{"id":9629,"date":"2011-06-02T12:59:19","date_gmt":"2011-06-02T16:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=9629"},"modified":"2011-06-02T13:47:17","modified_gmt":"2011-06-02T17:47:17","slug":"man-succeeds-in-suicide-attempt-over-an-hour-as-police-and-fire-rescue-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/06\/02\/man-succeeds-in-suicide-attempt-over-an-hour-as-police-and-fire-rescue-watch\/","title":{"rendered":"Man succeeds in suicide attempt over an hour, as police and fire rescue watch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/43233984\/ns\/us_news-life\" target=\"_blank\">hard-to-believe story<\/a> from Alameda, California:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Fire crews and police could only watch after a man waded into San Francisco Bay, stood up to his neck and waited. They wanted to do something, but a policy tied to earlier budget cuts strictly forbade them from trying to save the 50-year-old, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>A witness finally pulled the apparently suicidal man&#8217;s lifeless body from the 54-degree water.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>San Jose Mercury News<\/em> reported that the man, later identified as Raymond Zack, spent nearly an hour in the water before he drowned. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Perhaps they assumed that the suicidal man would get too cold and come back to shore, but it&#8217;s hard to understand how they could stand around <em>for an hour<\/em> and not do anything.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A hard-to-believe story from Alameda, California: Fire crews and police could only watch after a man waded into San Francisco Bay, stood up to his neck and waited. They wanted to do something, but a policy tied to earlier budget cuts strictly forbade them from trying to save the 50-year-old, officials said. A witness finally [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,13],"tags":[697,35,509,98,661,503],"class_list":["post-9629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bureaucracy","category-usa","tag-budget","tag-california","tag-civilservice","tag-police","tag-regulation","tag-sanfrancisco"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-2vj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9629"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9632,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9629\/revisions\/9632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}