Such pranks/hoaxes are not funny and can cost lives, like a volunteer fire fighter getting killed in an intersection responding to a fire alarm at a local high school.
Why do we waste time rushing to prevent suicides? I understand feeling responsible if you already have someone in your hands, especially if they’re not in their right minds. But why go out seeking people to protect against themselves? Let them die if they want.
Or is it the Public Health tobacco/fatty-fatty-fat-fat rationale? We have to kick in their doors to save money on psychiatrist bills and stitching up his wrists. I offer the same solution to that conundrum as any socialized medicine conundrum: cut him off. If doctors’ bills are too much of a burden, he can always finish himself off.
He’s very lucky to be alive, guy needs to buy a lottery ticket ASAP so he can move away from that particular clan of ninjas.