I suppose if you wanted to kill yourself there are hundreds of different ways to do it, but did you know that in Japan – who’s suicide rate is high, the most popular method of killing one’s self is to leap to their death.
Sorry, that wouldn’t be my first choice!
I guess this choice of suicide is dangerous for pedestrians as well. In April an 18 year old woman jumped to her death from a nine story Tokyo building. Unfortunately she landed on a 60 year old pedestrian who was walking by at the time. Luckily he only suffered bruises. Same for a 27 year old man who was landed on by a 39 year old jumper in May 2000. This last event also happened in Tokyo so I guess if your visiting the city stay away from high buildings!
Hmmm, I guess it’s a fair bet they aren’t thinking about that poor guy they could land on. I wonder about subway jumpers too – don’t they think they could traumatize the driver for life?!
Wow, I’m surprised the poor old guy made it
man that is something you don’t see everyday! I can not image walking down the street and have a deeply depressed person landing on me or the person next to me. that is just to wild!
I can the see the appeal. It’s like free skydiving — who wouldn’t want a big rush on the way out. Kind of a morbid post though. I’m also amazed the poor people who got hit weren’t killed.