maybe there's a hostage situation. maybe a gorilla escaped from the zoo, kidnapped someone's kid and is sitting in the middle of rush hour traffic playing paddy-cake.
as wendy williams and i cackled all the way home, i took note of how far back the cars were and not ONE was moving. dang! would hate to be on that side....maybe the news will be reporting the deal later. i get home, surf some channels and there's nothing. dang-what's the deal!?!? it had to be juicy....CRAP!!
well, early in the morn..........TA-DA!!!!!!!!!!!!!! the unveiling of what the friggin hold-up was on the parkway...i present
"NIGGAS IS A BEAUTIFUL THANG!!!!!!" - Honeycutt, from the movie Bamboozled
A 37-year-old man distraught over an old criminal conviction and a recent breakup with his fiancée threatened to jump from a Garden State Parkway overpass in Irvington yesterday, spawning miles-long backups during rush hour as police shut down the highway in both directions.
Deon White, an Irvington resident, spent more than two hours clinging to a chain-link fence atop the Union Avenue overpass, his feet too big for the sliver of a ledge on which they rested, before Irvington detectives and State Police hostage negotiators talked him down at about 8:10 p.m., Irvington Police Chief Michael Chase said.
A fall would have sent White at least 40 feet to the pavement.
"It was the professional response of all the officers involved that brought this to a calm resolution," Chase said. Authorities closed the Parkway between Exits 142 and 143B shortly after White clambered over the overpass' fence around 6 p.m., as thousands of motorists headed home for the evening.
To the north, traffic backed up to Exit 148 in Bloomfield. To the south, brake lights stretched as far as 10 miles, State Police estimated.
White was taken to University Hospital in Newark, where he was placed under psychological evaluation. Police charged him with creating a hazardous situation, Chase said.
The chief, who was among those participating in the negotiations, said White told them he was depressed because his fiancée had broken up with him and because he believed he had been coerced into pleading guilty to a crime he said he didn't commit.
Public records show White was convicted of aggravated criminal sexual contact in 1994.
"He said he was convinced to plead guilty to something he didn't do and that it ruined his life," Chase said. "He wanted to make his fiancee aware that what she was told was false."
In a conversation that Chase said was tense at times, White threatened repeatedly to jump from the overpass as he explained his troubles. Officers from both agencies worked to calm him, putting him on a telephone with his fiancée, who agreed to meet him at the hospital, Chase said.
The chief said officers also agreed to White's request that they at least look at his criminal case to see if it could be reopened. Details of the case were not immediately available.
Desaree Lowe watched the scene unfold from the corner of her porch on Union Avenue. Shortly after 8 p.m., she said, an Irvington officer approached and asked if anyone could spare a cigarette. White needed a smoke.
Lowe, 42, said she gave the officer her last Newport menthol. (niggas is a beautiful thang!) Minutes later, White allowed officers to cut the fence. Then he squeezed through to safety.
"The man needs some prayer," Lowe said. "He probably needed someone to talk to." (that, and your very last Newport menthol)
Chase said he had some previous knowledge of White, who had been arrested several times on minor charges over the years. That familiarity, the chief said, helped him build a rapport with White.
"We were able to calm him down and get him to talk to us," the chief said, crediting a host of officers, principally State Police hostage negotiator Frank Cruz.
