SF BAY AREA TEEN LEAPS FROM GG BRIDGE AS PRANK, LIVES

Every generation of high school students, it seems, has one knuckleheaded classmate whose judgment is so seriously impaired that their antics are destined for urban legend, and this generation is apparently no exception.

A Windsor (Sonoma County) high school took a number of students on a fieldtrip to the Golden Gate Bridge when a 17 year old junior leapt from the bridge in front of his horrified classmates after bragging about his bridge jumping prowess, then lived to tell the tale after a 55 year old surfer pulled the teen out of the water with a stern lecture, the San Francisco Chronicle reports.

A Windsor Unified School District press release said the teen suffered no severe injuries beyond bruising and tenderness. Hospital officials said they cannot release specific information

Seven people have died in GG Bridge leaps this year, Golden Gate Bridge District officials estimated for the Chronicle. Last year, the count was 32.

"He did it to try to look cool," said one classmate, who did not want to be identified. "He said he'd jumped off bridges before." Another student who said he was on the scene tweeted that students tried to stop the boy before he leaped.

Read more: Windsor teen survives Golden Gate Bridge jump (SF Chronicle)