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Started by Josquius, May 23, 2009, 09:45:42 AM

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Josquius

May 23, 2009, 09:45:42 AM
http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,25526205-5003402,00.html


QuoteA MAN in southern China has been taken into police custody after pushing a would-be-suicide jumper off a bridge frequented by people threatening to end their lives
Lai Jiansheng was detained by police for pushing a man named Chen off the bridge in Guangzhou city that has been the site of 12 suicide attempts since the beginning of April, the China Daily said.

None of the suicide attempts have been successful, the paper said, but traffic over the bridge has been jammed for hours during each attempt as police sought to talk the people out of ending their lives.

"I pushed him off because jumpers like Chen are very selfish. Their actions violate a lot of public interests," the paper quoted Mr Lai as saying.

Mr Lai, upset with the traffic delay, broke through the police cordon on the bridge, walked up to Chen and shook his hand before pushing him off the bridge, it said.

Chen was threatening to commit suicide because of a two million yuan ($374,000) debt he incurred over a failed construction project, it said.

The would-be jumper fell eight metres into a partially-inflated emergency cushion and came away from the incident with his life intact but his back injured, it said.

Police said that with each suicide attempt, the city had to send police, firemen, rescue vessels and an ambulance.


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CountDeMoney

#1
May 23, 2009, 10:30:57 AM
China needs more bridges.  For obvious reasons.

Savonarola

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May 23, 2009, 10:45:57 AM
Quote from: Tyr on May 23, 2009, 09:45:42 AM
"I pushed him off because jumpers like Chen are very selfish. Their actions violate a lot of public interests," the paper quoted Mr Lai as saying.

It's nice to see someone stand up and enforce the Social Contract.   :)
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Martinus

#3
May 23, 2009, 10:59:43 AM
Sounds like Mono. :D

Razgovory

#4
May 23, 2009, 11:23:00 AM
Very civic minded.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

Darth Wagtaros

#5
May 23, 2009, 11:45:57 AM
Quote from: Martinus on May 23, 2009, 10:59:43 AM
Sounds like Mono. :D
I'd have said hsi wife.  It is a very Chinese response.
PDH!

CountDeMoney

#6
May 23, 2009, 11:46:46 AM
Quote from: Darth Wagtaros on May 23, 2009, 11:45:57 AM
Quote from: Martinus on May 23, 2009, 10:59:43 AM
Sounds like Mono. :D
I'd have said hsi wife.  It is a very Chinese response.

Either or, doesn't matter.  All those slanty-eyed robotrons think and act the same.

Siege

#7
May 23, 2009, 11:46:24 PM
I have never understood why, if somebody is going to commit suicide, not to go with a bang and take as many muslims as possible.

Its a waste to go empty-handed.



"All men are created equal, then some become infantry."

"Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who don't."

"Laissez faire et laissez passer, le monde va de lui même!"

Queequeg

#8
May 23, 2009, 11:59:20 PM
Quote from: Siege on May 23, 2009, 11:46:24 PM
I have never understood why, if somebody is going to commit suicide, not to go with a bang and take as many muslims as possible.

Its a waste to go empty-handed.
:lol:

Jesus Christ.  So you are saying that the best way to commit suicide would be by blowing yourself up amongst a lot of Muslims?


What the fuck is the difference between you and a member of Hamas, Siege? 
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Habbaku

#9
May 24, 2009, 01:44:49 AM
Quote from: Queequeg on May 23, 2009, 11:59:20 PM
What the fuck is the difference between you and a member of Hamas, Siege?

The Muslims hate everyone else; Siege only hates the Muslims.

Siege is our useful robot.
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HVC

#11
May 24, 2009, 09:08:06 AM
At least he introduced himself first :lol:
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Norgy

#12
May 24, 2009, 09:14:31 AM
Quotea bridge frequented by people threatening to end their lives

A sad way to honour fine engineering.
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