ok, i do not even know where to start with this train wreck of a story. but let me state my honest opinion (1) there are too many questions here. he's JUST NOW getting upset about a 1994 conviction? (2) did his fiancee just find out, therefore prompting her to break up with him? (3) why is this just now being discovered and you are about to marry someone? (4) he obviously is not an upstanding citizen being that his "several arrests" on minor charges over the years built his rapport with the police officers. (5) PEOPLE, do your research on your mates!! background checks, credit reports, high school love letters-all that!!! but i find it hard to believe that ms. fiancee truly had no clue that this guy was a bum...with or without his 12 year old conviction. (6) he never intended on jumping cuz if he did, he would have...no conversation, no smoking, no dilly-dallying...none of that. if you are trying to kill yourself calmly and slowly-STAY AT THE HOUSE! take your time, watch some tv, smoke your crack, eat some spam, slit one wrist, get some ice-cream, slit the other wrist, take a bath, comb your hair and lay it down. but if you are trying to do something public, get it popping and let's move on so people can get on with their plans (7) i believe that the police department should be able to lay out a safety net and shoot the perpetrator with a tranquilizer dart, making them fall to safety...letting people get on with their day. kinda like those quick inflate rafts, just pull the plug, *BAM* shoot in the neck or ass and *THUD* drag em to jail. (8) the people who are inconvenienced should be able to participate in a drive-by "town-hall" like heckle-fest. (i think this should apply to people who cause senseless accidents that delay traffic also. not like when your brakes go, but when you are speeding, talking on the phone, putting on your shirt and eating, while balancing your checkbook kind of accidents) once the perpetrator is captured and/or subdued, people should be able to throw rotten tomatoes and eggs at them, shout obscenities and throw trash. just a little retribution for their inconvenience...someone had to get home to take some medicine or pay a bill before someplace closed, feed or pick up their kids, go to the bathroom or something really important to them. (9) back to mr. dummy, if he was so beat about his "false" conviction, why didn't he pull this in 1994 or 95? this smells fishy! (10) since he thinks his life is so misunderstood, what did he think this stunt was gonna do? earn him the purple heart of courage? (11) NIGGAS IS A BEAUTIFUL THANG!! (12) that fall would not have killed him...it was only forty feet (unless he fell on his head/neck). again i say, he was not trying to kill himself...he just would've been a little jacked up (13) and if i was the ex-fiancee, i am NOT getting on the phone with you NOR am i meeting your crazy ass at the hospital. obviously, you are either a scumbucket (hence the conviction, other arrests and breakup) AND/OR YOU ARE A PSYCHO, so if you jump, then your crazy butt can't come around bothering/harrassing/stalking me cuz i broke up with you (this puts me in the mind of the yvette cade from oprah whose husband burned her after she left him) and if you don't jump, the fact is-you showed me your CRAZAY card, so i NOW KNOW you have it in you to go coo-coo for cocoa puffs and i have NADA to say to you...hello? we just broke up, didn't we? if we couldn't work it out before, we ain't working it out on the damn bridge or in the loony bin (14) don't you just LOOOOOOVE how the neighbor sacrificed her very last Newport cigarette for a loon? (15) why was it necessary for us to know the brand of cigarette? (16) i can just see the neighbor in her housecoat and hair-rollers telling the reporters, "make sure ya'll write that i gave him my last newport, cuz ray-ray never got up to get me a new pack and i was just about to light that up cuz i didn't get my check today and the baby has diarrhea, and herman done left me again, but i saw a brotha in need so i gave it to him...ya got dat? that's NEWPORT, MENTHOLS in the green and white soft pack! psssst...can i get some newports for participatin' in this here tragedy? just send them to desaree with two E's." (17) did i say niggas is a beautiful thang?
as wendy williams and i cackled all the way home, i took note of how far back the cars were and not ONE was moving. dang! would hate to be on that side....maybe the news will be reporting the deal later. i get home, surf some channels and there's nothing. dang-what's the deal!?!? it had to be juicy....CRAP!!
well, early in the morn..........TA-DA!!!!!!!!!!!!!! the unveiling of what the friggin hold-up was on the parkway...i present
"NIGGAS IS A BEAUTIFUL THANG!!!!!!" - Honeycutt, from the movie Bamboozled
A 37-year-old man distraught over an old criminal conviction and a recent breakup with his fiancée threatened to jump from a Garden State Parkway overpass in Irvington yesterday, spawning miles-long backups during rush hour as police shut down the highway in both directions.
Deon White, an Irvington resident, spent more than two hours clinging to a chain-link fence atop the Union Avenue overpass, his feet too big for the sliver of a ledge on which they rested, before Irvington detectives and State Police hostage negotiators talked him down at about 8:10 p.m., Irvington Police Chief Michael Chase said.
A fall would have sent White at least 40 feet to the pavement.
"It was the professional response of all the officers involved that brought this to a calm resolution," Chase said. Authorities closed the Parkway between Exits 142 and 143B shortly after White clambered over the overpass' fence around 6 p.m., as thousands of motorists headed home for the evening.
To the north, traffic backed up to Exit 148 in Bloomfield. To the south, brake lights stretched as far as 10 miles, State Police estimated.
White was taken to University Hospital in Newark, where he was placed under psychological evaluation. Police charged him with creating a hazardous situation, Chase said.
The chief, who was among those participating in the negotiations, said White told them he was depressed because his fiancée had broken up with him and because he believed he had been coerced into pleading guilty to a crime he said he didn't commit.
Public records show White was convicted of aggravated criminal sexual contact in 1994.
"He said he was convinced to plead guilty to something he didn't do and that it ruined his life," Chase said. "He wanted to make his fiancee aware that what she was told was false."
