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...powers - was briefly lured to the side of Good. Now he backslides into his natural malevolence. Donning a mask that looks like the one South Park's Butters wears when he turns into Professor Chaos, Magneto performs one impressive fit of mischief: he teleports one end of the Golden Gate Bridge from Sausalito to Alcatraz...
Kevin Hines, now 24, who survived a plunge off the Golden Gate Bridge and is now part of a campaign to add a barrier to the bridge, talked with TIME's Amanda Bower about his September 2000 jump. Here's his dramatic account, in his own words...
...would be too expensive. Golden Gate Bridge Highway and Transportation District spokeswoman Mary Currie says ballpark estimates put the cost of a barrier between $15 million and $25 million. "We don't know where those funds would come from," she says. It took over a year just to get the $2 million for the study. Then there is the cost of security cameras, telephones and regular police patrols aimed at stopping jumpers. (About 50 people a year are talked or pulled down before they jump...
...took another bus to the Golden Gate Bridge. I was crying. I was just so tired, so emotionally drained. I was just looking at people, wanting someone, anyone, to say, "Are you okay?" As much as I wanted that, I was hearing these voices saying, "You have...
...rail - and my legs curled over - as soon as I left the bridge, I thought, "I don't want to die." It's a four-second fall, and in those four seconds I said, "God, please save me." I had no idea that you could jump off the Golden Gate Bridge and live. That was foreign to me. You see these websites, they say, "If you want to kill yourself, go to the Golden Gate Bridge." I'm trying to shut them down...