3 helicopters, 3 boats, 1 dipshit

I caught the tail end of a rescue mission in the Hudson River yesterday while taking my daily walk after work. Some asshole had jumped into the river, got caught in the current, and began yelling for help. To make matters worse, he refused to grab hold of the life preservers thrown to him from the NYC Police boat that showed up to fish him out (the Jersey City and Hoboken fire departments had also dispatched boats). In order to get him out from under the Frank Sinatra Park pier where he had taken refuge, the police had to lower a raft into the water to go in after him. By this time three helicopters were hovering overhead and about a hundred spectators, including myself, were watching the proceedings over the railing of the pier. A guy next to me, who had been there earlier, informed me that the same guy had pulled an identical stunt a few weeks ago. Observing all the effort being put into the rescue, this really pissed me off. When they finally dragged his ass out from under the pier and onto the boat and the idiot began to wave to the crowd he had attracted (most likely the reason he did it in the first place), I tried to get a chant going: "Throw him back! Throw him back! Throw him back!" I was happy to see that The Jersey Journal didn't even mention the incident this morning, depriving this guy of the attention he so desperately craved.