In a conversation that Chase said was tense at times, White threatened repeatedly to jump from the overpass as he explained his troubles. Officers from both agencies worked to calm him, putting him on a telephone with his fiancée, who agreed to meet him at the hospital, Chase said.
The chief said officers also agreed to White's request that they at least look at his criminal case to see if it could be reopened. Details of the case were not immediately available.
Desaree Lowe watched the scene unfold from the corner of her porch on Union Avenue. Shortly after 8 p.m., she said, an Irvington officer approached and asked if anyone could spare a cigarette. White needed a smoke.
Lowe, 42, said she gave the officer her last Newport menthol. (niggas is a beautiful thang!) Minutes later, White allowed officers to cut the fence. Then he squeezed through to safety.
"The man needs some prayer," Lowe said. "He probably needed someone to talk to." (that, and your very last Newport menthol)
Chase said he had some previous knowledge of White, who had been arrested several times on minor charges over the years. That familiarity, the chief said, helped him build a rapport with White.
"We were able to calm him down and get him to talk to us," the chief said, crediting a host of officers, principally State Police hostage negotiator Frank Cruz.
ok, i do not even know where to start with this train wreck of a story. but let me state my honest opinion (1) there are too many questions here. he's JUST NOW getting upset about a 1994 conviction? (2) did his fiancee just find out, therefore prompting her to break up with him? (3) why is this just now being discovered and you are about to marry someone? (4) he obviously is not an upstanding citizen being that his "several arrests" on minor charges over the years built his rapport with the police officers. (5) PEOPLE, do your research on your mates!! background checks, credit reports, high school love letters-all that!!! but i find it hard to believe that ms. fiancee truly had no clue that this guy was a bum...with or without his 12 year old conviction. (6) he never intended on jumping cuz if he did, he would have...no conversation, no smoking, no dilly-dallying...none of that. if you are trying to kill yourself calmly and slowly-STAY AT THE HOUSE! take your time, watch some tv, smoke your crack, eat some spam, slit one wrist, get some ice-cream, slit the other wrist, take a bath, comb your hair and lay it down. but if you are trying to do something public, get it popping and let's move on so people can get on with their plans (7) i believe that the police department should be able to lay out a safety net and shoot the perpetrator with a tranquilizer dart, making them fall to safety...letting people get on with their day. kinda like those quick inflate rafts, just pull the plug, *BAM* shoot in the neck or ass and *THUD* drag em to jail. (8) the people who are inconvenienced should be able to participate in a drive-by "town-hall" like heckle-fest. (i think this should apply to people who cause senseless accidents that delay traffic also. not like when your brakes go, but when you are speeding, talking on the phone, putting on your shirt and eating, while balancing your checkbook kind of accidents) once the perpetrator is captured and/or subdued, people should be able to throw rotten tomatoes and eggs at them, shout obscenities and throw trash. just a little retribution for their inconvenience...someone had to get home to take some medicine or pay a bill before someplace closed, feed or pick up their kids, go to the bathroom or something really important to them. (9) back to mr. dummy, if he was so beat about his "false" conviction, why didn't he pull this in 1994 or 95? this smells fishy! (10) since he thinks his life is so misunderstood, what did he think this stunt was gonna do? earn him the purple heart of courage? (11) NIGGAS IS A BEAUTIFUL THANG!! (12) that fall would not have killed him...it was only forty feet (unless he fell on his head/neck). again i say, he was not trying to kill himself...he just would've been a little jacked up (13) and if i was the ex-fiancee, i am NOT getting on the phone with you NOR am i meeting your crazy ass at the hospital. obviously, you are either a scumbucket (hence the conviction, other arrests and breakup) AND/OR YOU ARE A PSYCHO, so if you jump, then your crazy butt can't come around bothering/harrassing/stalking me cuz i broke up with you (this puts me in the mind of the yvette cade from oprah whose husband burned her after she left him) and if you don't jump, the fact is-you showed me your CRAZAY card, so i NOW KNOW you have it in you to go coo-coo for cocoa puffs and i have NADA to say to you...hello? we just broke up, didn't we? if we couldn't work it out before, we ain't working it out on the damn bridge or in the loony bin (14) don't you just LOOOOOOVE how the neighbor sacrificed her very last Newport cigarette for a loon? (15) why was it necessary for us to know the brand of cigarette? (16) i can just see the neighbor in her housecoat and hair-rollers telling the reporters, "make sure ya'll write that i gave him my last newport, cuz ray-ray never got up to get me a new pack and i was just about to light that up cuz i didn't get my check today and the baby has diarrhea, and herman done left me again, but i saw a brotha in need so i gave it to him...ya got dat? that's NEWPORT, MENTHOLS in the green and white soft pack! psssst...can i get some newports for participatin' in this here tragedy? just send them to desaree with two E's." (17) did i say niggas is a beautiful thang?
