There was a case somewhere in the Northeast within the last year or so in which it was concluded that the victim -a college student- decided to use a railroad bridge as a shortcut on his way to a bar after a house party and fell into the river underneath. His body was not found for several months, IIRC.
I will try to find an article and a link and add, if I can. I remember being very, very surprised by all the people leaving comments on various SM and MSM sites saying that young people in the area did this all the time.
I'm not sure if Jesse was doing something similar since he lives in the opposite direction from where he was apparently heading. I also wonder if there was some sort of bet or dare involved, or maybe he thought whatever he was doing would make a cool Snap - somewhat in the same vein as those who fall to their deaths while taking a selfie.
I know I did some things I'm not exactly proud of when I was Jesse's age, and feel lucky to have come out alive. Sometimes we are our own worst enemy ....
ETA: Posted March 10,
2016, at 11:06 a.m.
"Friend of missing MMA student warns pedestrians to avoid Orono train bridge"
"A grieving friend of a missing Maine Maritime Academy student has issued a plea for people to stop walking on a railroad bridge that crosses the Stillwater River near where David Breunig was last seen on Feb. 26.
...
[The friend,] Gilligan, a third-year student at the University of Maine,
wrote in the post that he has crossed the bridge 100-plus times, mostly at night and others have done so as well.
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Breunig, 21, was at a party on Crosby Street the night he disappeared but
as it neared midnight he decided to head over to the Mill Street bars to meet up with friends, police said.
He left the party alone at around 11:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 26, and his phone last pinged a local cellphone tower at 12:05 a.m. Feb. 27, officials have said.
The shortest route from Crosby Street to Mill Street is by crossing the train bridge over the Stillwater River.
Breunig was last seen walking toward the train tracks.
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[The friend] ends the post by saying that
he and his friends have learned a hard lesson and he hopes to prevent future tragedies by asking people to take the proper route."
http://bangordailynews.com/2016/03/...rns-pedestrians-to-avoid-orono-train-trestle/
Posted April 27, 2016, at 10:34 a.m.
"State confirms ID, cause of death of MMA student found in river"
"AUGUSTA, Maine A Maine Maritime Academy student whose body was recovered Friday from the Penobscot River in Bangor died of hypothermia and drowning, according to investigators.
David Breunig, 21, who was last seen two months ago in Orono, apparently fell off a railroad bridge into fast moving and near freezing water.
...
"The Bangor Fire Department recovered the body near the Veterans Remembrance Bridge, more than nine miles downstream from the railroad bridge near where Breunig was last seen."
http://bangordailynews.com/2016/04/...of-mma-student-found-in-river/?ref=relatedBox
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