Word: riverred
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...legend of the daredevil building-hop continued Oct. 18 with the 29th annual Bridge Day in Fayetteville, West Virginia - the largest group BASE jumping event in the world. 383 people made the 876-foot leap off the New River Gorge Bridge. Only three were taken to the hospital, making it a successful year: three people have died during Bridge Day, the most recent being...
...winning joke is from a 12-year-old Northern Cheyenne boy: "Three men are riding in a pickup--two in the cab, one in back. The truck falls into the river. The two men open their doors and swim out but can't find the third man. Finally, he comes up. 'What took you so long?' they ask. 'I couldn't open the tailgate,' he says...
Three weeks after the stock market crash in 1929, Lawrence J. Fava jumped into the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia. He was a middle-aged real estate dealer, and he was "frantic" about the losses he had suffered, according to his suicide note. He left the note on the Girard Avenue Bridge and then leapt into the dark, frigid water, according to a small item published that month in the New York Times. But Fava survived the fall, and he regretted his decision at once...
Fava thought the Schuylkill River held a solution. Not a solution to his financial woes, alas, but to the anxiety that had hijacked his peace of mind. He was stalked by a fear of the future - "of the innocent persons who would suffer" because of his losses. But when he hit the river, he was suddenly afraid of something clear and present. Fava had perspective, and he clung to a piling in a desperate bid to undo his decision...
After Fava jumped into the Schuylkill River in 1929, his brain finally had a threat it knew how to handle. He held fast to the piling until he was rescued by a river police boat. The police delivered Fava to the Presbyterian Hospital, where he was revived...