The Tattooed Poets Project: Debbie Kirk

I always like to finish up the Tattooed Poets Project on a strong note, so today's tattooed poet, the last of this year's series, is the heavily-tattooed poet Debbie Kirk.


It also happens to be Debbie's birthday today, as we check out one of her tattoos. More specifically, let's look at the top of her left arm:



This piece, complete with straight razor, brass knuckles and cherry bomb, bears a banner that proclaims "Bow to your elders, you Emo Fucks."

I mean, what more can I say about that?

In discussing which tattoo of Debbie's to use, this exchange took place:

Tattoosday: "I hesitate to use the emo one because of the language and because I'm sure people will not understand why you would get it, but that makes me want to use it more".

Debbie: "its a favorite with peeps...it has been declared the sexiest tattoo ever..."

Tattoosday: "I love tattoos but they are generally so benign nowadays, so it's nice to see one with a true fuck-all attitude."

Debbie: "Yeah, that defines me what you said right there....and why I got the tattoo. I think that single tattoo is the most ME. I can be a bit honest...which is why people like my poetry."

Where'd she get the tattoo? Debbie recalls " I just remember I got it in Venice 5 years ago from a girl who proposed to me when I told her my idea...I still tell that story. I KNEW it was good with that reaction and she was hot."
 
Debbie gave us several poems to choose from, and the one we selected, she says, is very representative of her work:


Little Frankenstein girl
 
Little Frankenstein girl
has the hands of a pianist
And the heart of a broken organ
With thorns, glass
Bats and Indian ink
Seeping thro…
Sewn together
Crookedly stitched
Like a pastel valentine heart
Filled with mismatched parts

Little Frankenstein girl
Has the right brain of a killer
Her right hand is dominant
While her left foot always faces away
Wanting to disconnect
To run
To be free

To not be part of this
Fucked up experiment
Dreamt up by
A genius dressed in rags
And chased by demons
The kind that really scratch and bite
When you are fast asleep

Little Frankenstein girl
Is not a little girl anymore
The curls in her hair
Dreaded up in the sun
Medusa in the wind

Her loud strong voice
Muffled under the stitches
That firmly binds her lips together
Bondage bringing pleasure
Only to those who wish
To keep her silent
(and they are many)

The little Frankenstein girl
Can’t count the stitches on her wrists
From all of those nights
With her right hand doing
What her left foot
Wanted to walk away from
And her not understanding
That she was never really alive
In the first place

Little Frankenstein girl
All mixed up
And
Mix matched
Returning every evening
With fresh wounds to be sewn
From another vain attempt
To be mortal for just a few seconds
Before the fall

Little Frankenstein girl
Stolen parts
Come with stolen lies
Maggots and flies.
The gravedigger, looking to make a buck
Steals her a kiss
The moistness quenches her lips
He promises more kisses tomorrow
She scurries home
Knowing full well
She’s damned to a life of stolen kisses
And malfunctioning hearts
that spit in the moonlight.

~ ~ ~
Debbie Kirk has published 6 chapbooks and been in 12 anthologies and hundreds of print and online zines. She lives in Santa Cruz with her dog Dr. Gonzo.  She has a website she rarely updates at tntkirk.com but she can be best located lurking around Facebook!  Also check out http://tntkirk.com/.

Thanks to Debbie for sharing her tattoo and poetry with us here as we close out the Tattooed Poets Project on Tattoosday. Also, we wish her a very happy birthday today!

This entry is ©2011 Tattoosday. The poem is reprinted here with the permission of the author.

If you are reading this on another web site other than Tattoosday, without attribution, please note that it has been copied without the author's permission and is in violation of copyright laws. Please feel free to visit
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The Tattooed Poets Project: Debbie Kirk

I always like to finish up the Tattooed Poets Project on a strong note, so today's tattooed poet, the last of this year's series, is the heavily-tattooed poet Debbie Kirk.


It also happens to be Debbie's birthday today, as we check out one of her tattoos. More specifically, let's look at the top of her left arm:



This piece, complete with straight razor, brass knuckles and cherry bomb, bears a banner that proclaims "Bow to your elders, you Emo Fucks."

