Boy crushed by suicide jumper

The Washington Times ^ | August 8, 2004 | UPI

[thegreatbeast]

Nishinomiya, Japan, Aug. 8 (UPI) -- A 20-year-old student died Sunday in Japan when a man who leaped from the top of a high-rise building landed on top of him.

[night reader]

geez, if you're going to take yourself out could you at least show the courtesy to avoid taking people with you.

Maybe, like Herod the Great, he wanted to make certain there be grieving at his death.

[harrycarey]

Reminds me of a Seinfeld episode when a suicide jumper landed on George's car after he "finally" got a good parking space right next to the hospital.

[Bluntpoint]

Memorials should be directed to the "Harry S. Truman School of the Performing and Glowing Arts."

[tnlibertarian]

Perhaps the man was not committing suicide, but simply trying to reenact Kerry's post-convetnion bounce.

[azhenfud]

They ought to execute the man.

[boris]

[RGSpincich]

How do we know it wasn't a suicide com-pact?

[Mercat]

We knew a man, a genius with a couple of doctorates and a law decree who got hooked on heroin and killed himself by jumping off of the SF Bay bridge. He left a note saying he was aiming to hit a tour boat so he would take people with him. A thoroughly evil man.

[TRY ONE]

Another reason why guns save lives!

If the jumper had just been able to shoot himself, the jumpee would have been saved.

[freepertoo]

Wondering if anyone saw the extremely dismal movie, "Hours" which has a sub-message saying 'go head, commit suicide...you don't owe a thing to anyone but yourself."

My elderly mom picked it out for us to watch together because she thought it was a "gal flick." Er...lesbian flick with suicide is good for you overtones.

[Guillermo]

The law degree was the first indication he was evil...

[knuthom]

both the student and the 30-year-old jumper died instantly.

I remember a suicide attempt when I lived in upstate New York. The selfish moron who wanted to kill himself decided to cross the centerline on a two lane highway, causing a head-on collision with another car. The woman in the other car died, but he lived. If he had died, they would never have known it was deliberate. It might have been blamed on falling asleep at the wheel or something similiar.

[sushiman]

" Did the guy that jumped live? "

Dead as a Japanese doornail .

[FourPeas]

trying to reenact Kerry's post-convetnion bounce.

Ah, I understand. Performance art.

[Dawgmeister]

Gravity works.

[tnlibertarian]

Ah, I understand. Performance art.

Exactly. However, I understand the performance fell flat.

[mhking]

Was the jumper's name "Coyote, Wile E.?"

Just damn.

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[ImProudToBeAnAmerican]

It sucks to be crushed.

[null and void]

He was in the right profession...

[Squantos]

The student was probably yelling for the guy to jump.......and got what he wanted.........:o)

Yeah....thats the ticket !

Stay safe !