Talk:Steve Brodie (bridge jumper)

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To "pull a Brodie" was still common slang in the US, e.g., Southern California, into at least the 1960s.

Pull a Steve Brodie
I first heard this expression from my father back in the early 1960's in So. CA. Now, 40 years later, any fall or leap from an appreciable height I still refer to as a "Steve Brodie". Old habits die hard. - - Greenbomb101 15:22, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
 * I actually recall from the same time in SoCal that "a Brodie" was a maneuver performed on a bike. You built up a bit if speed, slammed on the rear brake, turned the handlebars hard over one way while putting your inside foot down. The result was a sharp skidding turn to a stop. Wschart (talk) 17:28, 17 April 2016 (UTC)

Brodie Did Jump (no dummy was involved)
"It was subsequently determined that Brodie had probably not actually jumped, but instead used a dummy he had hidden in the area." I must take this out. The late Brooklyn scholar David Shulman (who was quoted on this in the NY Times) was absolutely convinced that Brodie did jump. The "dummy" story was invented later. This must be removed -- it certainly wasn't "subsequently determined" by Shulman. Barry (talk) 01:28, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

OK, could we have a history of the controversy - claim and counter-claim? As it stands, there is just the mention of a possible hoax. Which is too much, if false and too little, if true. 65.89.68.24 (talk) 23:03, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

WTF? 135 Feet and only 4 people have survived???
The La Quebrada Cliff Divers dive 125 feet into salt water. The very idea of a human being killed from internal hemmoraging from a drop of 135 feet into water is ridiculous. Was the person suffering accute scurvy? Genetic predisposition to fragility, like Mr. Glass from Unbreakable?

The whole thing seems preposterous. There must be fences in the way preventing anyone from trying to jump off the bridge and dispel the myth. 24.162.243.177 (talk) 19:39, 31 August 2012 (UTC)

Exactly today, over precise.
"$200 bet, equal to $5,249.66 today." When was today? This will change every day. QuentinUK (talk) 09:28, 9 April 2015 (UTC)