Just jump already!

[Batman]

I thought this sort of thing would only happen in New York.
A 66-year-old Chinese man gets tired of waiting on a bridge jumper, so he walks up, shakes his hand -- and pushes him off the bridge. The jumper survived (authorities had set up an inflatable landing pad below).

Before he was hauled off, the pusher explained why he did it:

"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.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/05/22/international/i225847D66.DTL&tsp=1

 

[DirtyDeeds]

Saw this a little earlier and thought about posting it here.
What a strange little story. Found this little nugget interesting.

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.

 

[writing irish]

Crazy guy, meet crazy guy! Whoops!

 

[schiezainc]

To be fair, he really wanted to get home to watch the end of the Cavs-Magic game.

 

[Football_Bat]

The guy's paper must not have a no-jump policy.

 

[DirtyDeeds]

Boooooooooo!

 

[Double J]

That story is all kinds of awesome.

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.

 

[KG]

The salute made it even more great.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

That reminds me of Crocodile Dundee II, when Mick walks around on the building's ledge and asks the guy who wants to jump:

"You mind getting a move on? I'm on my lunch break."

 

[Double J]

Better yet, from "Lethal Weapon," where Riggs handcuffs himself to the all-talk-no-action wannabe plunge artist:

"Do you really wanna jump?! Do you wanna?! Well, then that's fine with me. Come on, let's do it, asshole - let's do it!!"



"You're not trying to draw a psycho pension - you really are crazy!"

 

[Huggy]

Every dirty job that comes along....

 

[Ten]

Less chat, more splat, pal!

 

[Killick]

Better yet, from "Lethal Weapon," where Riggs handcuffs himself to the all-talk-no-action wannabe plunge artist:

"Do you really wanna jump?! Do you wanna?! Well, then that's fine with me. Come on, let's do it, asshole - let's do it!!"



"You're not trying to draw a psycho pension - you really are crazy!"

My favorite moment of the whole LW series, for this reason: When Mel has the gun under his chin, and Glover stops him, watch Mel's eyes. Goes from crazy, to an even scarier dead calm and "I'm hungry. I'm gonna go get a hot dog," walks out. Those 10 seconds, and just his eyes... wow.

Second fave isn't even in the main cut of the film. If you get the director's cut, there's a scene where Riggs takes out a sniper at a school. Just calmly walks to the middle of the kill zone with shots peppering all around him, taunts the shooter to get him to show himself and unloads a clip into the guy.

 

[KG]

My favorite moment of the whole LW series, for this reason: When Mel has the gun under his chin, and Glover stops him, watch Mel's eyes. Goes from crazy, to an even scarier dead calm and "I'm hungry. I'm gonna go get a hot dog," walks out. Those 10 seconds, and just his eyes... wow.
[/quote]

That scene had me hook, line and sinker.

 

[Magic In The Night]

And now ... there's video!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8069686.stm

 

[Baron Scicluna]

Why the heck did the firefighters just pick the guy up after he landed? If there was any possiblity of injury, they should have held him still.

 

[Double J]

Maybe they wanted him to die, so there would be no chance of him trying something stupid like that again.

 

[Bamadog]

That guy gets a thumbs up in my book. If you're going to commit suicide, just do it with a gun or some pills at home. Don't hold up traffic in the hopes someone will convince you to live.

I was late to a big prep football game because of one of these idiot attention seekers on an overpass over I-75 in Atlanta. I just turned my car off and waited. And waited. I got out of my car on the interstate, met some nice folks wondering what the hell was the holdup, and then, 30 minutes later, traffic started to move again. I missed the first quarter and most of the second on a game that was easily one of the best in the state that year.

 

[poindexter]

Didn't Dirty Harry punch his wannabe jumper, while in the extended cherry picker?

I think that is when his then-partner asked why his name is Dirty Harry.

"Because I get stuck with every dirty job that comes along."

 

[KG]

That guy gets a thumbs up in my book. If you're going to commit suicide, just do it with a gun or some pills at home. Don't hold up traffic in the hopes someone will convince you to live.

I was late to a big prep football game because of one of these idiot attention seekers on an overpass over I-75 in Atlanta. I just turned my car off and waited. And waited. I got out of my car on the interstate, met some nice folks wondering what the hell was the holdup, and then, 30 minutes later, traffic started to move again. I missed the first quarter and most of the second on a game that was easily one of the best in the state that year.

I wonder if that was the time where there were three would-be jumpers in one month. It doesn't happen that often around Atlanta, but there was one "busy" jumper month.