I mean, what more can I say about that?

In discussing which tattoo of Debbie's to use, this exchange took place:

Tattoosday: "I hesitate to use the emo one because of the language and because I'm sure people will not understand why you would get it, but that makes me want to use it more".

Debbie: "its a favorite with peeps...it has been declared the sexiest tattoo ever..."

Tattoosday: "I love tattoos but they are generally so benign nowadays, so it's nice to see one with a true fuck-all attitude."

Debbie: "Yeah, that defines me what you said right there....and why I got the tattoo. I think that single tattoo is the most ME. I can be a bit honest...which is why people like my poetry."

Where'd she get the tattoo? Debbie recalls " I just remember I got it in Venice 5 years ago from a girl who proposed to me when I told her my idea...I still tell that story. I KNEW it was good with that reaction and she was hot."
 
Debbie gave us several poems to choose from, and the one we selected, she says, is very representative of her work:


Little Frankenstein girl
 
Little Frankenstein girl
has the hands of a pianist
And the heart of a broken organ
With thorns, glass
Bats and Indian ink
Seeping thro…
Sewn together
Crookedly stitched
Like a pastel valentine heart
Filled with mismatched parts

Little Frankenstein girl
Has the right brain of a killer
Her right hand is dominant
While her left foot always faces away
Wanting to disconnect
To run
To be free

To not be part of this
Fucked up experiment
Dreamt up by
A genius dressed in rags
And chased by demons
The kind that really scratch and bite
When you are fast asleep

Little Frankenstein girl
Is not a little girl anymore
The curls in her hair
Dreaded up in the sun
Medusa in the wind

Her loud strong voice
Muffled under the stitches
That firmly binds her lips together
Bondage bringing pleasure
Only to those who wish
To keep her silent
(and they are many)

The little Frankenstein girl
Can’t count the stitches on her wrists
From all of those nights
With her right hand doing
What her left foot
Wanted to walk away from
And her not understanding
That she was never really alive
In the first place

Little Frankenstein girl
All mixed up
And
Mix matched
Returning every evening
With fresh wounds to be sewn
From another vain attempt
To be mortal for just a few seconds
Before the fall

Little Frankenstein girl
Stolen parts
Come with stolen lies
Maggots and flies.
The gravedigger, looking to make a buck
Steals her a kiss
The moistness quenches her lips
He promises more kisses tomorrow
She scurries home
Knowing full well
She’s damned to a life of stolen kisses
And malfunctioning hearts
that spit in the moonlight.

~ ~ ~
Debbie Kirk has published 6 chapbooks and been in 12 anthologies and hundreds of print and online zines. She lives in Santa Cruz with her dog Dr. Gonzo.  She has a website she rarely updates at tntkirk.com but she can be best located lurking around Facebook!  Also check out http://tntkirk.com/.

Thanks to Debbie for sharing her tattoo and poetry with us here as we close out the Tattooed Poets Project on Tattoosday. Also, we wish her a very happy birthday today!

This entry is ©2011 Tattoosday. The poem is reprinted here with the permission of the author.

If you are reading this on another web site other than Tattoosday, without attribution, please note that it has been copied without the author's permission and is in violation of copyright laws. Please feel free to visit
http://tattoosday.blogspot.com and read our original content. Please let me know if you saw this elsewhere so I contact the webmaster of the offending site and advise them of this violation in their Terms of Use Agreement.
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Tattoo Society Magazine - Mastering the art of Black and Gray

Tattoo Society Magazine - Mastering the art of Black and Gray
Tattoo Society Magazine - Mastering the art of Black and Gray

Tattoo Society Magazine (Mastering the art of Black & Gray, Issue 22) [Single Issue Magazine]
Tattoo Society Magazine (Mastering the art of Black & Gray, Issue 22)
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Japan's Tattoo Arts: Horiyoshi's World Vol. 1

