July 23, 2021 • 8 mins
Louisiana Man Rescued After Viral Stunt Jumping Off Bridge
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Donkey other day right there, practice club bitches. You can
call me the dunkie of the day, but like I
mean no harm yeesh. Donkey of today for Thursday, July
fIF goes to a young twenty six year old man
from Louisiana named Jimmy Ivan Jennings. Now that's the reason
that I encourage people to invest in their mental health. Okay,
the reason I encourage them to invest in their mental
(00:22):
wealth because you know, mental health issues, mental illness impacts
every area of our lives, all right. There. Affect our thinking,
our feelings, are mood, our behavior. It could be depression, anxiety,
by polar schizophrenia, mental health disorders. Mental illnesses are real. Okay.
I want us to focus on mental health the way
we focus on physical health, because mental illness affects a
person's ability to function over a long period of time.
(00:45):
And when you're not mentally healthy, trust me, it will
eventually show up. Okay, we all must find some healing
because if we don't deal with our trauma, our trauma
will deal with us. You can't run from yourself, people,
It will show up. It'll show up in our emotional, psychological,
and social well being. It affect how we think, how
we feel, how we act, how we deal with other people,
how we show up in social settings, how we make decisions,
(01:06):
how it might catch up with us in traffic, And
if you ask me, that's exactly what happened to Jimmy
Ivan Jennings. Let's go to w b o Z ABC
two for the report police shocking video Friday standstill traffic
giving this man the ill advised idea to jump from
the Basin Bridge into the Chaffelaya River below. I ten
(01:26):
West was closed four hours Friday afternoon after a ten
vehicle pile up, and it was while sitting in traffic
he had the idea to jump and jumped off the
bridge and when I hit the water, shoulder went up
and I kind of hurt my shoulder, sorry swimming, And
they couldn't get back to the bank because the current
was too way too strong, the jump setting off an
(01:48):
hour's long search wildlife and fisheries agents along with the St.
Martin Parash Sheriff's Office involved deputies saying the exhaustive and
extensive search should never have been necessary as he should
have never jumped. I saved the water for probably about
I had a watch on other probably about two and
a half three hours. I thought I was gonna die,
but God saved me and he uh got back. Finally,
(02:11):
all the waters went still and I went back. I
was able to get back on the shore. The St.
Martin pea of Sheriff's off the side of Jimmy Jennings
with criminal mischief and criminal trespassing. Jimmy Jennings said he
jumped off a bridge because he was bored sitting in traffic. Okay,
let's discuss Remember when your parents used to tell you
(02:32):
if all your friends jumped off a bridge, would you
do it too? I would always think to myself, why
would my friends be jumping off a bridge? And that's
the trick question, because if all my friends are jumping
off the bridge, maybe I should jump too, because it
might be danger on the bridge. Like there was a
lot of context to that question that's missing. But if
you ever wanted, like me, who are these friends that
are just randomly jumping off bridges? I guess you look
no further than Jimmy Jennings. But what I would say
(02:54):
to Jimmy is you really can't run from yourself. Okay,
whatever you're dealing with will eventually catch up. What's that feeling?
The need to be busy all the time is a
trauma response and fear based distraction from what we would
be forced ta acknowledge and feel if we slow down
that well, that's what my energy tells me. Happened in
this Jimmy you know Jennings situation. It wasn't the traffic
(03:14):
that causing to jump per se. It was the fact
that he was forced to slow down. He was forced
to slow down, and that stillness got him to thinking
about whatever it was he was running from. Okay, he
was forced in that moment to mentally and emotionally deal
with whatever he was dealing with, and he couldn't handle it.
Board and traffic, boarding traffic. When I'm bored in traffic
and make a phone call, I listen to a podcast
(03:36):
or an audible book. I talked to myself. It's all
types of things I do when I'm board in traffic.
But neever have I ever thought to myself, i'm board
in traffic, I'm gonna go jump off a bridge. Okay,
if you jump off a bridge and to alligator infested waters,
it's not because you're boarding traffic. It's because you're board
with life. Okay, Now, Jimmy Jennings said something very interesting,
and I believe it will help him and others in
(03:57):
the future and regards to how they deal with themselves,
because man, we are all too hard on ourselves. Okay.
