Anti-Suicide Signs in Boston have Wrong Number(Pic included)

[Champ]

Just a week after the Herald revealed that anti-suicide signs on the Tobin Bridge had been removed by a state road crew, the signs are back - but with a wrong number.

Massport spokeswoman Danny Levy said yesterday the agency received six new signs from The Samaritans of Greater Boston and put them up on the bridge Tuesday.

But the phone number on the new signs - aimed at offering a potential lifeline to troubled souls considering suicide - is disconnected.

The organization's 24-hour suicide hotline is reachable at 617-247-0220. The phone number posted on the new blue signs is off by one digit. Hotline counselors were on duty last night at the correct number but were unable to put the Herald in contact with a Samaritans spokesperson.

The signs read, ``Desperate? Depressed? Help's Only A Call Away'' before listing the incorrect hotline number.

The disappearance of the signs earlier this year from the Tobin, site of many suicide attempts through the years, has left at least one family wondering whether a man who jumped to his death this spring might have availed himself of the hotline number.

When Joseph Marble, 25, plunged from the bridge sometime in late May or early June, the Samaritan signs were missing. His mother, Karen, of Gloucester, has pushed hard to see them restored.
http://news.bostonherald.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=95542

[matcom]

1. DOH!

ah, the FINAL rejection

[CanuckAmok]

2. OMG, that's a plot from a Chuck Palahniuk book!

One of the elements in "Survivor" is that the protagonist's home phone number is accidentally associated with a suicide hotline, so when he answers, he encourages callers to do themselves in.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

3. Your sig. It is disturbing. I may have to call the suicide hotline.

Who wrote that?