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zahavasdad,
People jump off the GW Bridge all the time, Getting stuck in traffic right before traffic also happens all the time on Fridays. And I also belive many people in the same circumstance would do the same thing
I actually don’t think that either story (missing kid “Mincha Service” at a football game and the GW Bridge Shabbos divers) is true, although for the sake of the discussion here it doesn’t really matter, since both stories reflect basic themes that are true. They may well have been based on true stories with details that got changed or exaggerated over time with the retelling.
1. Reporting a missing kid would result in a search and police response, not just a loudspeaker announcement (would a little kid be able to find his way to “Section 301, left side”?), and subsequently big trouble for the guy who reported what turned out to be a fabrication. If such a thing were actually done, it would have been a request to locate an adult who got separated from his party.
2. When you originally presented the story, you said the guy was driving into Manhattan from Teaneck, but the version in the link you provided had the guy driving out of the City to the Catskills.
3. Given a stopped car with flashers on, I would think the most likely conclusion would be that the car was abandoned due to malfunction. Would police really send divers into the cold river without a witness to the jump, a suicide note, or any other indication? How would they even know where in the river to search?
4. Would the police really be instantly angry when someone turned out not to be dead?