Japan's Tattoo Arts: Horiyoshi's World Vol. 1

Japan's Tattoo Arts: Horiyoshi's World Vol. 1

This review is from: Japan's Tattoo Arts: Horiyoshi's World Vol. 1 (in Japanese & English) (Paperback)
Having read, and viewed many a tattoo magazine and book, as well as collecting many a tattoo of my own, it is hard to find a good book of tattoos that shows this many true masterpieces. This book has over 175 pages of beautiful bodysuits. Thinking of beginning a bodysuit? This is the place to begin.
Japan's Tattoo Arts: Horiyoshi's World Vol. 1 (in Japanese & English)
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Tattoo Society Magazine - Limited edition a Nightmare Special

Tattoo Society Magazine - Limited edition a Nightmare Special
Tattoo Society Magazine - Limited edition a Nightmare Special


Tattoo Society Magazine (Limited edition a Nightmare Special, Issue 24 2010)
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Revolver Magazine - The Tattoo Issue - The Bloody History of Hard Rock & Heavy Ink

Revolver Magazine - The Tattoo Issue - The Bloody History of Hard Rock & Heavy Ink

This review is from: Revolver Magazine (March/April 2010) (The Tattoo Issue! The Bloody History of Hard Rock & Heavy Ink! Slayer; Ozzy; Henry Rollins; Slipknot; Motorhead) (Single Issue Magazine)
This is a must have for your ink inspired collection. I collect anything & everything Henry (as in Rollins; God of the Spoken Word), & that's how I stumbled apon this gem. It's worth the price in pics alone, but the insightful articles & interviews will make you happy you discovered it.
Revolver Magazine (March/April 2010) (The Tattoo Issue! The Bloody History of Hard Rock & Heavy Ink! Slayer; Ozzy; Henry Rollins; Slipknot; Motorhead)
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Juxtapoz Tattoo - Henry Lewis, Roger Gastman

Juxtapoz Tattoo - Henry Lewis, Roger Gastman

Juxtapoz Tattoo - Henry Lewis, Roger Gastman

Product Description
The second book in an ongoing series from the seminal West Coast art and culture magazine, Juxtapoz Tattoo focuses on a subject very dear to the inked hearts of its readers. Most of the featured artists came up at the beginning of Tattoo s modern renaissance in the mid 1990 s, hungry for a new approach, but steeped nonetheless in the traditions of their craft. Whether these gifted tattooists are creating a modern twist on a classic archetype, or pushing the boundaries of the future primitives aesthetic, innovation is the common goal. Featured tattooists include; Troy Penning, Alex McWatt, Brian Randolph and Chris O Donnell of New York Adorned, Scott Campbell, Daniel Trocchio, Steve Boltz, Bert Krak, Henry Lewis, Joseph Ari Aloi, Jason Schroder, Eli Quinters and more.
Juxtapoz Tattoo
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Tattoo Society Magazine Issue Number 25 - Good Art for Great Artists

Tattoo Society Magazine Issue Number 25 - Good Art for Great Artists

Tattoo Society Magazine Issue Number 25 - Good Art for Great Artists
Tattoo Society Magazine Issue Number 25 - Good Art for Great Artists
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Tattoo Nation: Portraits of Celebrity Body Art (Rolling Stone Magazine)

Tattoo Nation: Portraits of Celebrity Body Art (Rolling Stone Magazine)

Tattoo Nation: Portraits of Celebrity Body Art (Rolling Stone Magazine)
From Publishers Weekly
Popularized by sailors and bikers, tattoos have become indispensable fashion accessories for rockers and rappers, whose professional responsibility it is to embody exotic, outlaw primitivism to the public. Hence this coffee-table collection of photographs of tattooed celebrities culled from the pages of Rolling Stone. The portraits here, by famous celebrity and fashion photographers, are heavily weighted toward sleeveless, scowling male musicians, whose remarkably consistent tattoo tastes run to a comic book aesthetic of gothic lettering, deaths heads, dragons and babes (until they age and begin inscribing wives' and childrens' names into their flesh). Accompanying interviews and captions allow the subjects to pontificate on the personal significance of their tattoos ("Weed was the biggest part of my life at that point," muses Crazytown's Shifty Shellshock of his marijuana-leaf tattoo). While fans of the celebrities pictured here will swoon over the lush photos, the book fails to make the case for tattoos as real works of art capable of signifying something to onlookers as well as to their owners.

