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While eating at the Cheesecake Factory @ the top of Macy's in Union Square, we witnessed the horror as a poor gull couldn't come to terms with it's failed life and decided to end it all and jump.

I hope he's in a better place now.

R.I.P.

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  • dunno 2 years ago
    No!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  • eric cwiertny 2 years ago
    I nearly threw up my gourmet sandwich at the sight!
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  • Pam Newman 2 years ago
    Goodbye world!!!
  • eric cwiertny 2 years ago
    So young...such a waste...
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  • Scruff_E_Guy plus 2 years ago
    Hey, he didn't leave a note
  • eric cwiertny 2 years ago
    Just a last fleeting look at me before he jumped...that said it all.
  • Georgie Hammerton 2 years ago
    don't blame yourself eric.. lol
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  • aaroneous 2 years ago
    Ha Ha, that's great! Way to have your camera at the ready.
  • eric cwiertny 2 years ago
    it was so weird...just shooting the view when he came up, gave a look and jumped.
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  • loonachic plus 2 years ago
    devastating.
  • eric cwiertny 2 years ago
    so true...
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  • Blake Whitman staff 2 years ago
    good riddance.
  • eric cwiertny 2 years ago
    oh, c'mon blake...seagulls are our little white scavenger friends....
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  • Chad Pugh 2 years ago
    i can see him with Angel wings now
  • eric cwiertny 2 years ago
    and a little gold halo over that tiny head...
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  • Soxiam staff 2 years ago
    great great title.
  • eric cwiertny 2 years ago
    sox, it simply states the truth... :-)
  • Neale Bryan 2 years ago
    I was thinking it would make a great name for a band. Like a cross between Flock of Seagulls and The Suicide Machines. I wonder what that would sound like?
  • eric cwiertny 2 years ago
    Now that would be an odd mix!
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  • Perez 2 years ago
    wow
  • eric cwiertny 2 years ago
    yeah, I know...
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  • LCF 2 years ago
    damn marketing, i was eyeing the iPod billboard in the background rather than the bird!
  • eric cwiertny 2 years ago
    See...nobody noticed the gull...hence the complex!
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  • JD 2 years ago
    Hahahah.
  • eric cwiertny 2 years ago
    :-)
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  • SectionJake 2 years ago
    poor guy.
  • eric cwiertny 2 years ago
    I guess I could have fed him something...
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  • charliesteadman plus 2 years ago
    The winged sea rat wouldn't have jumped if you would have cared enough to say hello.
  • eric cwiertny 2 years ago
    sure charlie...blame it on the media. ;-)
  • ojo 2 years ago
    Lol
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  • Haddon Kime 2 years ago
    Goodbye Cruel World!!! Maybe it was the reincarnation of a stock broker... Thanks for the comments! -H
  • eric cwiertny 2 years ago
    See any gulls take the jump on your Hawaii trip?
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  • cecile marie 2 years ago
    wow. that looks like a pretty graphic design in motion.
  • eric cwiertny 2 years ago
    thanks, but, alas, it's just a bird jumping off a building.

    :-)
  • cecile marie 2 years ago
    oh yeah... i was distracted by the buildings in the back. and the billboards.
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  • Remyyy plus 2 years ago
    Big fan of that one ! The picture is pur and the reflect on the window, yes ! And funny !
  • eric cwiertny 2 years ago
    Coming from you Remi... thanks, that means a lot!
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  • Andrea Allen staff 2 years ago
    He was obviously mentally ill.
  • eric cwiertny 2 years ago
    Birds are severely misunderstood...

    :-)
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  • PEIKA plus 2 years ago
    maybe its a stunt bird?
  • eric cwiertny 2 years ago
    Professional stunt bird on a closed ledge. do not attempt.
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  • annatruus 2 years ago
    i've been there!
    (union square, sf -- not jumping to my death)
  • eric cwiertny 2 years ago
    That's cool...
    good to hear you weren't there for jumping.

    it's such a great section of the town...so much to do, see and eat there...
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  • Adam Holwerda 2 years ago
    Where was denzel?!?! dear god where was denzel.
  • PURENINE 2 years ago
    hahahah
  • eric cwiertny 2 years ago
    Hey Adam, what movie are you referring to, I don't think I've seen one where he talks people down--or in this case, birds.

    Let me know, I'll check it out. Or maybe I've seen it and I'm just drawin' a blank.

    Thx,

    e.
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  • Richard 2 years ago
    So sad. Such a waste. I only it had been to see a councilor and thought things through a bit. It may have decided that its life really WAS worth living. So tragic when things like this happen. Really upsets you for the rest of the day.
  • eric cwiertny 2 years ago
    It know for a fact it wanted help, but due to the lack of fingers and an opposable thumb it couldn't hold a phone receiver or dial the number of the local seagull helpline.
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  • Junior 2 years ago
    i would like to see a re-edit with a black and white look with sad music and slow motion.

    silly bird.
  • eric cwiertny 2 years ago
    I'll work on it this weekend--sounds like fun.

    thx,

    e.
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  • Pheasant Plucker plus 2 years ago
    His soul will soar forever now
  • eric cwiertny 2 years ago
    Love lifts him up where he belongs, now...
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  • Malty 2 years ago
    tragic
  • eric cwiertny 2 years ago
    simply tragic... however on a more positive note...he is survived by thousands of his relatives currently flying around san francisco.
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  • G 2 years ago
    good. 1 less to worry about when walking to work.
  • eric cwiertny 2 years ago
    George, good luck with the other 999,999 seagulls up there... :-)
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  • Baywhale 2 years ago
    Horrific!
  • eric cwiertny 2 years ago
    Yes, yes it really was. :-)
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  • Mark Jensen plus 2 years ago
    don't see that every day :) made me laugh!
  • eric cwiertny 2 years ago
    Cool. Glad you liked it. I didn't realize how funny t looked until I got home from that trip. I love strange moments like this.
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  • Bill plus 2 years ago
    Perhaps it was instructed to end it all by some suicidal cult. Those birds are so gullible.
  • eric cwiertny 2 years ago
    Quite possibly...seagulls are so easily manipulated...so sad.
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  • Kai Schreiber 2 years ago
    Birds can fly? Are you going to tell me my fish have some superpower, too?
  • eric cwiertny 2 years ago
    Don't know if you know this... but they can actually BREATHE UNDERWATER!?!
  • Scruff_E_Guy plus 2 years ago
    OMG...what's next....maybe chameleons will start changing colors like..well...oh shoot...what are those things called again?
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  • Yehonatan Richter 2 years ago
    this one is great
  • eric cwiertny 2 years ago
    Thanks! Just a little bizarre moment to share with my Vimeo friends
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  • MooJooBee 2 years ago
    The video picture... so divine!
  • eric cwiertny 2 years ago
    Cool...thanks!
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  • shaunmarsh78 3 months ago
    That's funny. Please visit the website uploaded.tv where u can upload videos, music, n photos and even upload ur own videos to real TV! Be popular worldwide!!
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