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noodles · **Posted:** Wed May 27, 2009 2:57 am

I like her boots, but they must take ages to tie up.

Cú Chulainn · **Posted:** Wed May 27, 2009 10:36 am

Goat · **Posted:** Wed May 27, 2009 11:46 am

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8061979.stm

Goat · **Posted:** Wed May 27, 2009 11:55 am

Fucking hell, China:

Quote:

Man pushes would-be suicide off bridge

BEIJING (Reuters) – A Chinese man was pushed off a bridge by an angry passer-by after his threat to commit suicide held up traffic for five hours, Chinese media reported on Saturday.

Retired soldier Lian Jiansheng, 66, broke through a police cordon and reached out to shake the hand of would-be jumper Chen Fuchao before shoving him off the bridge.

"I pushed him off because jumpers like Chen are very selfish. Their action violates a lot of public interests," Lai was quoted as saying by the China Daily newspaper.

"They do not really dare to kill themselves. Instead, they just want to raise the relevant government authorities' attention to their appeals."

Chen, 2 million yuan ($293,200) in debt because of a failed building project, fell 8 metres (yards) onto a partially inflated emergency air cushion and was hospitalized with wrist and back injuries. Lai was detained by police.

That beats the people we had here yelling 'jump!' :blink:

Cú Chulainn · **Posted:** Wed May 27, 2009 12:39 pm

I saw the video of it, it was awesome. The suicidee landed on the big mattress thingy the police had set up, and the pusher got off with a warning.

Mintrude · **Posted:** Wed May 27, 2009 3:16 pm

This is what happens when you put the collective before the individual. I'll leave you to argue amongst yourselves whether that's a good thing or not.

Goat · **Posted:** Wed May 27, 2009 3:19 pm

Mintrude wrote:

This is what happens when you put the collective before the individual or not. I'll leave you to argue amongst yourselves whether that's a good thing or not.

Any culture that thinks it's ok to personally push a suicide must have something wrong with it. Although it would be easier for everyone if the guy had just dug a grave and then had himself buried in it, rather than doing something as grandiose and silly as jumping off a bridge. Clearly the poor guy needed attention, not some angry OAP shoving him.

Mintrude · **Posted:** Wed May 27, 2009 3:22 pm

Oh, ignore the first "or not" in there. This is what happens when you re-write posts without paying full attention. Fixed now.

Mintrude · **Posted:** Wed May 27, 2009 3:30 pm

Reading reactions to the story, it's surprising how many people think Ledger Mcpushy was right to do what he did. Put it down to some kind of faux-misanthropic posturing I suppose.

rio · **Posted:** Wed May 27, 2009 4:56 pm

Mintrude wrote:

This is what happens when you put the collective before the individual. I'll leave you to argue amongst yourselves whether that's a good thing or not.

Surely it's a sign of ultra-individualistic behaviour, i.e. me getting somewhere on time is more important than someone else's life.

Mintrude · **Posted:** Wed May 27, 2009 5:21 pm

rio wrote:

Mintrude wrote:

This is what happens when you put the collective before the individual. I'll leave you to argue amongst yourselves whether that's a good thing or not.

Surely it's a sign of ultra-individualistic behaviour, i.e. me getting somewhere on time is more important than someone else's life.

The phrase "Their action violates a lot of public interests" sounds like the work of a man believing he is acting in the interests of the public a a whole, no?

rio · **Posted:** Wed May 27, 2009 5:28 pm

Mintrude wrote:

rio wrote:

Mintrude wrote:

This is what happens when you put the collective before the individual. I'll leave you to argue amongst yourselves whether that's a good thing or not.

Surely it's a sign of ultra-individualistic behaviour, i.e. me getting somewhere on time is more important than someone else's life.

The phrase "Their action violates a lot of public interests" sounds like the work of a man believing he is acting in the interests of the public a a whole, no?

Not really, sounds like self-justification to me.

Perhaps he rationalised it that way, but in order to act like that he would have to be pretty pissed off. And people don't get pissed off "in the public interest", they get pissed off because they personally are being inconvenienced.

Cú Chulainn · **Posted:** Wed May 27, 2009 5:30 pm

The guy climbed all the way up on this high-ass bridge piece at the risk of his own life to talk to the guy and then throw him off the bridge, where he landed directly in the big cushion thing the police had set up, I saw the footage.

http://www.corriere.it/esteri/09_maggio ... aabc.shtml

Really not that bad.

stevelovesmoonspell · **Posted:** Wed May 27, 2009 6:47 pm

MetalStorm · **Posted:** Wed May 27, 2009 7:35 pm

Hey the guy had to get home to his wife for a nooner ok so I don't blame him for pushing him off gotta get that wifey tang :lol:

Eternal Idol · **Posted:** Wed May 27, 2009 8:39 pm

I don't agree with pushing him off of the bridge, but he is right about the not being serious about it and just wanting attention thing. Since he was up there for 5 hours he clearly had no real intention to do it, he just wanted a spectacle. Usually if someone really wants to end their life, they just climb up the bridge and get on with it. Morbid I know, but true.

DevotedWalnut · **Posted:** Wed May 27, 2009 8:49 pm

Why did the new reviewers thread get locked?

Mintrude · **Posted:** Wed May 27, 2009 9:12 pm

DevotedWalnut wrote:

Why did the new reviewers thread get locked?

Wondering the same thing myself, actually.

Seinfeld26 · **Posted:** Wed May 27, 2009 10:52 pm

Mintrude wrote:

DevotedWalnut wrote:

Why did the new reviewers thread get locked?

Wondering the same thing myself, actually.

Likewise.

Legacy Of The Night · **Posted:** Wed May 27, 2009 11:40 pm

Back. DC was pretty cool. Looked at a lot of the museums and stuff. I also had a buffalo burger for the first time. Buffalo meat is excellent.

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