People shouted ‘jump’ before suicidal man fell to his death

[Sickjen]

http://metro.co.uk/2015/03/16/people...06465/?ito=v-b

A suicidal man died when he fell from a building after people shouted ‘get on with it’ and ‘jump’ while police tried to coax him back from the edge.Some people even filmed the victim, aged in his 40s, as he fell to the floor on Saturday afternoon and one person was heard asking ‘how far can you bounce?’Police were called to the scene in Telford, West Midlands, and have since criticised those who shouted to the man.
Inspector Ben Smith said: ‘It is pretty appalling because it is someone who is clearly in need of support and assistance. That behaviour is something we would condemn.‘Clearly what that individual needed was time and space and a professional to help them out.
The individual would have been in need of care and support and appropriate intervention from medical professionals, so anything like that to encourage someone to jump should be unequivocally condemned.’
Kelly-Anne Taylor, 35, from Telford, said: ‘People were recording it with their phones and yelling at him to jump.
I can’t stop thinking about it. I was up town when it was happening and how much I wish I could have tried to help him.’

How do you do something like this, How is that not a crime? You deliberately know someone was about to suicide and yell jump.

Faith in humanity lost

Opinions?

[Deleted]

People don't like attention seekers

[Deleted]

Disgusting behaviour

No idea how people can be so callous

I can totally understand filming it, people film everything these days and if it was a rescue that's a cool clip for youtube

Encouraging the guy to jump - that just flat out sucks

[Jayburner]

being anonymous in a crowd is pretty much similar to the internet I guess. Trolls everywhere.

[Blueobelisk]

Do you know how many facebook likes their videos are gonna get now?

Not gonna lie. Sometimes when there are 2 hour long train delays and I'm late for class or going home because someone jumped in front, I would think "damn just keep the trains moving and run over the mother fucker." People got places to be.

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People don't like attention seekers

Oh the irony

[Rukh]

I'm not a violent person generally but I think I would seriously fuck someone up if they started shouting jump at someone on a rail.

[Independent voter]

Oh the irony

I was thinking that too!

Why do people do this? I don't know. I do know it's pretty common. Maybe a lack of sympathy for the suicide? People think the suicide is being dramatic? Or they are excessively weak?

[Sickjen]

Do you know how many facebook likes their videos are gonna get now?

Not gonna lie. Sometimes when there are 2 hour long train delays and I'm late for class or going home because someone jumped in front, I would think "damn just keep the trains moving and run over the mother fucker." People got places to be.

That's kind of terrible. I mean i understand it sucks to be late when on a tight schedule but if someone died just a few moments ago there has to be closure as to why that happened. We can't leave bodies on the tracks nor should given an opportunity to help someone deliberately hurt them.

People don't like attention seekers

If someone is about to suicide they aren't looking for attention. They need help, The police where trying to get him help when some yelled out jump. Can you imagine being that person? Having literally nothing left, When some troll tells you to jump. Its absolutely vile.

Oh the irony

i see what you did there.

I'm not a violent person generally but I think I would seriously fuck someone up if they started shouting jump at someone on a rail.

Me too, I can't stand people sometimes,All lives matter.

Why do people do this? I don't know. I do know it's pretty common. Maybe a lack of sympathy for the suicide? People think the suicide is being dramatic? Or they are excessively weak?

i guess suicide jumpers are dramatic right?

They do it because they have nothing left to live for or so they think.

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Oh the irony

Irony in your irony

FYI I aren't supporting people chanting jump,

[apepi]

Does this count as assisted suicide?

[Kujako]

i guess suicide jumpers are dramatic right?

They do it because they have nothing left to live for or so they think.

Um... in the pictures you provided they did it cause an airplane hit the building they were in.

[3DTyrant]

Unfortunately, humans can be royal cunts. Hope the people that did the 'cheering' are caught, as unlikely as it is.

[Deleted]

People will joke about things much worse than this on this site (funny pictures thread can get a touch dark at times) and it is tolerated, yet an article in a newspaper about a crowd doing it to a random person somewhere in the UK and people start getting up in arms about it.

so confusing trying to work people out at times.

[Sole-Warrior]

Looks like trolls can act just as douche as they would in online disguising their identity.

[Sickjen]

Why does everything need to be a crime? I agree that the crowd was full of pathetic assholes, but throwing them in jail cause they didn't want to hold hands and sing Kumbaya is just as sickening.

Interfering with a police officer
http://www.massbar.org/publications/...on-law-offense

Assisting Suicide is only legal under some circumstances this not being one

Does this count as assisted suicide?

in all honesty it should.

[Sickjen]

Um... in the pictures you provided they did it cause an airplane hit the building they were in.

Sure, i know it did. but it's the same scenario you jump because you have nothing else to lose. They could have died in the building
but they where being "dramatic" as the quote assumed suicide jumpers are. This is suicide jumping whether you want to believe it or not. Circumstances are no different.

I call bullshit and over reaching.

The police where trying to coax him down when some guy interfered yeah that's illegal to further my point it was caught on video.

Unfortunately, humans can be royal cunts. Hope the people that did the 'cheering' are caught, as unlikely as it is.

how do people live with that knowing you are the one that pushed him over. you know?

[zorkuus]

Um... in the pictures you provided they did it cause an airplane hit the building they were in.

No they didn't. They did it because an airplane hit the building in a manner so destructive that they felt all hope of being rescued was lost. Would they have jumped if some small airplane did only some minor damage and the elevators were still working? Now that would've been dramatic.

[Revik]

The thing I don't understand is if you are going to commit suicide why does it have be all dramatic and in a public setting? Are they waiting to see how much attention they can get before they go? Do they want to make some kind of statement and be a martyr?

I don't see much point in it and as a person would rather just move on with my life with detached apathy. Now if they are genuinely looking for help there are other ways of doing that as well.

[Deleted]

Unfortunately, humans can be royal cunts. Hope the people that did the 'cheering' are caught, as unlikely as it is.

And do what with them ?

What you find humorous and what others Find humorous are completely subjective. I have a pretty dark and twisted sense of of humour which would would quite easily offend people who do not share the same humour as me, Does that mean I should be "caught" by what I assume you mean is the police ? What would the charge be ? Telling a sick joke ?

Not saying what they done is right or in good taste, I am not saying it was wrong either, It was just stupid.