Jumper gets taunted by crowd
I'm going straight to hell for this one, but I read this story and cracked up laughing.
For me the comment "How far can you bounce" is just comedy gold.
More reportage, and a n ITN video report [SFW] is available.
(, Mon 6 Oct 2008, 17:46, Reply)
People who find this funny and those who goaded him.....
find a place in my categorical loathing between a rapist and the dried spit in the corner of a dog's mouth.
Let's see how funny Yarblesnake finds it should ever have a family member tormented this way.
Fail.
(, Mon 6 Oct 2008, 19:08, Reply)
Hmm...dunno if i found this one funny.
Saw the story running originally, and at the risk of sounding like a Mail or Express journo....You have to wonder what the world is coming to when people act like that...
...then again, the story makes it sound like people stood around for ages like a mob, but the reality is probably that one bell-end shouted it, and the police went and got him to fuck off straight away.
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Kung_Fu_Russ ran out of amusing signatures on, Mon 6 Oct 2008, 17:49,
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Certainly a more measured response than I was expecting.
I found the links from a puff-piece article on the Grauniad which was banging on about how absolutely appalling and sickening it was. I just feel the needless sensationalism of the articles was at least equally cheapening of the event.
Well granted it was unpleasant behaviour, but I still found it funny in a gallows-humour style.
Though I'm loath to ascribe groupthink to b3ta, this is still a site where Madeleine McCann jokes are still posted pretty much every week; where the Falling Man motivator made an FP; where the Asian Tsunami was the subject of much joking and where I read a hilarious QOTW response about someone getting hit by a tube train.
I'm happy to delete the thread if anyone feels particularly strongly about this - I just thought that there's normally a fairly twisted streak to the boards.
(, Mon 6 Oct 2008, 18:16, Reply)
I'm not judging you, dude...
I'm not shocked, appalled, or offended.
I simply don't agree that it's funny. And yes, it takes a lot on these boards to offend.
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Kung_Fu_Russ ran out of amusing signatures on, Mon 6 Oct 2008, 18:44,
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Having dealt with depression for 15 years
I think in that circumstance I would retreat from the edge of the building and find as many heavy objects to throw at the pig ignorant pricks taunting someone for their illness. It would probably turn my mood around. Why kill yourself, when you can kill them? :D
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Bela Lugosi's Dad, Mon 6 Oct 2008, 17:54,
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Refrigerators don't bounce
But that would be a novel way of finding out.
EDIT Ooooh I like your badge!
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redazril I LIKE DRUGS!, Mon 6 Oct 2008, 17:56,
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Defianlty
Really feel for the poor family of this lad aswell. To think in your son's last moments he was being goaded into death, i cant imagine how much worse that makes the situation for them.
Suicides a fucked up thing. and even if the person was goading them because they thought it was a cry for help or what ever. Those circumstances are awfull aswell. When some one feels so lost, that they cant see a solution, only one they dont truly want to go through with. Thats a shit situation to be in
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Jorvic, Mon 6 Oct 2008, 18:17,
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ha ha ha ha
no really, that's hilarious
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Blue Star was working part time at the 5 and Dime, Mon 6 Oct 2008, 18:15,
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i found it a bit sad
I like to think that the "minority" were trying to use reverse psychology on the lad.
/half full
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mookay immune to icons since, Mon 6 Oct 2008, 18:52,
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"A tormented teenager plunged 60ft to his death from a multi-storey car park."
Comedy GOLD!
(, Mon 6 Oct 2008, 19:07, Reply)
Seriously,
what is 4chan,I've never bothered my arse to look?
From the references it gets here I'd guess it's mostly lolcats and wankers.
(, Mon 6 Oct 2008, 19:40, Reply)
Yarblesnake,
go on, please slit your wrists, lets see how far the blood spurts.
Cunt.
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@RBFesquire Good luck b3ta, was nice knowing you. So long., Mon 6 Oct 2008, 19:13,
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If I do, you have my full approval to laugh at the ridiculousness at my demise.
That is all. Now fuck off.
You didn't know the chap, odds are you were never influenced by him, and he chose to end his life in a ridiculous manner.