This is what scares me about the social media era
because it makes already bad situation worse. What is that
bad situation? But that bad situation is how we feel
about ourselves. There's gonna be certain times in our lives
that we aren't happy with who we are for various reasons.
(04:17):
And social media creates this unrealistic bar perfection that nobody
can reach in real life, but virtually they act like it.
Everybody's perfect online because it's my monk's corner brother, Stephen Fredick,
says pastor Stephen Ferdick. All they showing us is their
highlight real Okay, we don't ever see the process, the
mistakes that setbacks, just the glory, and that can make
negative thoughts about yourself worse. So when I read in
(04:40):
the New York Daily News that Jimmy said, I asked
God for forgiveness. I forgave everyone in my life when
I was in that water man, that's important Okay, forgiving yourself.
Forgiving uss is important. Forgiving yourself, this is important as
forgiving us. As guilt is toxic, causes you to relieve,
relive a mistake over and over. Okay, love yourself, forgive yourself. Bro, Jimmy,
(05:04):
you're twenty six years old. Sure you can tell people
you jumped off a bridge because you was bored in traffic,
but we all know what's really going on. No, you
jumped off the bridge because you got issues like the
rest of us, all right. The difference is some of
us are doing the work to make sure we don't
jump off bridges, all right. I didn't have those tools
and resources at twenty six years old either, So I'm
not judging. I'm just giving you some game for any
and and anybody else who is in a situation where
(05:26):
they have to be still and they are forced to
deal with themselves and deal with whatever they are trying
not to deal with. Okay, relax, don't be so hard
on yourself. You are living in learning forgive yourself and
grow from the experience the end. But in the meantime, Jimmy,
we have to give you the credit you deserve for
being stupid, because you didn't jump off a bridge because
you were bored sitting in traffic. Please bless Jimmy Jennings
(05:49):
with the sweet sounds of hammatones. You donkey, oh the day? Yeah, dog,
oh the day. Now, would you like to play a game? Sure,
(06:13):
let's play a game of guess what races. Jimmy Jennings
Louisiana said he was born in traffic, so he decided
to jump off a bridge and almost became breakfast for
some gators. Guess what, Rice d Jimmy Jenkins, don't google,
(06:33):
I'm not googling Jimmy Jenkins Jennings. See look, look at you?
Is Jennings. Jimmy Jennings Denning is white? Do you think
he's white? Why do you think he's white? I don't
think black people can jump off a bridge and mess
with some gators. I just don't think that they do
other type of things maybe, but board in traffic. I
(06:54):
don't think because we're born in traffic. Yeah, I don't. Yeah,
angela ye. Jimmy Jennings Louisiana said he was bored in traffic,
so he decided to jump off a bridge and almost
became breakfast with some gators. Gas what right, I'm gonna
say that he's white. Also, why do you think that's?
Why do you think he's what? Because if I'm bored
(07:16):
in traffic, all I'm gonna do is talk on the phone,
maybe blasts some music something like that. Cursed everybody get
road raged. But I'm not gonna do all that. The
black people scared of heigs too. I'm scared of heights.
I ain't jumping. Don't know Damn Bridge well, DJ and
de Angelie. I would say that you both farr Rod,
Jimmy Jennings is white or as the Gators said when
(07:37):
they almost got a taste, he's called Cajun. Okay, called
Cajun grilled white meat with a Mannai's bro That was
Jimmy Jennings. Now, I'm not gonna lie. I was leaning
towards black when I thought his last name was Jenkins.
When you when you're correcting me and lame Jenkins, I said,
you know what, then I got a chance. Is a
comm enslave name. Okay, just it's Jenkins. I was like black,
(08:01):
but you told me Jenny. I get it all right, Donkey.
Today is brought to you by the law office of
Michael s lamm and Saw don't be a donkey. Dive
pound to fifty on your cell and say the bull.
