Passer-by pushes suicide jumper in south China

Passer-by pushes suicide jumper in south China

Saturday, May 23, 2009


(05-23) 01:34 PDT BEIJING, China (AP) --

Chen Fuchao, a man heavily in debt, had been contemplating suicide on a bridge in southern China for hours when a passer-by came up, shook his hand — and pushed him off the ledge.

Chen fell 26 feet (8 meters) onto a partially inflated emergency air cushion laid out by authorities and survived, suffering spine and elbow injuries, the official Xinhua News Agency said Saturday.

The passer-by, 66-year-old Lai Jiansheng, had been fed up with what he called Chen's "selfish activity," Xinhua said. Traffic around the Haizhu bridge in the city of Guangzhou had been backed up for five hours and police had cordoned off the area.

"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."


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treatment than he just dished out. I'm guessing the guy he pushed is the more republican of the two.

No time for dilly dallying!

Otherwise it might be. (Though admittedly I know nothing of the Chinese legal system)

Probably sorry the guy he pushed didn't die.

People who really want to commit suicide eventually do it. If I could get that close to a person I would have pulled him back.

Sure, it might kill you. But it's also likely to leave you alive (for the time being) while causing all sorts of broken bones and internal injuries. If you're going to jump, why jump from such a low height?

26 feet is nothing.

Success isn't guaranteed if jumping off a 5 storey building.

Hell, they should just sell painless fast-acting drugs OTC. You know, the same sorts that get injected into mass murderers and repeat rapists at taxpayer expense, despite what they did caused was anything but fast-acting or painless...

That's pretty funny.

I sure hope China has single-payer healthcare for all, or Chen will be even more heavily in debt. He sure would be in the good old USofA!