I Really Cannot Understand The Behaviour Of Some People
By Janey1966
@Janey1966 (24170)
Carlisle, England
September 20, 2012 7:58am CST
A guy was on the top of a roof, clearly wanting to jump off and what did the crowd below do? Show compassion? Move away and let the police (try) to talk him out of it?
No!
No, what they did was shout for him to "Jump!" and that includes women with babies in prams.
Oh, and he was filmed too..jumping. It's appeared on the internet (I haven't seen it, nor do I want to). He has survived but the police reckon they were getting somewhere until those idiots started baying for blood..and they got it too.
What's wrong with these people? What's wrong with society in general? I don't understand why anyone could behave in this way, it's sick!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2205519/Crowd-encourage-suicidal-man-jump-50ft-building-post-video-YouTube.html
Oh, and he was filmed too..jumping. It's appeared on the internet (I haven't seen it, nor do I want to). He has survived but the police reckon they were getting somewhere until those idiots started baying for blood..and they got it too.
What's wrong with these people? What's wrong with society in general? I don't understand why anyone could behave in this way, it's sick!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2205519/Crowd-encourage-suicidal-man-jump-50ft-building-post-video-YouTube.html9 people like this
21 responses
@changjiangzhibin89 (16763)
• China
22 Sep 12
I am shocked by what those "cold-blooded animals" have done.The man that intended to kill himself was surely at the end of his rope.At that juncture when his life was at stake,all the bystanders should do is telling him to hold his life dear and seeing the bright side of things,maybe he would be got round.However They went to so far as to urge him to jump off.I guess at the last moment the man jumped off, he despaired of both his life and the society.
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@Janey1966 (24170)
• Carlisle, England
22 Sep 12
Very well said my friend and I share your sentiments.
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@changjiangzhibin89 (16763)
• China
25 Sep 12
I wonder why so many people fall into decay of morals while the world moves ahead.
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@scarlet_woman (23463)
• United States
21 Sep 12
people can be unsympathetic,desensitized jerks.
although,where i live you can be arrested for encouraging like that.and with good reason.
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@purplealabaster (22091)
• United States
21 Sep 12
I think that there is a law like that here as well, although I am not absolutely certain about it. I do know that there is a difference (not only morally but also legally) between watching and not doing anything versus watching and encouraging the violence, which is why I believe that there is a law prohibiting people, especially in large groups, from instigating and/or encouraging violence.
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@Janey1966 (24170)
• Carlisle, England
21 Sep 12
If I'd have been there I would've filmed the mob on my camera (not the guy on the roof) for a few seconds, then I would've shown the film to the police on my camera screen in the station as evidence of a baying mob encouraging someone to die. I hope someone else has done this, I really do as they shouldn't get away with that type of behaviour.
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@mr_pearl (5018)
• India
20 Sep 12
Oh Janey... You know what word fits for these guys? 'Crowd'... The Mob... The guy on the roof top was crazy, no doubt.. He might have wanted to show something to someone... Some crazies and idlers on the street, who'd nothing to fill their time, started encouraging the crazy on the roof tp jump by shouting 'jump'... And the theme was picked by the people passing by... This is how it must have happened...
I am dying to watch the video... But will need a laptop... I'll see it later....
Just reached home Janey... To talk with family about that marriage thing... Wish me luck dear...
@Janey1966 (24170)
• Carlisle, England
20 Sep 12
So you would ogle too I take it? Please don't let me down by watching the video; that's sick and I'm surprised you would WANT to!
@bounce58 (17387)
• Canada
24 Sep 12
I think that's absolutely terrible. I think that when there's a group of people, it's easy for them to start chanting 'jump'. The questions is, who's the one who started it?!
It just goes to show how some people have a screwed up sense of values. And not even recognizing that it's a human life that they are having fun/chanting about.
@Janey1966 (24170)
• Carlisle, England
24 Sep 12
I wish they'd all been rounded up and arrested, to be honest, I really do.
