Why jump?

Recently, a man broke his neck and back while leaping from a bridge into the Deschutes River, but that hasn’t discouraged others – which begs the question,

By Scott Hammers / The Bulletin
August 27, 2009

Wednesday afternoon, Joel Jensen pulled his raft to the edge of the Deschutes River and clamored over the rocks to the Gilchrist Street footbridge that crosses the river at Columbia Park, passing underneath the sign that announces a city ordinance banning diving from the bridge. Jensen, 40,....

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