Product Description
Tattoos, rock and roll, and "Rolling Stone"--the ideal combination for the ultimate book on celebrities and their tattoos. "Tattoo Nation" features 100 candid and never-before seen photos and revealing interviews that chronicle the gradual emergence of this evocative art form into mainstream society via pop-culture icons.
Tattoo Nation: Portraits of Celebrity Body Art (Rolling Stone Magazine)
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Ink: The Not-Just-Skin-Deep Guide to Getting a Tattoo

Ink: The Not-Just-Skin-Deep Guide to Getting a Tattoo


Ink: The Not-Just-Skin-Deep Guide to Getting a Tattoo
Ink: The Not-Just-Skin-Deep Guide to Getting a Tattoo
Review
... must-have for every tattoo shop … great recommendation to give to those thinking of beginning their body art journey. -- Tattoo Magazine, July, 2005
Product Description
For anyone who's considered joining the tribe of the tattooed.

This fun, fact-filled, fascinating guide includes information on choosing the perfect tattoo, finding a tattoo artist, staying health-conscious, long-term effects, and much more.
Ink: The Not-Just-Skin-Deep Guide to Getting a Tattoo
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tattoo kele' kecut....2011


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Tattoo Design for Girl

girl tattoo design This is not an easy job for a girl or woman to choose the tattoo that best suits their style and personality. Men have the fastest decision-making process when it comes to tattoos. However, for women, it is to ensure that it will take them weeks or even months to think about, browse over and over again and finally choose one that is perfect for their bodies.
Girl tattoo designs such as butterflies that are popular among women. Some may be due to different features of the butterfly somehow reflect the character of the carrier’ s. Butterfly is a free, lightweight and attractive. With brilliant color their wings make a very cute insects. Girls are most likely to put either a butterfly tattoo on the shoulder or in the lower back. Rose tattoo design for girl looks so perfect because it is a typical representation of women. This is femininity, simplicity and elegance. A woman can be soft like a rose and can be tricky and dangerous as its thorns. This is probably the reason why women chose to ride, especially with natural red color.
girl tattoo design
girl tattoo design
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Tattoo Art Design * Home Women and Tattoos Women and Tattoos Women and Tattoos What greater way to express yourself in the coolest way possibl

Dragon tattoos are one of the most popular designs all over the world. It can go in any category, whether abstraction, naturalistic, dedication, stylized or combination tattoos.
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Women and Tattoos

Women usually prefer more delicate tattoos such as flowers, butterflies, fairies and generally favor more colorful, fun, and intricate tattoo designs. Which is probably the most sellable among women especially the younger ones. You can also get a tattoo that is in the form of a text, some letters, Chinese or Japanese calligraphy, or you can get all sorts of shapes and sizes.
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Hot Tatto

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Hot Tatto

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Hot Tatto


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koi fish tattoo


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Hispanic Gang Tattoos

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Devil tatto

Angel devil tattoos have really been gaining in popularity.Align Center
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Manuver NU


SURABAYA - Kalangan kiai dari Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) diperintahkan mendekati kelompok-kelompok Islam beraliran radikal. "PBNU telah membuat keputusan agar para ulama dan kiai 'turun gunung' mendekati kelompok-kelompok radikal," kata Ketua Pengurus Besar Nahdlatul Ulama (PBNU), Saifullah Yusuf, di Surabaya, Selasa (19/4).

Ia menduga anggota kelompok-kelompok radikal itu kini telah terpengaruh oleh ideologi dari luar sehingga mereka dengan mudahnya terprovokasi melakukan perbuatan membabi buta seperti dalam kasus bom bunuh diri di masjid Ad-Dzikro, Mapolresta Cirebon, Jawa Barat, Jumat (15/4).

