Re “The SDPD’s freeway fiasco” (Dec. 12): It seems to me that the proper response to someone threatening to jump onto a freeway should be to:1) Get the cushion into position.2) Tell the potential jumper to give up or be tranquilized.3) Welcome him/her back or tranquilize him/her and then pick the individual up or catch the individual with the cushion.4) Problem solved within five minutes after the cushion is in position.
— Matt Pohl, Bonita
After the recent, inexcusable delay caused by one individual threatening to jump onto Interstate 5, may I offer a simple solution? Call the zoo or animal control. Ask to have someone sent to the scene with a rifle and a tranquilizer dart.
This simple, safe solution would allow law enforcement to quickly and safely remove the individual from the bridge, minimizing the freeway disruption.
— E. J. Anderson, Point Loma