When the lights go down on the City

The Golden Gate Bridge's overseers are mighty pissed that someone lied his way into filming the bridge around the clock to capture suicides on film. Seems he owned up to his strategy when he requested interviews with Bridge workers and executives. At least one Bridge employee thought it was obvious what he was up to all along.

Those upset about the Bridge being a "magnet for suicides" surely weren't happy with Tad Friend's piece about this awhile back. (Friend writes that "[a]lmost everyone in the Bay Area knows someone who has jumped," which isn't true at all. I do know one guy who's threatened out loud to jump from the GGB many times, however. He never mentioned the Bay Bridge.)

The Chron article just barely touches on the notion that the filmmaker represented a security risk. I wonder how this fellow could have been pointing things at the middle of the Bridge, virtually unsupervised around the clock, in an era when National Guardsmen have sat in watch at both ends of the span 24 hours a day.

That said, it looks like it might be a morbidly fascinating film.