Beijing: Elder man pushes Suicide-threatener off a bridge

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Hilarious story actually...

Passer-By Pushes Man Contemplating Suicide Off Bridge in China
Saturday, May 23, 2009


Print ShareThisBEIJING — Chen Fuchao, a man heavily in debt, had been contemplating suicide on a bridge in southern China for hours when a passer-by came up, shook his hand — and pushed him off the ledge.

Chen fell 26 feet onto a partially inflated emergency air cushion laid out by authorities and survived, suffering spine and elbow injuries, the official Xinhua News Agency said Saturday.

The passer-by, 66-year-old Lai Jiansheng, had been fed up with what he called Chen's "selfish activity," Xinhua said. Traffic around the Haizhu bridge in the city of Guangzhou had been backed up for five hours and police had cordoned off the area.

"I pushed him off because jumpers like Chen are very selfish. Their action violates a lot of public interest," Lai was quoted as saying by Xinhua. "They do not really dare to kill themselves. Instead, they just want to raise the relevant government authorities' attention to their appeals."

Xinhua said Lai was "taken away by police" but did not elaborate.

A police officer who answered the telephone Saturday at a station close to the bridge confirmed the incident and said it was under investigation. He refused to give any other details and hung up.

According to Xinhua, Chen wanted to kill himself because he had accrued $290,000 in debt from a failed construction project.

On Thursday, he made his way to the Haizhu bridge, where 11 other people have tried to take their lives since April.

Lai volunteered to talk Chen down but was turned away by police, Xinhua said. Lai then broke through the cordon, climbed to where Chen sat, greeted him with a handshake, then pushed.

Photos in the Beijing Morning Post showed Lai, shoeless and in a T-shirt, saluting after Chen fell.

The paper said Lai was released on bail Friday but did not give any details. It said he had been on medication for "a mental illness" for decades and had been on his way to a hospital for his pills.

Chen was recovering in the hospital, Xinhua said.
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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,521379,00.html
 
I heard about this a couple days ago, quite strange really. XD But you do have to wonder if he's right on that sometimes (not all) a person who's about to jump just wants someone to stop him. Instead of push -.-
 
...his medical expenses are just going to add to his debt. :(
 
See even old chinese men are sick of these emo turds. *shot*
 
I want to shake that old man's hand and buy him a beer. Seriously.

It was a bad thing to do, but... maybe people will think twice before making a fucktarded spectacle like that next time...

p.s. people who threaten suicide just to get attention drive me nuts... people who threaten suicide and hold up traffic just to be selfish are... selfish fucktards.
 
Just saw it on the news. It would have been hilarious if no fluff thing was there and the kid broke his head. Would have deserved it but anyway...
 
it's one of those things i feel bad about for laughing at, but it's still funny.
 
I laughed at the title, I just couldn't help it. Something about it being an elderly man doing it made it funny.
 
Hmmm, I think regardless of the situation, pushing someone off a 26 story bridge is kind of a dick move. It actually sounds a lot like attempted murder to me.
 
^^ I believe that the real dick move was the attention seeker who was threatening (with no real intent) to jump off and holding up the street for hours. Just my opinion though.

I can't wait for the keyboard cat of this!
 
I really hope people don't start to think it's acceptable to commit murder as a result of someone holding up traffic.
 
I can tell that nobody here has actually been suicidal or has been in a severely depressed state of mind before. When you start to look at life through that mindframe, everything gets messed up, including your judgment and perception of consequences. If you're honestly applauding that old man for what he did...well, I hope you never encounter a suicidal person in real life. :/
 
There was an emergency air cushion down there. It's not like he pushed him onto the pavement.
 
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I can tell that nobody here has actually been suicidal or has been in a severely depressed state of mind before. When you start to look at life through that mindframe, everything gets messed up, including your judgment and perception of consequences. If you're honestly applauding that old man for what he did...well, I hope you never encounter a suicidal person in real life. :/
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I have been suffering from depression since April of 2001, but still I would never do something like this. (my fear of death keeps me from doing the deed), never attempted either. I just don't want to end my life forever like that over what could just be a temporary problem.
 
Dictionary said:
I can tell that nobody here has actually been suicidal or has been in a severely depressed state of mind before. When you start to look at life through that mindframe, everything gets messed up, including your judgment and perception of consequences. If you're honestly applauding that old man for what he did...well, I hope you never encounter a suicidal person in real life. :/
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Yeah, I have been... people who are really suicidal generally don't do something like what the kid who got pushed do. He was an attention seeking fake.
 
Dictionary said:
I can tell that nobody here has actually been suicidal or has been in a severely depressed state of mind before. When you start to look at life through that mindframe, everything gets messed up, including your judgment and perception of consequences. If you're honestly applauding that old man for what he did...well, I hope you never encounter a suicidal person in real life. :/
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I have and still do. Diagnosed. Since I was in sixth grade, and god knows it had started before.

Get over yourself. I've got too many mental issues myself for you to get on a high horse and think that no one else here could relate. A LOT of people have issues, don't assume anyone doesn't like you already have.

Shit, it would always appeal to me when I was, and damn well still do get, in those rock-bottom times that everything that was scaring me so much could be gone. I never thought of it as killing myself, somehow I thought of it as taking a different way in getting over it. I've had those feelings in the past few months that it got in the way of everything I tried to do, no matter how important. I had to be an outpatient for a local "behavioral health system" hospital.

And despite me, in those states, NOT thinking of death as it is, but as a just another way of getting away from everything falling around my ears, I still it good when compared to many people, because I've got more support and realizing that there are things that I wouldn't want to lose. I'm not delusional enough to think I have it worse. I'm also not delusional enough to assume someone doesn't have issues themselves.

Sometimes the best way for someone to deal with things is to laugh at it. It's twisted, but if it works for someone and isn't harming them or anything else, then let it be.

So again, get over yourself. I'm very empathetic, but when it comes to dipshits feigning to want to commit suicide, then I can't say I feel very bad for them. Suicidal people don't make a production like this guy was. I WOULD feel bad if he had died, but the title would still make me laugh namely because it was an old guy. An old guy just going "fuck this shit" struck me as funny.
 
Yeah. I agree with Ralli. The guy may have been going through a tough time, and he was clearly having trouble with what he was going to do about it. If he wanted to kill himself, then thats what he was considering. However, he always reserves the right to back out of it.

That doesn't excuse the disruption he caused, though.
 
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