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throwback jump storiesrevisiting compelling skyway incidents, on facebook. |
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04.20.25,
facebook post -
05.24.10: Anthony Daniel Walter, 27,
was battling mental illness and criminality. he was on and off anti-pyschotic
drugs and apparently smoked a lot of pot, perhaps resulting in "psychosis and
schizophrenia". 04.13.25, facebook post - 11.22.00: Rodney Kibler, 30, and Arthur Clark, 28, get drunk, form a suicide pact, and go to the skyway. Kibler jumps and dies. Clark chickens out and a fhp trooper talks him off the edge. 04.06.25, facebook post - 02.05.14: Kelly Lynn Micklewait Krapfl, 35, mother of 4, ages 8, 7, 5, and 4 months, ends her life after begging for the mental health help she knew she needed. 03.30.25, facebook post - 08.26.62: Hazel Rooks attempts to jump off the skyway, but is prevented by a passerby. then on 01.07.64, at 41, she jumps off the skyway and succeeds at ending her life. 03.23.25, facebook post - 01.27.59: Johnnie H. Wright, 33, attempts to jump off the skyway, but is prevented by the police. in a struggle, he disarms a policeman and shoves the gun in the officer's back, before being disarmed himself by another officer. then on 11.08.59, he jumps off the skyway and survives. on 12.06.59, he threatens to shoot himself with a shotgun, before overdosing on sleeping pills. he survived. there is no indication of further failed attempts at his self-demise. 03.16.25, facebook post - 07.17.81: Michael Plezia, 29, was beaten, knifed, and forced at gun point to jump off the skyway to his death, after being accused of stealing and pawning stereo equipment. 03.09.25, facebook post - 01.08.15: worthless father John Nicholas Jonchuck Jr., 25, murders his daughter, Phoebe Jade Jonchuck, 5, by throwing her off the 'dick misener' bridge, which is on the way to and just north of the skyway. 02.23.25, facebook post - 03.13.10: Todd Alan Korell, 43, got up during the night, slipped out of the house, and ended his life off the skyway. his wife, Deborah, then began her advocacy to place jump preventions on the skyway by publicly sharing Todd's story and how it affected her life afterward. 02.16.25, facebook post - 12.15.08: Alfredo Granaiola, 42, jumps off the skyway and survives the initial impact. a boater tries to save him, but he soon succumbs to his injuries. read the graphic description of what a skyway jump rescue attempt entailed, or maybe not. 02.09.25, facebook post - 05.15.19: Anthony Gary Deese, 36, a violent habitual criminal, rightfully jumps to his death after an armed carjacking. 02.02.25, facebook post - 05.06.98: John Radd, 44, jumps off the skyway. his dog Shasta, either jumps after him or was taken along for the ride. man dies, dog lives. 01.26.25, facebook post - 08.23.93: Donna Marie Klein, 16, and Marc Weigel, 15, perhaps the youngest to leap off the skyway, die in suicide pact, upset that Marc's mother was separating them by sending him back to ohio to live with his father. 01.19.25, facebook post - 02.28.03: Izra James Richard Nowitzke, 25, a floridiot with a cowboy hat and lasso, climbs a yellow skyway cable. was it a save? a failed jump attempt? some crack fueled jackassery? he eventually gets hauled away and goes on to rack up a long loser life of crime. 01.12.25, facebook post - 10.12.09: Robert Cecil Laird, 38, shoots and kills his ex-wife in lakeland, puts her body into the trunk of her car, drives to the top of the skyway bridge, set the car on fire, and then jumps to his well-deserved death, thus saving the taxpayers the burden of a trial and lengthy incarceration. 01.05.25, facebook post - 09.05.73: Thomas Warns, 24, jumps from the skyway bridge and survives. two weeks later, he jumps from the fifth floor of a building, hits an awning, and only injures his ankle. on 12.15.73, he intentionally throws himself under a semi-truck and gets crushed. it appears that the third time was a charm. a comment: 04.20.25, Joey L., Can you rephrase these? Throwback makes it sound like a nostalgic look back. I love the infrequency of the posts on this account since the fence went up, and can understand the importance of discussing mental health from a historical perspective. Just seems like there is a better way to frame it. defined: throwback /thrō′băk″/ noun, one that has characteristics of an earlier time. used in a sentence: these throwback jump stories have characteristics of an earlier time. |