While I was getting my hair cut late this afternoon -- my cane provided a mere few minutes of conversation -- the red-shoed customer in the seat next to mine was abuzz with the story that a freshman at the local high school had jumped off the Bailey Avenue bridge into the Winooski.
"At least he didn't jump at high water" opined the barber in the third chair.
Oh, but he did. It was the day after the last big thunderstorm, the customer averred. With his friends making a video to send to MTV's Jackass, of course. And he was arrested, of course.
Odd that it didn't make the Times Argus, commented the barber. Maybe it was because he was a juvenile. Maybe it was because his family was well-known or rich enough to keep the story quiet.
"I'd hate to be the reporter assigned to write that story," I put in: "Stupid Kid Jumps in River for No Good Reason."
Conversation switched mostly to a recent episode of some home-redecoration show that was filmed in Burlington, but not before my haircutter had a chance to add darkly, "I bet it had something to do with drugs." As if a 14-year-old with a bunch of friends needed drugs to do something stupid like that.
Posted by wallich at October 28, 2003 08:59 PM