Hey babe.
Here ya go.
Posted on 02/25/2005 10:17:24 PM PST by ijcr
A woman who has attempted suicide four times has been banned from jumping into rivers, canals or onto railway lines.
Bath magistrates granted an anti-social behaviour order (Asbo) against Kim Sutton from Odd Down.
The 23-year-old was rescued three times from the River Avon in Bath last year after trying to take her life.
She was also found hanging from a railway parapet and police had to stop trains to rescue her. Sutton could be jailed for breaking the order.
On Thursday, magistrates sentenced her for three public order offences after deciding at an earlier hearing that throwing herself into a river did constitute disorder.
The Asbo seeks to prevent her doing anything which could cause alarm or distress to the public.
This is actually very effective. If she now violates the terms of the order, they can drag her soggy butt into court and slap her with an order not to violate the order.
Silliness.
I'm sure the ban will stop her next time......
Could she get the death penalty?
Mark
Here, Kim.
Let me help.
Have a brick.
On second thought, maybe the Judgr needs the brick ...
... up alongside the head!
Banned from jumping in rivers? Where I live in the summer kids are jumping off the Northshore Road bridge into Fort Loudon Lake, a part of the Tennessee River, all the time and the cops don't pay any attention to it.
Why, its a restraining order. We know how well they work.
Stop complaining bragging.
Hey babe.
Here ya go.
Reminds me of the story from Mediaeval England where a guy cut his throat to committ suicide but botched it, cutting only his windpipe. It was a capital offence in those days, so they had to bind up his neck with bandages to make sure he couldn't breathe when they hanged him!
Illegal in the UK -- but you knew that.....
Oh, well, that will stop her...a court order.
Sorry Gondring. Didn't see your post until after I'd posted my #30.
In France, in the Middle Ages, attempts at suicide were a crime punishable by the death penalty.
Kinda makes sense, really.
She'd better be careful or she will get in real trouble if she kills herself by drowning in a river.
Seems the Noose would kill a person anyway by cutting off blood flow to the brain?
Apparently not for a long time. There was a Scottish rebel who the English captured. They hanged him at every town on the road south. They'd cut him down just before he strangled/suffocated and take him to the next town for a re-run. Eventually, his spine at the neck gave way.
In a very odd and roundabout way, yes.
Killing yourself put your immortal soul in danger. If you were executed you were just as dead, which is what you wanted in the first place, but they would provide you with all the trapping so you had a chance at heaven.
There used to be a law in Britain which made attempted suicide a crime punishable by death! It was revoked many years ago. Logically, it was the most brainless law imaginable.
They could inquire if she would consent to being inserted into one of our top-of-the-line nuclear nose cones, along with two of our least essential American compadres, Michael Moron and Ward-the-non-Cherokee Churchill.
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