I knew it! I knew it could happen! People think I’m weird because I’m afraid of walking on bridges but people DO fall off of them! I cannot for the life of me find anything about this on the Web, but I heard on the radio today that some guy fell through the space between the sidewalk and the road on the Jacques-Cartier bridge this weekend. I also heard that the guy is alive and only got a few bruises. Wow. I can only imagine the force of the impact when he hit the water. Ouch!
When I lived in San Francisco, I took countless friends to the Golden Gate Bridge but I’m a bit ashamed to say that I never actually walked across the damn thing myself. I’d manage to walk to the first gate and say « ok, that’s it, see you back at the car. » There is a rather large space between the pedestrian walkway and the actual road of the bridge and I couldn’t help looking down at the water as I walked, which always gave me vertigo. Strangely, I don’t have a problem with driving across bridges (the link is a video), except for the Victoria bridge in Montreal, which scares the hell out of me.
