Cold Onlookers Encourage Man to Kill Himself
Why is it that the cold always seems to bring out the worst in people.
In Changchun, China, Mao Yung, a 28 year-old man, stood in the freezing cold on top of an eight story building, contemplating whether or not to commit suicide by jumping to his death.
Six hours later, commuters, who were stuck on the closed down bridge, finally had enough and began yelling for Mao to hurry up and jump.
“Jump, quick! It’s so cold. We’re all here to watch you.”
Police finally managed to pull the man to safety, but were disgusted by the attitude of the crowd.
(link)
By Sun Tzu on 17-01-2009
Comment by Jam
January 17th, 2009 at 10:14 am
Reverse psychology was maybe at the crowd’s mind at that time. It works then.
Comment by cina murtad
January 17th, 2009 at 11:56 am
naaah, the chinese there were just mean people. that’s all.
Comment by dojamota
January 17th, 2009 at 2:48 pm
Well, you have to first realize that this happened in China. Land of a billion people. 1 guy dead doesnt matter, especially if he wants to off himself. Only in America does everybody kick and scream and make a big fuss because some criminal was shot by a cop at a transit station. Anywhere else in the world the cop would have been a hero for taking a criminal off the streets.
Comment by bay area
January 17th, 2009 at 5:52 pm
peoples ignorance continues to amaze me.
Comment by Gee-man
January 18th, 2009 at 1:08 am
Yet I have absolutely no doubt in my mind that this could happen just as easily in America if some dumbass was threatening to jump off the Brooklyn bridge, halting the traffic.
Comment by ronbo
January 18th, 2009 at 5:04 am
China has nothing on Seattle, at least:
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/36928_jump29.shtml
Even the city bus drivers were taunting the jumper.
Mob mentality at its finest.
Comment by boy
January 18th, 2009 at 11:10 pm
Godless they are.
Comment by also in the bay area
January 19th, 2009 at 11:55 am
yes your idiocy is also amazing
Comment by gordon
January 19th, 2009 at 7:44 pm
terrible is all i can say, but i suppose very cold temps will make people
do things they wouldnt normally do
Comment by gordon
January 19th, 2009 at 7:45 pm
thats right when people are in large groups – mob mentality takes over -
people who are normally passive become violent
Comment by ry
January 20th, 2009 at 9:52 pm
NO U
Comment by David American
January 21st, 2009 at 5:58 pm
I wish all Chinese would kill themselves
“COME ON YOU CAN KILL YOURSELVES, YOUR LIFE IS NOT GOOD, YOU ARE TIRED, TAKE 50 SOMINEX. It’s so cold here, please hurry”
Comment by Do-lo-mi-tay
January 23rd, 2009 at 6:10 pm
your grandmother amazes me…
Comment by grace
January 25th, 2009 at 8:04 am
i agree with the reverse psychology bit. someone could’ve sung “Jumper” by 3EB
Comment by bill
February 2nd, 2009 at 4:51 pm
Your mother was also quite amazing, last night.
Comment by bill
February 2nd, 2009 at 4:52 pm
See the link above? It happened in America too. Also, why don’t you kill yourself first? China will follow afterward.
Comment by Milky
February 9th, 2009 at 2:36 am
Ok, if i had not lost all faith in humanity all ready, this is the kicker. Believe it or not it’s not really even from the story either, mostly for the comments. The story is horrid but at least it’s believable.
All the comments i see on this site, as well as most others break down to:
People using religion/racism to proclaim hate.
People telling others to kill themselves out of sadistic mind-sets.
People being cold and not caring even though this is serious.
People making “ur mom” jokes.
And a few good comments that everyone doesn’t care about.
This guys religion had nothing to do with it. He had people that would care about him. This guy was real and not just a sick joke.
The internet should have a driving test like with autos and maybe then people wouldn’t be such ignorant bigots as they seem to be, or they would be gone.
Comment by OceanBlue
February 9th, 2009 at 10:33 am
Come on David, just because I didn’t call after anal-lysing you last night, you don’t have to be mad…….. I did buy you the butt plugs you wanted, didn’t I??
Comment by Lydia
February 26th, 2009 at 12:37 pm
Its not a cultural thing-or a Chinese thing-you narrow minded people-to goad people into jumping, there are many cases of this globally happening. I don’t know why but in this situation people will shout to the sudicidel person to jump and hurry up with it as they need to “be places”. It happens everywhere, in fact just last year in Derby, England, an A level student commited suicide from a multi story car park (due to exam stress according to sources) my sister was in the area when it happened and the story caused outrage across the country as people were shouting to him to hurry up and just get it over and done with and after three hours he did jump. So stop getting on your high horses, learn a bit more about the world rather than making assumptions just because you have preconceptions of a culture. Psycgologists believe that this phenomenon is due to de-individuation, a crowd mentality similar to football hooliganism, however I don’t agree that there is an excuse.
Comment by Warren
March 20th, 2009 at 10:31 pm
Having been to China 4 times with my wife, a PRC citizen, I’ve noticed somewhat of a different mentality in the Chinese. Perhaps it is because there are so many people there or perhaps it is the result of the rampant human rights abuses they suffer at the hand of their government, but they seem to value human life less than I. The government notoriously cares little about their people and this seems to permeate the society. I’m not sure of relevance to this incident.