If you've been hurting a construction accident, that's pound two
five old from your cell and say the bull.
Donkey other day right there, practice club bitches. You can
call me the dunkie of the day, but like I
mean no harm yeesh. Donkey of today for Thursday, July
fIF goes to a young twenty six year old man
from Louisiana named Jimmy Ivan Jennings. Now that's the reason
that I encourage people to invest in their mental health. Okay,
the reason I encourage them to invest in their mental
(00:22):
wealth because you know, mental health issues, mental illness impacts
every area of our lives, all right. There. Affect our thinking,
our feelings, are mood, our behavior. It could be depression, anxiety,
by polar schizophrenia, mental health disorders. Mental illnesses are real. Okay.
I want us to focus on mental health the way
we focus on physical health, because mental illness affects a
person's ability to function over a long period of time.
(00:45):
And when you're not mentally healthy, trust me, it will
eventually show up. Okay, we all must find some healing
because if we don't deal with our trauma, our trauma
will deal with us. You can't run from yourself, people,
It will show up. It'll show up in our emotional, psychological,
and social well being. It affect how we think, how
we feel, how we act, how we deal with other people,
how we show up in social settings, how we make decisions,
(01:06):
how it might catch up with us in traffic, And
if you ask me, that's exactly what happened to Jimmy
Ivan Jennings. Let's go to w b o Z ABC
two for the report police shocking video Friday standstill traffic
giving this man the ill advised idea to jump from
the Basin Bridge into the Chaffelaya River below. I ten
(01:26):
West was closed four hours Friday afternoon after a ten
vehicle pile up, and it was while sitting in traffic
he had the idea to jump and jumped off the
bridge and when I hit the water, shoulder went up
and I kind of hurt my shoulder, sorry swimming, And
they couldn't get back to the bank because the current
was too way too strong, the jump setting off an
(01:48):
hour's long search wildlife and fisheries agents along with the St.
Martin Parash Sheriff's Office involved deputies saying the exhaustive and
extensive search should never have been necessary as he should
have never jumped. I saved the water for probably about
I had a watch on other probably about two and
a half three hours. I thought I was gonna die,
but God saved me and he uh got back. Finally,
(02:11):
all the waters went still and I went back. I
was able to get back on the shore. The St.
Martin pea of Sheriff's off the side of Jimmy Jennings
with criminal mischief and criminal trespassing. Jimmy Jennings said he
jumped off a bridge because he was bored sitting in traffic. Okay,
let's discuss Remember when your parents used to tell you
(02:32):
if all your friends jumped off a bridge, would you
do it too? I would always think to myself, why
would my friends be jumping off a bridge? And that's
the trick question, because if all my friends are jumping
off the bridge, maybe I should jump too, because it
might be danger on the bridge. Like there was a
lot of context to that question that's missing. But if
you ever wanted, like me, who are these friends that
are just randomly jumping off bridges? I guess you look
no further than Jimmy Jennings. But what I would say
(02:54):
to Jimmy is you really can't run from yourself. Okay,
whatever you're dealing with will eventually catch up. What's that feeling?
The need to be busy all the time is a
trauma response and fear based distraction from what we would
be forced ta acknowledge and feel if we slow down
that well, that's what my energy tells me. Happened in
this Jimmy you know Jennings situation. It wasn't the traffic
(03:14):
that causing to jump per se. It was the fact
that he was forced to slow down. He was forced
to slow down, and that stillness got him to thinking
about whatever it was he was running from. Okay, he
was forced in that moment to mentally and emotionally deal
with whatever he was dealing with, and he couldn't handle it.
Board and traffic, boarding traffic. When I'm bored in traffic
and make a phone call, I listen to a podcast
(03:36):
or an audible book. I talked to myself. It's all
types of things I do when I'm board in traffic.
But neever have I ever thought to myself, i'm board
in traffic, I'm gonna go jump off a bridge. Okay,
if you jump off a bridge and to alligator infested waters,
it's not because you're boarding traffic. It's because you're board
with life. Okay, Now, Jimmy Jennings said something very interesting,
and I believe it will help him and others in
(03:57):
the future and regards to how they deal with themselves,
because man, we are all too hard on ourselves. Okay.
