SFist: Man Commits Suicide With Gun on Amtrak Train near Jack London Square

fizzandpop

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 15:24:56 -0800

It's left to the commenters to add the "gleeful" part.

Aventinus

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 15:19:54 -0800

"the gleeful reporting of murders and suicides on sfist is really disgusting ... lacking any journalistic ethics sfist treats a suicide like a scene out of grand theft auto that is to be paused and replayed again and again." Yeah, I don't see the "gleeful" part but at least SFist reports on murders that other journalistic ethical seem to ignore. Also, I think SFist treats suicide like a scene out of Burger Time when the mean old fried egg gets pepper in its eye(s?), but maybe that's just me.

kmsinsf

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 14:10:14 -0800

Have you ever been to Jack London Square? Its depressingly empty and bleak. I don't blame him.

pdx6

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 13:56:37 -0800

You headline spells Amtrak as AMTRACK. Plz advize.

brittney

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 13:00:49 -0800

Yeah, suicides that are witnessed by dozens of locals is a whole nother kind of newsworthy.

bluecanary

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 12:56:48 -0800

To be fair, sfist seems to only report suicides that take place in public. In a way, sfist is actually doing its part to fulfill these suicides' final wish by spreading publicity about their exits. If they didn't want publicity, they can stay home and kill themselves in private, thereby inconveniencing no one but who ever has to find the mess. If they choose to muck up traffic/force us to desecrate our bridge because of their public shenanigans, f**k em, I say.

manys

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 12:36:57 -0800

I want a refund!

Brock Keeling

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 12:33:02 -0800

badlydrawnbear plunges to his death from the sfist comment thread bridge. more info as it comes in!

Generic

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 12:19:35 -0800

@ badlydrawnbear It's not a bug, it's a feature.

badlydrawnbear

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 12:11:58 -0800

the gleeful reporting of murders and suicides on sfist is really disgusting ... lacking any journalistic ethics sfist treats a suicide like a scene out of grand theft auto that is to be paused and replayed again and again. There wasn't much usefull content on SFist to begin and the editors lack of any kind maturity or professionalism will mark this as my last visit to this site.

oskarv

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 12:08:59 -0800

ihartsf: they already nixed the idea, i believe.

travin

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 11:42:43 -0800

The news says he killed himself with a gun, on amtrak.

ihartsf

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 11:32:37 -0800

Based on what we know, it seems that more people kill themselves on Muni, BART, and CalTrain tracks than on the Golden Gate Bridge. Unless those transit agencies are going to suicide-proof their boarding areas, I think we should halt the GGB suicide barrier.