Don’t Do This At Home
Another person has died by falling into the gorge, something Cornell University is famous for. It doesn’t have to happen, though! The Police said they “saw a woman climb onto the railing of the bridge and fall into the water.” Well, the first mistake was climbing onto the railing of the bridge, a definite no no:
I’ve seen students climb up on bridge railings at the CTown Cascadilla gorge or Thurston Ave gorge, and I always wondered when one drunk sorority girl would lurch the wrong way at the wrong time, or a sudden gust of wind would push the Titanic-esque wannabe off the precipice.
Standing on the edge of the gorge is just not a good idea, unless you want to risk your life. It’s just not safe. Maybe only 1 in 1000 of the people that do it fall off, but there’s real, physical danger there. You want a thrill, go skydiving.
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just so everyone knows, it was not a student who jumped, or “fell”, it was a woman from the nearby town of auburn. these townies need to find another place to end it and stop giving us such a bad rep!!
It’s pretty ridiculous that you comment on the sorority girl falling into the gorge, as though you expect that girls in sororities are the only ones stupid enough to do that. In fact, do a little research, and you’ll find that most of the students who have in fact committed suicide at Cornell were not in sororities.
It’s not a funny situation but your picture is very funny in its simplicity. “Hello” standing atop the railing is “Bad”