On Jumping Off Of Bridges

Are we to assume that you can jump off of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge but not the George Washington Bridge?

First, a 19-year-old apparently survives a jump from the Verrazano:

A Brooklyn teen told cops he survived a leap off the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge last night.
Pavel Kononov, 19, was soaking wet when he flagged down an off-duty cop who was driving onto the Belt Parkway from the bridge at 7 p.m. Earlier, cops had responded to reports of a possible jumper, but nobody saw one.

At its highest point, the bridge is 237 feet above the water, but it’s not clear how far he fell.

He was taken to Lutheran Hospital in critical condition but was later upgraded to stable.

This comes on the heels of the death of a man on Monday after diving headfirst from the GWB:

A lover’s spat between two gay men driving over the George Washington Bridge ended in tragedy yesterday when the driver stopped the vehicle mid-span and dived headfirst into the Hudson River, police and witnesses said.

“It was terrible, just terrible — something awful to see,” said Gus Guerra, who was in his boat under the bridge and got to the victim first. “He was shaking a bit and moving in the water when I pulled him out. His face was pretty bad and blood was coming out of his ears.”

The jumper, 45, was pronounced dead a short time later.

The nightmarish drama began at 11:30 a.m., when the two men got into an argument as they headed toward New Jersey on the upper level.

Police said the driver pulled the car over by the bridge’s New York tower, climbed over the railing and took a 220-foot dive.

Guerra, a mechanic at a marina, said a cop told him the driver had flipped out during an argument with his lover.

“He landed head first. He looked pretty rough. There was no way he could have survived,” Guerra said.

Visual comparison: Verrazano-Narrows Bridge and the George Washington Bridge.