[UPDATE] Hwy 101 Northbound Was Shut Down at Rio Dell for Possible Suicidal Subject

Northbound Hwy 101 is marked with flares to divert traffic through Rio Dell. [Photo by Estelle Fennell]

Hwy 101 northbound is closed by Rio Dell as of 7:45 p.m. A witness told us that a person is standing on the outside of the Davis Street overpass apparently in a suicidal attempt.

According to scanner traffic, a law enforcement official is communicating with the person and attempting to dissuade him/her from jumping. Meanwhile, a negotiator is on the way.

Northbound traffic is being diverted through Rio Dell. Southbound is continuing normally.

UPDATE: Unconfirmed reports that the subject has been removed from the bridge.

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Crime stopper
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Crime stopper
6 years ago

Just great. One idiot decides to show off ,and the immediate response by Caltrans will now be a $1,000,000 fence barrier installion on ALL overpasses in Humboldt. Thanks jerk!

come down off the roost
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come down off the roost
6 years ago
Reply to  Crime stopper

Yeah I don’t think CalTrans Humboldt works like the Golden Gate bridge jumpers. Oh and, some of the barriers are already there before all of this.

Guest
Guest
Guest
6 years ago
Reply to  Crime stopper

People like you and your insensitive comments are destroying my hope for mankind.I’m going to pray for your awakening.

just me
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just me
6 years ago
Reply to  Guest

guest i have seen you write worse.what a piece of work you are. he needs to man up. probably a Hillary supporter that got triggered by a cloud floating by.

Guest,
Guest
Guest,
6 years ago
Reply to  just me

You do know that any one who post on here without putting in a name is automatically posted as guest right? Probably not the same guest, or maybe it is? Or is it me? Shit am I them? No,no I’m me. I think, whew!

Der!
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Der!
6 years ago
Reply to  Guest,

Lmao

butterflymom707
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butterflymom707
6 years ago
Reply to  Guest

the man needs help, not hurtful comments….thank God they were able to get him down!

Humboldt Lady
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Humboldt Lady
6 years ago
Reply to  Crime stopper

[edit] Have some compassion for this human…

Meow
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Meow
6 years ago
Reply to  Humboldt Lady

*you’re

Joey Kroh
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Joey Kroh
6 years ago
Reply to  Meow

Uh….actually he used “your” correctly….

Fuck You
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Fuck You
6 years ago
Reply to  Crime stopper

This comment says a lot about you as a person. Glad your so concerned about what cal trans is going to do

Ben Round
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Ben Round
6 years ago
Reply to  Crime stopper

Hey Crime Stopper, you sound like a person who would support T-Rump’s wall with Mexico. Right?

just me
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just me
6 years ago
Reply to  Ben Round

i like trump. like the wall to. i like interment camps better. lets put the illegals in the interment camps .

fool thinks he's part of Trumps plan!
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fool thinks he's part of Trumps plan!
6 years ago
Reply to  just me

Let’s put you there!

Ben Round
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Ben Round
6 years ago
Reply to  Ben Round

Gee ‘A’. The point I am trying to make is that some people want to condemn some expenses and yet are super hypocritical in that they then support wasteful projects like ‘the wall’. That is valid conversation. Sorry if you don’t see it that way.

hcjenk
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hcjenk
6 years ago
Reply to  Crime stopper

Shut the fuck up. Our mental health services is shit, he needs help. He’s still there, I can only hope for a safe outcome with the help he needs.

Pickachu
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Pickachu
6 years ago
Reply to  Crime stopper

I guess “Crime Stopper” has never been in Rio Dell. The Davis overpass bridge already has the high mesh on both sides. Must be fun living in mommy’s basement and not getting out much.

Black Tail Addict
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Black Tail Addict
6 years ago
Reply to  Pickachu

As a kid in the early 80s walking that overpass on the outside of the fence was a right of passage. In hindsight we were dumbass’s.

Rebecca Randa
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Rebecca Randa
6 years ago
Reply to  Crime stopper

[edit]show some compassion for this person , you have no idea what they are going through in their day to day life, one bad innsodent and something in your life happens and that could if been you!!!! . Next There is no way that CalTrans And the County – State would do that for one isolated innsodent like this, and it would not coast a million dollars. Next what if the person had done it and jumped would u still be talking like this???? … Next have you given any thought thought at all about how that person would feel if he read what u wrote about her – her , and what they might feel after reading ur nasty comments. …

Cowabunga
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Cowabunga
6 years ago

Hope they are able to help this person.

Peggy Sarver
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6 years ago
Reply to  Cowabunga

Praying the person gets the help they need. You are loved praying for your safety and well-being

Pikachu
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Pikachu
6 years ago

Ruh roh

to jump or not to jump
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to jump or not to jump
6 years ago

well its been well over two-three hours now.. how many resources? unless he/she dives headfirst all they risk is a couple of broken legs. its only 18 ft or less. divert the traffic, and leave the area. watch from afar. take the show away. take the forum. see what happens then. i highly doubt all the flashing lights badges, stopped traffic, and negotiators have prevented the inevitable. they are just making the “show” way bigger.

butterflymom707
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butterflymom707
6 years ago

they got him down…..that’s all that’s important

Shawn Cherry
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Shawn Cherry
6 years ago

Hahaha, it had to be about Trump in some way. Too much. Is Davis street overpass even high enough for terminal velocity? As long as traffic is stopped, they should be fine.

Anonymous
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Anonymous
6 years ago
Reply to  Shawn Cherry

Like I said to someone else, Trump has nothing to do with it [edit]!!!

