Suicide woman banned from rivers

BBC NEWS ^ | 25 February, 2005 | A.N.Other

[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.

[ijcr]

Intervention,UK style.Oooh! Them wacky Brits.

[GeronL]

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

A suicidal woman from ODD down in BATH has been banned from jumping in rivers.

OOOOKKKKKKAAAYYYY

[1FASTGLOCK45]

How about we get her a job cleaning out Cyanide pipelines without any kind of respiratory gear? ;)

[Larry Lucido]

Just permanently install a flotation device on her and don't worry about her again.

[Mike Darancette]

If you try to kill yourself we'll shoot you.

[nothingnew]

"A woman who has attempted suicide four times has been banned from jumping into rivers, canals or onto railway lines.

bwahahahaha!!!!...OH!...STOP!...HAHAHA!

"Ms. Sutton, we have no choice as court and magistrate but to ban you from trying to commit suicide, repeatedly, on our common causeways. Now you listen here, you crazed little tart! The next time you force appropriated funds from the Commonwealth to pull your buns from imminent death, we will ban you from listening to the BBC and any Benny Hill reruns that may come about. We are serious in this matter, and if you long for the fijords that badly, we the court, recommend you purchase an airline ticket from your well padded government health insurance account and fly straight out of this country and fly to your beyond.!"

FMCDH(BITS)

[GSlob]

Why bother? She should have been fined for costs and creating public nuisance and ordered to undertake her next attempt in a place with a decent level of privacy - and with higher competency, too!

[nothingnew]

See #6.

FMCDH(BITS)

[dighton]

A woman who has attempted suicide four times has been banned from jumping into rivers, canals or onto railway lines.

And there it is! Banning, a fate worse than death.

[xJones]

A suicidal woman from ODD down in BATH has been banned from jumping in rivers.

But it was anti-social behavior. She's been banned from drowning herself or running onto railway lines. This does leave other options for her such as knives and carbon monoxide poisoning so the ruling isn't all that restrictive.

She may get jail time, which sounds like it would do even more to increase her suicidal tendencies. Still, jail time had better help because the option of putting her in a mental ward to try and stop her desire to kill herself isn't even mentioned!

[GeronL]

What about pointy sticks?? She might step on a rake!! Don't these judges care?? =o)

[jz638]

They should enforce the order on pain of death. That'll teach her.

[SigPro2340]

England better ban water quick.

[Nick Danger]

Stop I say! Or I shall say 'stop' again!

[This Just In]

Although a number of these posts are very funny, I must say that I feel sorry for this 23 year old woman.

[fella]

Meanwhile in Florida USA a woman who most likely wants to live and be treated is to be slowly staved to death by her husband simply because he hired a "hit" lawyer.,

[1FASTGLOCK45]

Hey I'm going to borrow this for my tagline for a while, hope you don't mind :)

[1FASTGLOCK45]

No, England will hire Saddam as master architect and reroute/dam up all the water.

[Gondring]

From a letter by Nicholas Ogarev, the Russian poet living in London, around 1860:

"A man was hanged who had cut his throat, but who had been brought back to life. They hanged him for suicide. The doctor had warned them that it was impossible to hang him as the throat would burst open and he would breathe through the aperture. They did not listen to his advice and hanged their man.

The wound in the neck immediately opened and the man came back to life again although he was hanged. It took time to convoke the aldermen to decide the question of what was to be done. At length the aldermen assembled and bound up the neck below the wound until he died. Oh my Mary [Sutherland], what a crazy society and what a stupid civilization."

Stupid "civilization," indeed. At least a person's property is no longer forfeit for suicide.

[snarks_when_bored]

And I thought going swimming within 30 minutes after eating a sandwich was dangerous...