Want a tragedy? Look at the people who die of malaria every single year. This is a disease that could be treated pretty damn easily.
The above isn't a tragedy, it's some overcosseted twat in an industrialised nation unable to withstand a couple of knocks.
Ah - to hell with it. Internet white knights to the rescue of a dead guy. Good luck with that.
(, Mon 6 Oct 2008, 23:33, Reply)
it will just seep
if you slit...
you should dig deep if you want to take this route!
and seriously, there is some major hypocrisy going on in this thread, some people need to get over themselves.
(, Tue 7 Oct 2008, 2:42, Reply)
^ this ^
hard
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gunkyfibbon ...acting his shoe size, not his age, since, Tue 7 Oct 2008, 20:37,
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I thought up the arm,
not across was better.
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@RBFesquire Good luck b3ta, was nice knowing you. So long., Thu 9 Oct 2008, 8:54,
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Cheers.
We had a suicide in the family not too long ago.
Fucking hilarious.
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Monty Propps, Mon 6 Oct 2008, 19:26,
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Can you post something fluffy of kittens or something.
I know you have a large database of fluffiness to counteract sadness on the b3ta boards.
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lord turkey boy and the cleft of venus, Mon 6 Oct 2008, 19:46,
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You were looking for the video on this wasn't you.
Sick fuck.
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Mx-Dr Trying to be somewhere between an ape and a robot., Mon 6 Oct 2008, 19:38,
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I just cant find this funny
I just felt so sorry for the poor lad. To be that desperate and for thats guys last moments to be filled with cock ends calling for his death is just horrific and a sad reflection on our society.
I will agree though that there is a fine line, especially on B3TA, between what tragedy people generally find comedy in and what people find offensive. I guess it does come down to each individual.
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lord turkey boy and the cleft of venus, Mon 6 Oct 2008, 19:38,
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just curious....
How many times have you wanted to delete this thread since you posted it?
(, Mon 6 Oct 2008, 19:46, Reply)
i saw/heard the same kind of thing years ago
bunch of sick cunts chanting 'jump, jump' etc. the police found it amusing enough...sick cunts the lot of them.
not funny
(, Mon 6 Oct 2008, 20:32, Reply)
How many times?
None.
I thought I'd offer it as an act of contrition if there was sufficient, and reasoned argument therefore. All that has been forthcoming is of little substance.
Kung Fu Ross gets a mention, as he approached the subject with reason - rather than knee-jerk emotional reactions. Not that I'm accusing you of that - just reporting on the general theme of the thread.
Mushroom posits an interesting point - whether it's a normal aspect of behaviour to behave so callously. They reference an event where a disabled woman was urinated on, and who subsequently died. Their argument - the extent of our retained humanity _is_ interesting - and with nearly 7 billion of us on the planet this may be critical to our survival.
I like phoenixblend's point about the difference between passively observing after the event (which, in a sense is what this thread is) and actively encouraging it to happen. I'll need to think about that.
And Lord Turkey Boy, for your call for restraint is applauded. I'm not suggesting you found this funny, but your reminder that we all have different levels of that which we consider tasteless, is applauded.
Fuckit. Captain Pilchard... I've been ignored? Boo hoo and screw yourself.
(, Mon 6 Oct 2008, 23:49, Reply)
for saying this sort of thing is funny
you can say hello to the ignoure button. he was 17 years old, and that was a terrible way to die. the police should of arrested or fined the people who encouraged the poor kid.
you are a twat, go back to 4chan.
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Captain Pilchard The king of B-movies!, Mon 6 Oct 2008, 21:02,
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Society should find the goading cunts
and push them off the top... then we can see for sure how far they'll bounce.
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mr.dogshit The world's premier anthropomorphic canine faeces, Tue 7 Oct 2008, 0:00,
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just a thought..
if he had launched himself under a train, or of a motorway bridge, causing you to be late for work or some other important thing- how would you feel then?
no need to post an answer, as i know most peoples first reaction (if we are honest) would be "the selfish bastard". the baying crowd is no different to you or i. it is unpalletable, but it is a fact of life. the real tradgedy is that depression is stigmatised and sufferers sometimes have to take this way out.
(, Tue 7 Oct 2008, 2:55, Reply)