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2008-10-01 Britain

Crowd jeers suicidal jumper to his death

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Posted by Oztralian 2008-10-01 03:45|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Source = http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,24430462-401,00.html

Posted by Oztralian 2008-10-01 03:46|| 2008-10-01 03:46|| Front Page Top

#2 Link doesn't work.

Posted by Jolutch Mussolini7800 2008-10-01 03:58|| 2008-10-01 03:58|| Front Page Top

#3 Try this link. It's the source link Oztralian gives, but in clickable form.

Posted by trailing wife ">trailing wife 2008-10-01 06:02|| 2008-10-01 06:02|| Front Page Top

#4 Superintendent Andy Hough, of Derbyshire police, said he was disappointed and disturbed by the people heard encouraging Mr Dykes to jump.

"I find it a disturbing and shocking reflection on society when people feel inclined to do that," Supt Hough told the MailOnline.

"Negotiators were working with the man threatening to jump and it was their job to talk to him in the hope of changing his mind.

"We really need the public to work with us, not against us. It was a very disappointing situation."

It was far more than that, Superintendent.

Britain is lost. The West as a whole is, if not already lost, pretty damned close to it.

Posted by lotp 2008-10-01 06:49|| 2008-10-01 06:49|| Front Page Top

#5 Must not have been a football game that night. Needed something to bring out the primal thuggery and hooliganism.

Posted by Jack is Back!">Jack is Back! 2008-10-01 06:58|| 2008-10-01 06:58|| Front Page Top

#6 Another manifestation of the utter moral bankruptcy of our society. And Britain's problem is that it is not Puritanism or Methodism that is rushing in to fill this vacuum but Islam.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2008-10-01 07:21|| 2008-10-01 07:21|| Front Page Top

#7 Spain had the same problem a few years back. They found the answer, and it worked quite well, but it wasn't easy, and it took a long time.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2008-10-01 07:41|| 2008-10-01 07:41|| Front Page Top

#8 Whatever's wrong with Britain, I think the condition is terminal.

Posted by AutoBartender 2008-10-01 08:26|| 2008-10-01 08:26|| Front Page Top

#9 I'm sure we could find enough people here in the States to form a cheering squad for bankers and Wall Street brokers and executives.

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-10-01 08:52|| 2008-10-01 08:52|| Front Page Top

#10 there were several groups of youths who ran from behind the cordon and looked like they were taking pictures with their mobile phones
What do you expect when you raise them in a culture devoid of values? Sadly, the answer to this nihilism is ignored in England: the church.

Posted by Spot">Spot 2008-10-01 08:58|| 2008-10-01 08:58|| Front Page Top

#11 Spot, the church is run by Rowan the Druid.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2008-10-01 09:09|| 2008-10-01 09:09|| Front Page Top

#12 People who make spectacles out of their suicides and - worse - disrupt the lives of others in doing so don't deserve much sympathy. Ask any train driver how they feel about jumpers on the line, for instance.

Nevertheless, the shouting minority are still a bunch of a***holes.

Posted by Bulldog 2008-10-01 12:54|| 2008-10-01 12:54|| Front Page Top

#13 I remeber watch something similar to this in person. I was in Denver on the 16th St mall when a woman was threatening to jump off a parking garage. The crowd was cheering her on. Definately not what she expected. Cops got to her in time though.

Posted by Yosemite Sam 2008-10-01 13:52|| 2008-10-01 13:52|| Front Page Top

#14 very sad.

Posted by Betty 2008-10-01 18:40|| 2008-10-01 18:40|| Front Page Top

#15 Most of the time, suicides are looking for attention. Sometimes they really want to die, too, but in my admittedly limited experience the ones who really wanted to die just did it rather than drawing a crowd first.

She wasn't a jumper, but I ran a call one time where a women was on a pay phone with 911 threatening to shoot herself - something about a boyfriend problem. (Never got the complete story.) 2 cops were there trying to talk her out of the gun when she decides to put the gun to her left upper shoulder and pull the trigger. (I'm betting both cops had to change their drawers later. Considering the area, I'm surprised she didn't have an encouraging audience too. Probably the whole thing didn't take long enough to draw a crowd, and it was kinda cold to be outside besides.)

Why the left shoulder, you may ask? This is just a guess, of course, but she probably watched too many old movies and TV shows - the hero always gets shot through the left shoulder and it's always not serious and he always he goes right on doing his hero stuff, so getting shot in the left shoulder is obviously not only non-lethal but not even very painful, right?

Except back here in the real world, at a minimum it would puncture a lung and blow a big hole in your back. In her case, the .32 bullet deflected off her clavicle and bounced around inside her chest cavity somewhere. We got her to the hospital still alive, but she died on the operating table. And I think the most surprised person in the room was her.

While I feel sorry that anyone gets to the point where they think they want to die, it also makes me angry. It's a permanent solution to a temporary problem, and if they do succeed, it's their final act of control over those left behind.

Pfui.

And f*ck those assholes who cheered him on. >:-(

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