Ben Round
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Ben Round
6 years ago
Reply to  Anonymous

Hey, Anonymous. This is “someone else”.
You the T-Rump neighborhood enforcer? Or do you try to censor people who speak against all politicians? Or, being generous here, are you, in your own, interesting way, trying to protect everyone from being maligned?
PS: Read my earlier reply to your response to me. Might be informative……

Ben
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Ben
6 years ago

I saw this as I drove south.. Impressive ..

Chuck
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Chuck
6 years ago

Kym is back! Everything OK?

Squirrely
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Squirrely
6 years ago
Reply to  Kym Kemp

Kym, Missed you. Feel better soon

Ya
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Ya
6 years ago
Reply to  Kym Kemp

Ugh that cold can be brutal kym!!! Try some steams to loosen stuff up. Get well soon!!!!

Dan Fuller
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Dan Fuller
6 years ago
Reply to  Kym Kemp

Hope you feel better SOON!!!

Smiles
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Smiles
6 years ago

Who was it? And ur they ok? Did they open high way again yet?

I hate Wednesdays
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I hate Wednesdays
6 years ago

This is a man, torn apart by an unfaithful lover. Sounds like his girl was dirty dancin’ with another man and now he’s looking for a way to escape the pain. What he doesn’t realize is that the only difference between tonight and tomorrow is, tonight he has the pain from a broken heart. Tomorrow he will no doubt have the pain from a broken heart and a broken leg!. That bridge couldn’t be more than 15-20 feet high. Death is possible, maybe, but the chances are very slim. We’ve been hearing that man scream “Why George, Why?!?!?!” For hours now. C’mon, George! Let’s go! Come down and clear this thing up so we can all get on with our drive!!!.

J
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J
6 years ago

Hope they are able to heal from what I assume are many life’s hardships that make them want the pain to go away for good. I expected insensitive comments since I know first hand how people in Humboldt react to those who are down or suicidal. It is no coincidence that they have the highest suicide rate year after year. Many places in America do not have access to good mental health care without suicide rates as high as Humboldt’s. It is the severe lack of compassion and constant self absorption that is more common in Humboldt than any place I have visited or lived. Prayers to a who are suffering in that county, I had to get out or I surely would have killed myself, now every day I wake up and I’m surrounded by kindness, I’ve never been treated like scum of the earth by an employee or waitress because I’m not a local. People follow the basic common curtosey things I grew accustom to from being raised in the south. Best part is I still live in beautiful northern California. I Love Mendo!!!!

S
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S
6 years ago
Reply to  J

Thank you, J. The comments make me sick, ‘but for the grace of G’d go I”. Any one of us could be that destitute enough to feel like we’ve had enough. I’ve lost someone dear to suicide, and I often wonder, “what could I have done, and why wasn’t I aware of his pain?”I always thought that this was such a caring group of people here in HumCo, just wanting some peace and privacy. What I’m actually seeing is hate. Sad.

Anon Forrest
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Anon Forrest
6 years ago
Reply to  J

I’ve heard this before and although I live in Mendo (50 years,) I make occasional trips up to Humboldt. There is indeed a marked difference between the over-lying social webs and their values, and how they are expressed.
Humboldt State once offered a class course on the social structures of the cannabis culture. I wonder what happened to that. When I inquired, the differences between the two counties (Humboldt and Mendocino) weren’t being considered, but I have often thought that therein lies a real reason to study “our” societies.

Food for thought
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Food for thought
6 years ago

I would be bummed out if I had a comment section that looked like this, Kym I say make all the commenters use their profile names. Alot of this verbal spew would be no more if people didn’t have anonymity to hide behind.

Anon Forrest
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Anon Forrest
6 years ago

Et tu, Food For Thought?

Guest,
Guest
Guest,
6 years ago

He must not of really want to die there is atleast 3 other bridges within half a mile that go all the way down to the river

Shawn Cherry
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Shawn Cherry
6 years ago

Keep hiding Food For Thought. I post under my name!

Guest,
Guest
Guest,
6 years ago
Reply to  Shawn Cherry

Haha right they talk shit under a sur name too!

Food for thought
Guest
Food for thought
6 years ago
Reply to  Guest,

When I start to make shitty comments in a comment section that is in regards to someone feeling desperate enough to want to jump off a bridge I’ll consider that. For now it was simply my thoughts that people wouldn’t be so cruel. Would you dissagree?. Or will your response solidify the reasoning that people would rather stay anonymous?

Newthinking
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Newthinking
6 years ago
Reply to  Shawn Cherry

Wait until a random stranger attacks you because he didn’t like your post. Maybe then you will realize the value of anonymity.

65squeeze
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65squeeze
6 years ago

Hope & Pray this person can be talked out of this and find the help he needs.
Desperate folks do desperate things to get rid of the emotional pain.
Too many folks everywhere today want to end their lives not knowing that with the right help they could live a better life.

shawnee
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shawnee
6 years ago

Use your name or quite posting …they have chatrooms for bs…

Guest,
Guest
Guest,
6 years ago
Reply to  shawnee

You mean quit?, if your gona call people out about using sur names you should at least do what you say, I know a lot of Shawnees, if everyone just used there first name it would be the same unless you have a unique name

Hick
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Hick
6 years ago

If people had somebody to talk about thier “stuff”, the county and state would probably save a lot of 💰. And the people would be saved a lot of embarrassment. A little listening and talking can go a long way. Just an 800 number. It’s Been a depressing winter for a lot of folks.

Guest,
Guest
Guest,
6 years ago
Reply to  Hick

Suicide help hotline 800-784-2433

Lyne
Guest
Lyne
6 years ago

Crisis Hotline if anyone needs it for themselves or loved ones 1-800-273-8255.