Motorist Pushes Suicidal Man Off Bridge 24
Perhaps inspired by Van Halen, retired soldier Lian Jiansheng, 66, broke through a police cordon and pushed would-be jumper Chen Fuchao, off a bridge. Chinese media reports that traffic had been held up for five hours while police tried to talk the suicidal Chen away from the edge. After being pushed, Chen fell 8 meters onto a partially inflated emergency air cushion and was taken to the hospital with wrist and back injuries. Lian was held by police and had this to say, "I pushed him off because jumpers like Chen are very selfish. Their action violates a lot of public interests. They do not really dare to kill themselves. Instead, they just want to raise the relevant government authorities' attention to their appeals."
8 metres (Score:2)
From TFA:
fell 8 metres (yards)
Rather poor reporting, if you ask me. 8 metres is about 8.75 yards... closer to 9 than 8. But who measures distance in yards, anyway? 26 feet would have been a much better figure.
Also, why is the display so messed up on Slashdot today? This story rendered in a long 14-pixel-wide column of text, and clearing the cache and reloading didn't fix it. I'd also like to know where the "Raw and uncut" viewing level went, but that's a different bone to pick.
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You're entitled to your opinion... granted that you're wrong, but you're entitled to it.
95% of world popultion is metric (Score:2)
Well 95% of the Worlds populations is now using the metric system. Just the USA and two rather unimportant countries are left using feeds and yards.
Martin
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Sure... just see what happens if the USA stops giving aid and paying UN dues. We'll see how unimportant it is then.
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The vast majority of Slashdot users are from the USA.
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Yes. Particularly, this part:
Feet? Who measures in feet? (implied: hardly anyone)
The correct answer happens to be, "The vast majority of the users here on Slashdot".
Read the FAQ, it clearly says the vast majority of Slashdot users are from the USA.
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Found it: http://slashdot.org/faq/editorial.shtml#ed850 [slashdot.org] and the last line says "Last Modified: 10/3/04" - are you sure that is still valid?
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We can only presume that they keep the FAQ up-to-date. If you suspect that it isn't, I suppose you could send them an e-mail asking.
Awesome (Score:2)
Instead of wasting hours of the police's time and tax payer money, just pull the trigger for him.
wow... (Score:2)
It would appear that an average Chinese-on-the-street, would put to shame an average storm-trooper or chekist, at least as far as cold-blooded murderous loyalty to the state is concerned.
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If only ve vould have had citizens such as zhis gentleman.
Rudolf Mueller, SS-OStuBF, Mitglied des Stabs des Reichsfuehrer SS: Heil Hitler!
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That was the authorities' doing, not the killer's.
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Since I'm not in a court of law, I may judge as I please: by intent. HAND.
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I think it would be excellent to have this as general policy. A) The world is getting overpopulated. B) People that top themselves or threaten to, especially in public settings, are about as selfish as you'll find anywhere.
They should have removed the cushoins and brought in a bob cat, garbage truck and street sweeper. What's loyalty to the state got to do with anything? The guy was a whiney toss pot.
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Internet tough guy. Lemme guess, 16 or so?
The suicidal are often among the more capable in society, apart from their moment(s) of weakness. The only people who are always happy, are the parasitizing-mentally retarded who are generally well-supported by another member or collective of society. Any system of eugenics should start with consideration of IQ (since it is in general the so-far-strongest hereditary attribute correlated with success and flexibility), and be effected through sterilization. Any other
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Agewisely speaking, you're about 20 years off.
I have lived with depression, I know others who have. People who throw themselves off public bridges into traffic - or even threaten to - are not simply depressed, they are selfish, inconsiderate and rude. I have said similar things to someone who was threatening to top themselves and it's amazing how when you point that out to a self obsessed fuckwit in clear terms, they suddenly look a bit embarrassed and calm down.
BTW, for the record I think the same thing ab
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Fair enough. I agree that public displays of suicide are pretty disgusting (although does this mean that society should be more supportive, in helping people to do it privately?), and that "suicide by cop" is pretty much the epitome of this kind of wrong-doing, apart from actions which actually threaten other people's lives (e.g. driving into traffic). Train jumpers are pretty lousy too.