This is what scares me about the social media era
because it makes already bad situation worse. What is that
bad situation? But that bad situation is how we feel
about ourselves. There's gonna be certain times in our lives
that we aren't happy with who we are for various reasons.
(04:17):
And social media creates this unrealistic bar perfection that nobody
can reach in real life, but virtually they act like it.
Everybody's perfect online because it's my monk's corner brother, Stephen Fredick,
says pastor Stephen Ferdick. All they showing us is their
highlight real Okay, we don't ever see the process, the
mistakes that setbacks, just the glory, and that can make
negative thoughts about yourself worse. So when I read in
(04:40):
the New York Daily News that Jimmy said, I asked
God for forgiveness. I forgave everyone in my life when
I was in that water man, that's important Okay, forgiving yourself.
Forgiving uss is important. Forgiving yourself, this is important as
forgiving us. As guilt is toxic, causes you to relieve,
relive a mistake over and over. Okay, love yourself, forgive yourself. Bro, Jimmy,
(05:04):
you're twenty six years old. Sure you can tell people
you jumped off a bridge because you was bored in traffic,
but we all know what's really going on. No, you
jumped off the bridge because you got issues like the
rest of us, all right. The difference is some of
us are doing the work to make sure we don't
jump off bridges, all right. I didn't have those tools
and resources at twenty six years old either, So I'm
not judging. I'm just giving you some game for any
and and anybody else who is in a situation where
(05:26):
they have to be still and they are forced to
deal with themselves and deal with whatever they are trying
not to deal with. Okay, relax, don't be so hard
on yourself. You are living in learning forgive yourself and
grow from the experience the end. But in the meantime, Jimmy,
we have to give you the credit you deserve for
being stupid, because you didn't jump off a bridge because
you were bored sitting in traffic. Please bless Jimmy Jennings
(05:49):
with the sweet sounds of hammatones. You donkey, oh the day? Yeah, dog,
oh the day. Now, would you like to play a game? Sure,
(06:13):
let's play a game of guess what races. Jimmy Jennings
Louisiana said he was born in traffic, so he decided
to jump off a bridge and almost became breakfast for
some gators. Guess what, Rice d Jimmy Jenkins, don't google,
(06:33):
I'm not googling Jimmy Jenkins Jennings. See look, look at you?
Is Jennings. Jimmy Jennings Denning is white? Do you think
he's white? Why do you think he's white? I don't
think black people can jump off a bridge and mess
with some gators. I just don't think that they do
other type of things maybe, but board in traffic. I
(06:54):
don't think because we're born in traffic. Yeah, I don't. Yeah,
angela ye. Jimmy Jennings Louisiana said he was bored in traffic,
so he decided to jump off a bridge and almost
became breakfast with some gators. Gas what right, I'm gonna
say that he's white. Also, why do you think that's?
Why do you think he's what? Because if I'm bored
(07:16):
in traffic, all I'm gonna do is talk on the phone,
maybe blasts some music something like that. Cursed everybody get
road raged. But I'm not gonna do all that. The
black people scared of heigs too. I'm scared of heights.
I ain't jumping. Don't know Damn Bridge well, DJ and
de Angelie. I would say that you both farr Rod,
Jimmy Jennings is white or as the Gators said when
(07:37):
they almost got a taste, he's called Cajun. Okay, called
Cajun grilled white meat with a Mannai's bro That was
Jimmy Jennings. Now, I'm not gonna lie. I was leaning
towards black when I thought his last name was Jenkins.
When you when you're correcting me and lame Jenkins, I said,
you know what, then I got a chance. Is a
comm enslave name. Okay, just it's Jenkins. I was like black,
(08:01):
but you told me Jenny. I get it all right, Donkey.
Today is brought to you by the law office of
Michael s lamm and Saw don't be a donkey. Dive
pound to fifty on your cell and say the bull.
If you've been hurting a construction accident, that's pound two
five old from your cell and say the bull.
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