Saifullah yang juga Wakil Gubernur Jatim itu mengemukakan bahwa dalam sejarah Islam masuk ke Indonesia melalui pendekatan budaya lokal. "Artinya, Islam masuk ke Indonesia menyesuaikan dengan kearifan masyarakat setempat dan menghindari cara-cara kekerasan," kata Ketua Dewan Penasihat Pimpinan Pusat (PP) Gerakan Pemuda (GP) Ansor itu.

Oleh sebab itu, dia yakin anggota kelompok Islam yang melakukan tindak kekerasan itu terpengaruh oleh ideologi asing. "Saat ini memang sudah banyak di kalangan kita yang tertular ideologi impor tersebut. Karena itu, tugas kita adalah meluruskan kembali pemahaman mereka," katanya.

Ia menilai bahwa kelompok-kelompok tertentu yang ingin menjadikan Indonesia sebagai negara Islam adalah langkah mundur. Menurut dia, perdebatan bentuk negara Indonesia sebagai "Daarul Islam" (negara Islam) dan "Daarus Salaam" (negara sejahtera) terjadi pada periode 1915-1930.

"Kecenderungan bangsa ini akhirnya mengarah pada 'Daarus Salam'. Hal itu akhirnya ditegaskan lagi setelah proklamasi kemerdekaan," kata Wagub.

Kepada pihak kampus, Saifullah juga mendorong para tenaga pengajar memberikan pendidikan tentang ideologi yang konstruktif kepada para mahasiswa. "Jatim saat ini memang situasinya sangat kondusif. Tetapi bukan berarti kita tidak waspada. Justru kewaspadaan sangat penting untuk mengantisipasi kemungkinan yang akan terjadi," katanya

Sumber: Antara
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Tuesday, April 19, 2011 0 comments

Seribu Warga Buleleng Terinfeksi HIV


SINGARAJA - Komisi Penanggulangan AIDS Daerah (KPAD) Buleleng mencatat hingga kini warga di wilayah itu yang terinfeksi HIV/AIDS sudah mencapai 1.070 orang. "Kasus ini memprihatinkan karena ternyata 30 persen korbannya adalah pelajar dan 15 persen merupakan ibu rumah tangga," kata Ketua KPAD Buleleng, Made Arga Pynatih, pada sosialisasi penanggulangan HIV/AIDS dan kesehatan reproduksi remaja di Universitas Panji Sakti Singaraja, Selasa (19/4).

Pynatih yang juga Wakil Bupati Buleleng itu mengungkapkan bahwa untuk menanggulangi penyebaran virus mematikan itu tidak mudah. Pasalnya, 80 persen proses penularannya diakibatkan oleh hubungan seks.

"Salah satu cara ampuh untuk menanggulangi virus mematikan ini adalah dengan komitmen diri yang kuat untuk setia terhadap pasangan dan selalu menggunakan alat pengaman kondom dalam melakukan hubungan seks yang berisiko," katanya.

Selaku wakil bupati dia juga mengingatkan bahwa HIV/AIDS telah mengakibatkan delapan kepala keluarga di Kabupaten Buleleng putus garis keturunannya. Itu terjadi karena virus tersebut dibawa oleh salah satu anggota keluarga yang menular kepada anggota keluarga lainnya.

Sosialisasi mengenai bahaya penyakit yang mematikan itu digelar Universitas Panji Sakti Singaraja bekerja sama dengan KPAD Buleleng itu juga melibatkan para mahasiswa.


Kegiatan dengan tema "Melalui Hari Kartini Kita Tingkatkan Pemberdayaan Perempuan Dalam Peran Serta Penanggulangan HIV/AIDS dan Kesehatan Reproduksi Remaja" itu dilaksanakan sebagai bentuk simpati dan prihatin terhadap hilangnya jiwa orang terdekat, kerabat atau bahkan keluarga terkasih karena ganasnya virus HIV/AIDS.


