Um... I'm not seeing a picture...

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Oh, it seems my computer fixed itself... that really is an ironic picture.

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It's a zen thing.

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You have to wish it is there. :)

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Think anyone who reads your LJ lives in SF and would be willing to take a stroll across the GG and take a verification picture?

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At a guess, I would say this is the east side of the bridge, looking towards Marin. Probably a little south of the middle, judging by the arc of the suspension cable. But I live in Colorado and have only been to SF one time for two days, so I'm probably full of crap.

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I'm in SF, so could check some time, but keep in mind that yellow note is temporary, and we don't know how old this photo is.

And I disagree with fantasy_goat. It's not so hard to believe this is real.

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Yeah, I'm sure you're right - the note must be gone by now. Maybe the phone is even fixed!

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doesn't the golden gate bridge have the highest rate of jumpers in the world? i know a documentary was recently made exclusively from film footage of people jumping off this bridge, anyway. so this might actually exist.

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You're missing the point.

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no, i grasped the point, i just wanted to share what i thought was interesting trivia.

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lol nice1

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A local talk radio dj was jokingly pushing for 200 by 2000, about a decade back.

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Other than the last 4 numbers being shopped out it's real.

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"I'm at a loss, God. Please, give me a sign..."

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For excellence in the commenting arts, may I present you with this internets, suitable for framing.

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You forgot the pie!

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I get pie, too!?

Man, I need to speak more often.

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The pie is a lie!

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I've always wanted an internets. I shall frame it and put it on my wall (perhaps right next to my honorary doctorate in theology and my restraining order against God...you know, spice-up the wall a bit).

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no picture?

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i can kinda relate

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I always wonder how companies can find the time to hang a sign around something that doesn't work, to let everyone know that it in fact does not work, but it takes forever to actually fix the problem? If you're going to roll a van to the phone, how 'bout you take some tools instead of a stack of "Out of Order" signs on giant Post-It notes with ya, eh? Heh.

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I have often wondered this myself. Glad I'm not alone.

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I fix clock cards at work by pushing reset buttons *inside* the locked covers - the cat 5 cable is dodgy and they sometimes go offline.
Once, when a chip burnt out I tried the reset, and nothing happened, and so I put an out of order sign up and phoned the suppliers...

Sometimes the first line fixers aren't the people with the most tech-experience. The sign was probably put up by a very nce bridge inspector or someone.

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I figured the fact that it puts a police number and not a telephone company number made it somewhat obvious that it wasn't the phone company that put the sign there.


What I wanna know is how they found out it was broken.

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Just because the number to the San Francisco Police Department is on there doesn't mean it Wasn't put there by the telephone company, although I don't think the phone company actually services those phones and they're probably maintained by the Golden Gate Authority. Whatever the case may be, that has to be a pretty grim job.

"Oh what do you do?"

"I uh make sure the suicide phones on the bridge work."

"... Oh."

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So much emotion. Thank you.

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"The consequences of..." looks totally photoshopped to me.

Crooked and just....fake looking.

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You're missing the point, too.

Look lower.

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Oh no, I definitely saw that. I thought that that sign could easily be faked too.............. but now that I see the photo that whipartist put up, well,..... :( & lol simultaneously.

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That's real. (Grew up in the Bay Area.)

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It's real. See the picture I posted.

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I got a picture of what's almost certainly the same phone a year and a half ago.

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Not sure if it's better or worse without the sign!

Either way........... sad. And laughable. And sad.

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Thank you for restoring my faith in humanity's endless ability to totally fail.

Let's hear it for reality!

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I'm sure they can break too...


How sad if you're jumping because you can't afford your bills - including your cell/mobile phone.

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It probably is real. Golden gate has a LOT of jumpers.

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"I dunno, maybe I shouldn't kill myself. I know, I'll call someone up with this handy-dandy phone, and... Oh. Well, I guess no one really does care. Screw it."

*jumps*

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In high school, while riding the handicapped-and-injured people elevator, I opened the "emergency phone" box. Inside was a piece of paper that had a picture of a phone, and the words

"In Case Of An Emergency, You'll Wish The School Had Installed A Phone Instead Of Building A 6 Million Dollar Stadium."

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Wow.

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Geez, its about time that my city got this sign up. With the amount of people that have offed themselves there, you would think that they would of had that sign years ago.

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"Aw man, I already canceled my cell service..."

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everything's got a safety disclaimer these days. san francisco worried that the family of a jumper would sue for not warning the jumper that jumping could kill them? are there people who think they'll jump and come out with a trophy?

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I have another picture of a similar sign with no phone underneath it. Or next to it. Or any preposition relating to the sign, because there was no phone! Gotta love SF. That's why I moved.

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