*of course, death is not funny, but since that fool didn't die (or even jump), ya'll know i had to make fun of this story. also, committing suicide is no laughing matter, so i hope you know #5 is a joke. be easy bloggies. whoa, why am i explaining? ya'll know how i do-PEACE!!!!!!!!!!!!*
STAY TUNED FOR THURSDAY'S POST...MY PAPPARRAZI STINT IS OVER, TASK IS COMPLETE AND IT SHALL BE INTERESTING!!!
posted by Mrs A. at 8:49 AM
26 Comments:
Girl we have jumpers here in ATL all the time....and you are right...he never intended to jump cause he had too much conversation going on...in the ATL, Our jumbers just hurl themselves into on coming traffic...We have had a couple that survived the fall - at least for a few days in the hospital...so you know the "Am I gonna have to live like this (confined to a bed/wheel chair) prolly crosses their minds more than once. *smh* daggone shame he gonna inconvience errybody else cause he is ready to be outta here....he should really find another way to destress.
oops *jumpers* and yes suicide is NOT a laughing matter but folks who do it in a public place generally just want someome to listen to them. :(
mz. na-well, people who do stuff like this will have PLENTY of people to listen them, the police, the doctors at the loony bin, etc. i just can't get with that. i know there are people who are messed up in the head, but i just can't feel them on this mess (hence the reason i'm not a therapist-my patients would prolly jump right outta MY window). i mean, if it's for attention, do something that's not life-threatening...walk down the sidewalk butt naked, do a sit-in on the roof of your house/apartment complex for 40 days and nights, or be gangsta and do like bree from desparate housewives and straight check yourself into the crazy house and say you're about to have a friggin breakdown....something that will get you seen/heard but doesn't mess up the flow of things, especially for nothing. maybe i'm just mean, but i don't have the time! :-S
not to mention, his reasons were WACK!!! he's so broken up over something 12 years ago-YEAH RIGHT-YET, he still kept committing petty crimes, now he's all stressed and wants some sympathy-well, me no buy!!!! hee hee hee
:-D ROFL
Girl I know right...that dude is lying that was some straight garbage he was talking LOL talking bout some "she left me for something I did in niney-fo" (think country here) LOL nah she left you for something you did recently....like lie about what chu did in niney-fo *snicker*
i agree with your poimt # 12. 40 feet is NOTHING. he would have broken a few bones...thats about it.
think of how much gas was wasted by idling cars waiting for the mess to end.
mz. na-ya feel me? i mean, he is reaching with that one!!!!!!
reverend-that point is so true-GAS IS TOO HIGH to use getting where we need to go, let alone wasting it for the sake of crazy people!!! i am sooo glad i was on the other side, cuz something like that could make someone snap!
I have no comments on this whatsoever...wow. Yeah...94 and he's still mad? If he was gonna do something, he would've done it earlier. It kills me that people go to extremes when things go wrong for them. What would jumping have solved? Obviously, he was unstable, and his little stunt only further cemented that. Why would his fiancee go back to that? The interstate jumper? Oh yeah, 40 ft would've hurt him...on pavement, very badly. But if they hadn't stopped the flow of traffic, he could've died by getting ran over repeatedly...just thought I'd point that out.
charles-tu chez!!! hence his "un-'bout it-ness" (yeah, i made that up)...if he wanted to kill himself, he would've climbed and jumped...not chilled, waited for traffic delays, smoked a square, chit-chatted...what a punk move!ignorance is bliss and so is craziness...i bet crazy people really make sense to themselves. HA HA HA!!!!!!
The same thing happens here every now and then on the subway except they don't publicize it because when people actually jump, they have to close the station to clean up the mess...
Either way, your approach to hostage/suicide type negotation would really make people think about it twice though :).
damon-i've never heard of such..i mean not around here, so i was shocked at this spectacle. i think we just waste of lot of time on foolishness. these crazies can't really think that they're gonna get whatever it is they are after (unless it's publicity), so i say TAG & BAG-ADIOS!!!!!!!!!!! ROFL!!!!
I won't comment on what I think should happen to people like that because you wouldn't like what I have to say.
