http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/germany_suicide_dc Suicide bid sparks punch-up among spectators Tue Nov 7, 3:59 PM ET BERLIN (Reuters) - A young woman's rooftop suicide bid in Germany sparked a mass brawl between spectators encouraging the 21-year-old to jump and a group of homeless people trying to protect her, authorities said Tuesday. The homeless people were angered when some teenagers in the crowd of hundreds started yelling to the woman she should throw herself from the roof of the town hall of the southwestern town of Loerrach, said police spokesman Dietmar Ernst. "The homeless people started shouting at the kids not to say that, using some strong language," Ernst said. "Morally speaking though, the homeless people were in the right." A punch-up involving around 40 people then ensued, during which time police managed to coax the woman back indoors -- three and a half hours after her ordeal began. Some 35 officers, six of whom were injured during the fight, were needed to break it up. Eight participants were arrested, most of them school children aged between 16 and 19. Ernst said he was doubtful that the brawl, which involved at least one girl, had stopped the woman from jumping. "She was about 70 metres (230 feet) up and probably wouldn't have seen much of what was going on," he said.
Teenagers are vile, hell-spawned incarnations of evil. Seriously, it's sad that our species has to go through the idiot years before reaching maturity. Call me a bigot, call me an ageist, I don't care
See, this is where I'm all for police brutality. Privilege kids who like cheering on the suffering of others should get a healthy dose of a beat down. It's a good thing I never became a cop, I'd make the LAPD look like nuns.
Not in my book. More like teaching the ungrateful a terrible lesson in life. If you want to act like a animal, then don't complain when someone treats you like one. Which is funny, because I see man as the only animal in this world that takes pleasure in the suffering of others- which I personally see as the lowest possible trait a human can have. I can deal with the wars, the holocausts, the endless battles for (perceived) limited resources.....but what really irks me is how little compassion many people have.
Well, I never professed to not being a "animal" myself. I guess the theme I'm trying to harp on is: How do we build a better world, without turning too unjust ourselves? Isn't this a topic that's central to the book Crime and Punishment(which I never read) by Dostoevsky? Just checking wikipedia about the novel, this is interesting: Raskolnikov believed that he was a "super-human," that he could justifiably perform what society considered a despicable act—the killing of the pawn broker—if it led to him being able to do more good through the act. Throughout the book there are examples: he mentions Napoleon many times, thinking that for all the blood he spilled, he did good. Raskolnikov believed that he could transcend this moral boundary by killing the money lender, gaining her money, and using it to do good. He argued that had Isaac Newton or Johannes Kepler had to kill one or even a hundred men in order to enlighten humanity with their laws and ideas, it would be worth it. Thus he is thrown into a moral existential confusion over the death of the pawnbroker's sister. Never at any time in the novel is he repentant over the death of the pawnbroker. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_and_Punishment I think I'll start reading this book now.
Would you dress them up in habits and stuff? Btw, what makes you think the kids were 'privileged'? I'll grant they probably weren't homeless themselves. But yeah, they needed a beatdown.
Feeding frenzy...What has this world come too...At least she didn't jump...There was a documentary recently about all the suicides on the Golden Gate Bridge...sad that they do it and even sadder that they filmed it...
From what I have read about The Bridge (the documentary) it is not glorifying any of the deaths. All the family members interviewed later said they were glad the film was made. I'm looking forward to seeing it although it is a bit sad.
There was a Wizard of Id sunday comic from years ago where a guy was on a tower and a crowd below was cheering for him to jump. A friar goes to the top of the tower and yells at the crowd that they should be ashamed and can't they see the man needs help. The crowd then begins to shout push him, push him, push him.
With the world population entirely too high and the earth's resources being consumed at an alarming rate, perhaps its better the non-contributers voluntarily take themselves out of it
