Monday, June 23, 2014

Man Takes Long Walk Off Short Boston Pier

Tried to do a high dive....

"Man injured after diving off Carson Beach pier" by Dan Adams | Globe Correspondent   June 16, 2014

An 18-year-old man ignored the warnings of bystanders Sunday and jumped from a South Boston pier, receiving a bloody head wound in the shallow waters below, witnesses and emergency crews said.

Aubrey Stowers, a 20-year-old visiting from South Carolina, said she was on the phone when she noticed a man preparing to jump off the end of a nearby fishing pier. It was about 6 p.m., and she was standing in the “Mother’s Rest” rotunda on Carson Beach.

A group of people told the man not to jump because it was low tide, she said.

“But [the man’s] friend told them, ‘he does this all the time. He knows what he’s doing. Don’t tell him what to do,’ ” Stowers said....

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