I will say that I would have been pissssssed if I had been sitting in the other line and someone hadn't given me a Newport.
word LIFE you shouldn't have explained a thing. clearly that was one of the most hilarious things i've read in a looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong time. wow... HILARIOUS!! definitely one of my faves "take your time, watch some tv, smoke your crack, eat some spam, slit one wrist, get some ice-cream, slit the other wrist, take a bath, comb your hair and lay it down." shut up crazy!! i know that's right! i'm always pissed when some idiot ruins the day/traffic sitch for us all. esp. b/c in pittsburgh there's rarely (see never) a good alternate route. and i'm gonna tell you FA SHOW people want compensation for their "help." you are going to go buy me a whole carton of newports, right? miss a.... you. are. FABULOUS!!!!
Oh, #7 is the ticket. Tranquilize 'em and drag to jail...too funny.
I think I like the rotten tomatoes and eggs idea too.
I woulda been pissed if I were trapped on the parkway while this nut was stressing over his failed relationship.
Can't wait til Thurs. Glad you liked the cookies. I think I'm going to get some today. :-D
I would have been ready to push him off the bridge if I were caught in that traffic.
did you really just say eat some spam? ROFLMAO!
chris-these are the things the public (i.e. ME) want to know....ah, the juicy details!!!!!
awe-hey, say what you want. you already know i support free speech within the bogiverse...what am i gonna do, spank you?-LOL!! its your opnion...we don't have to agree, so long as the readers/commenters are respectful to me and to each other within my page, i have no qualms...
meily-SEE!!!! you my DAWG!!!!! you see the hilarity in this madness. shoulda flown in some "BOMB" and just had a good ol' time-he coulda got his "freak-on" before going to the coo-coo's nest!!!...thanks, hon!!!
shawn-i really would throw things at them!!! for now, i have to settle on ice-grilling them as i drive by...but if i had been on that side, they would've had to call the law on me too...cuz i would've taken off running down the parkway screaming from the insanity. my ocd would not have allowed patience of that magnitude..especially if i didn't know at the time what the hold up was...and YES, i think i gained 2 pounds from eating cookies all weekend, YUM YUM!!!
luvin me-push, shoot, harpoon-i'm down for it all...just GET THEM THE HELL DOWN & OUTTA THE WAY!!!!!!
L-hey, do what you gotta do to get the job done!!!! just don't hinder my process, CRAZIES!!!!!!
The best part of this post is the Kris Kross in the backround! LOL
maybe a gorilla escaped from the zoo.....hilarious!!!! Co-sign on #11.
lmao@ believe that the police department should be able to lay out a safety net and shoot the perpetrator with a tranquilizer dart, making them fall to safety...letting people get on with their day. kinda like those quick inflate rafts, just pull the plug, *BAM* shoot in the neck or ass and *THUD* drag em to jail.
as i was reading the article i was thinking the same thing! i was like "poke him with a stun gun or something and get one of those nets to cushion his fall. unfortunately, by not dealing with this situation in a swift manner, other folk looking for attention will think it's a good idea. that guy shut everything down for two hours! for a person desperate for attention, a stunt like that is worth it for the two hours.
thats the new thang in the ATL jumping off bridges
ladynay-and why i still know EVERY WORD!?!?!?!
paula d.-i can't get enough of that phrase...i say it 100 times every day
nikki-thats why i work in my industry, cuz i would've been that officer like-shock this fool so i can get home and eat my dinner!
torrance-at least they jump off bridges and not overpasses-WHAT A JERK!!!
My boss tough I was crazy as I busted into laughter at # 7. The same shit happen here and the dude would not have died fromthe jump either. I think in situation that they would not die. You should tell tem to jump and take them to the hospital. I hate FUCKING TRAFFIC. I would have been out there encourgaing him to end it all. Dude is lame. Nice post and thanks for the laugh. Holla
you mean they didnt just shoot him and keep it movin?
Thats how they did in DC...
Its a wonder this never caught on in Pittsburgh...so many bridges..so many options.
Not her LAST Newport...dang girl...now that's a sacrifice right there...
Dog....I can't even begin to describe the HUH-LARIOUSNESSOCITY of this post!!!!!!!! First of all, the pictures..... Get it paparazzi!!!! Do you see his Timbs??? and his fitted under his hoodie?!?!?! NIGGAS!!!!
Number 6- "lay it down" classic. LOL
Next, number 7. I would LOVE to see someone shot with a stun-gun!! All I can picture is 'Meet the Fockers' when Ben Stiller was stunned on the side of the road LMAO!!!
Number 8- HELL YEAH!! I'd have a field day walking by whispering, "stupid ass...can't do NOTHING RIGHT!!" LOL
You are the best A!!!
I am so with you on #7...
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