It doesn’t give his name. I suppose we could just call him “Penny.”
Well, at least he had a good reason for jumping.
rapid deceleration trauma
Briefly, yes.
A friend of a friend (no, really!) used to be not only a college professor, but also something like a floor monitor for a dorm. One night he got a frantic call that a girl in the dorms had tried to kill herself. She had slashed her wrists.
The guy got over there to take care of her. When he asked her why she wanted to kill herself, she said it was because she couldn’t do anything right.
Fortunately, she was OK, as she’d slashed the tops of her wrists.
He had a bouncy personality.
Or as Frank Zappa sang…
"Just make sure you do it right the first time,
'cause nothing’s worse than a Suicide Chump"
Another argument for mandating Bouncy Castles around tall buildings.
Yeah, right.
“Rugrat killed by depressed jumper.”
Think of the children!
Believe I’ve posted this around here before, but:
Dude, talk to your school counselor, Clergyman or Physician.
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Believe I’ve posted this around here before, but…
You are seriously one sick & twisted individual!
As bad as it was for me to see the guy who intentionally 'Texas ___ Saw Massacred" himself; his wife is probably *still *in therapy from when she walked outside some 14 years later.
Sorry, to clarify, I’ve posted the quote here, but I didn’t write it originally. That could’ve been clearer.
ETA And didn’t Hemmingway shoot himself with a shotgun in a doorway so his wife would have to walk around him? wikipedia… Hm, maybe apocryphal. Although the shotgun is true.
Another jumper here – we get a lot of jumpers – was a Thai man who decided to end it all by flinging himself off the top of a condominium building in the lower Sukhumvit Road area. Despite the street-hooker sleaze in that particular area, there are loads of upscale condos. The jumper landed square on top of a 16-year-old Scandinavian girl sunning herself by poolside, killing them both. Norwegian I think she was.
You always make me feel better, Sam. :rolleyes:
Can we get back to elephant polo or something? 
Then there was the “jumper” in Pattaya, 90 minutes from Bangkok. After this one farang (Westerner) hit the ground, it was determined that he had apparently died before going out the window. Hmmm. The police, ever helpful, postulated that he had happened to die of natural causes while sitting in the window, and then the force of gravity eventually caused him to tumble over out the window. I believe this was a shady businessman with lots of enemies. Last I heard, the case was closed.
Sounds like those detectives…
puts on glasses
Fell for it.
YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
They told me there would be elephants. 
Thailand has the best police that money can buy … very literally.
Um, I don’t get it. If you string piano wire across the edge of the building at neck level, but you have your arms in front of it as you lean forward to fall, you won’t have enough momentum to cut your head off. You might cut off your oxygen enough to faint and collapse under the wire, but then you will simply look like a failed bungee jumper, and you might not even succeed in killing yourself at all, although you might have dislocated hips. Certainly not very traumatizing to anyone happening to see it.