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Tata Group Investasi USD27 Miliar

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NEW DELHI - Perusahaan raksasa India, Tata Group menginvestasikan USD27 miliar dan memprediksikan dalam lima tahun ke depan investasinya tersebut sudah berkembang menjadi USD75 miliar.

Sekarang ini, Tata Group yang telah memiliki 100 anak usaha ini akan menginvestasikan uangnya di berbagai sektor usaha seperti listrik, automobil, telekomunikasi dan kimia. Investasi ini termasuk investasi di bidang pipeline senilai USD3,7 miliar di barat Gujarat dan USD 4,4 miliar baja di pusat Chhatiiisgarh.

"Kita pasti akan menjadi pemain global yang signifikan di berbagai sektor yang kita investasikan itu" ujar Managing Direktur Tata Group Kishor A Chaukar seperti dilansir dari AFP di Jakarta.

Dia juga yakin bahwa lima tahun mendatang, grup usahanya akan menginvestasikan USD27 miliar untuk sektor perumahan di India. Ketika ditanya optimismenya dalam investasi ini, Chaukar menjawab bahwa ia yakin investasinya akan memberi keuntungan dua kali lipat sebelum lima tahun. "Sekira USD 140-150 miliar," yakinnya.

Seperti diketahui, Tata Industri adalah anak usaha Tata Group. Pemiliknya Ratan Tata (73) merencanakan akan pensiun pada Desember 2012 dan sedang berusaha mencari pengganti dirinya. Seharusnya pengumuman siapa pengganti dirinya diumumkan Maret lalu, tetapi diundur sampai akhir Mei mendatang.

Ratan telah melihat bahwa perusahaan keluarga ini telah memiliki pendapatan 40 kali lipat dibandingkan saat ia mengendalikan perusahaan itu di tahun 1991. 
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HOT Angel Malid





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Maksud Hati Bunuh dari Golden Gate, eh...


SAN FRANSISCO - Jika ajal belum menjemput apa pun bisa terjadi. Seorang gadis remaja yang berusia 16 tahun dan berusaha bunuh diri dengan melompat dari Golden Gate Bridge di San Francisco mendarat dengan selamat di dalah satu sisi jembatan, kata pihak berwenang, Senin (18/4).

Remaja putri itu ditemukan "dalam keadaan sadar dan memberi reaksi" di bawah jembatan gantung tersebut, sekitar pukul 11.15 waktu setempat Ahad (17/4), kata jurubicara Penjaga Pantai AS Levi Read kepada Reuters.

Ia ditarik dari San Francisco Bay ke satu perahu Penjaga Pantai dan dibawa di rumah sakit yang berdekatan. Seberapa parah luka yang dideritanya tidak jelas.

Wanita juru bicara bagi Golden Gate Trnsit District mengkonfirmasi gadis remaja tersebut, yang tak disebutkan jati dirinya oleh pihak berwenang, melompat dari jembatan itu dalam upaya menghabisi nyawanya sendiri. "Itu adalah upaya nyata bunuh diri," kata wanita juru bicara Mary Currie.

Menurut statistik Golden Gate Bridge Highway dan Transportation District, setiap tahun puluhan orang berusaha bunuh diri dengan melompat dari jembatan itu, yang memiliki ketinggian 270 kaki di atas permukaan air.
Pada 2010, menurut pihak berwenang, ada 25 aksi bunuh diri yang dikonfirmasi. Sebanyak 75 orang lagi dicegah saat berusaha melompat. "Itu kejadian yang cukup umum," kata wanita juru bicara Dinas Pemadam San Francisco, Mindy Talmadge.

"Sangat umum seseorang selamat saat melakukan tindakan itu, dan kendati saya tak mengetahui bagaimana kondisi remaja tersebut, tampaknya ia akan selamat," kata Talmadge.

Pada Maret, seorang remaja lelaki yang berusia 17 tahun juga selamat setelah ia melompat dari jembatan itu, dan cuma menderita memar. Talmadge mengatakan remaja lelaki tersebut tampaknya melompat "untuk main-main" dan bukan bermaksud bunuh diri.
Sumber: Antara

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HEWAN-HEWAN KEREN






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