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@murkie (1103)
• Philippines
21 Sep 12
just asking, did you see what was below the jumping man? maybe the onlookers are urging the man to jump because they have installed pads on the pavement that would somehow make the jump "safe" and got over with.
if there was none, well.. i think the people are just into gore. there was a book i've read before that people in general has that something inside them that makes them morbid, however faint it would be. take for instance those who go to the coliseum to watch the gladiators in ancient rome. or those who go to the square to watch the beheading or hanging of a criminal in medieval europe. these same people are somehow sensitive in a way. yet they go their way to watch such things.
@Janey1966 (24170)
• Carlisle, England
21 Sep 12
There was nothing below the jumping man, apart from the concrete of the street and the crowd knew this.
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oh, maybe they were just after the situation for them to have something to talk about.
@hereandthere (45645)
• Philippines
22 Sep 12
maybe the crowd thought he wasn't serious (either joking around) or thought he was trying to seek attention and pity (thus thinking he's being a baby) so they taunted him. any maybe the man's reaction to that is everyone thinks he's a loser and really wants him off the face the earth. maybe there should have been more police and they should have been more firm in shooing people far, far away and maybe even arrest them for heckling and obstructing.
@Janey1966 (24170)
• Carlisle, England
22 Sep 12
I do know the area was cordoned off in order for the police on the roof to try and talk the guy out of jumping. If people down below had just got on with their business and carried on walking then the police MAY have been able to talk this man out of jumping. I dispute the mob thinking he may have been joking. People don't generally joke about wanting to take their own life.
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@banta78 (4326)
• India
21 Sep 12
It is really disgusting. I think some good-for-nothing people don't give a damn about human life and safety. All they care for is some cheap entertainment show. Just plain sick. I am not surprised. For them care and compassion are alien concepts. I just hope somebody knocks some sense in all these idiots including the victim.
@Janey1966 (24170)
• Carlisle, England
21 Sep 12
They should be made to visit him in hospital, see what kind of injuries he's sustained. In a way, they're responsible for that..and should be accountable too.
@anex08 (868)
• Philippines
21 Sep 12
that kind of behavior displayed are unbelievable, our society today are very different that people often forgot to show compassion and concern to his fellowmen. I really can't think of how much our world had change, we human often disregard the call of our spirit and dwell on physical world with no compassion at all. If we aim for a change in the world that we live, that change must really start with ourselves.
Have a nice day!!!
@Janey1966 (24170)
• Carlisle, England
21 Sep 12
Our society is indeed very different, even from the time I was growing up, and I'm only 46 now. I don't know which generation is responsible for the way this current one is behaving..there are bad people in all generations it seems and there is no 'good' way of raising kids as it doesn't seem to be happening anymore!
@purplealabaster (22091)
• United States
21 Sep 12
It makes me feel sick to my stomach just thinking about this, and I definitely will not watch the video.
Unfortunately, even though it makes me sick to think about people behaving like this, I really cannot say that it surprises me all that much - people, especially when they are in a group like that, seem to have no compassion and seem to have forgotten where they put their moral compass.
Unfortunately, even though it makes me sick to think about people behaving like this, I really cannot say that it surprises me all that much - people, especially when they are in a group like that, seem to have no compassion and seem to have forgotten where they put their moral compass.@Janey1966 (24170)
• Carlisle, England
21 Sep 12
I've not watched the video(s) although I do know that the police want the powers to have them taken down off the internet..and quite right too. It's the fact we're not surprised that is the shocking thing. They'd all be rounded up and made an example of if this happened 20-30 years ago.
The reliance on mobile phones is astounding. I'm glad I don't have one!
@loveandpeace (470)
• Indonesia
21 Sep 12
I don't get it. I think the normal people will react on how to help the poor guy, would want him to get safe. Shout and tell him to jump was so nasty. Did they want to see his body splattered and his blood on their clothes?, so sick indeed.
@Janey1966 (24170)
• Carlisle, England
21 Sep 12
It seems that way even though some were 'shocked' when he finally decided to jump. What did they expect him to do, walk away? That's what THEY should've done; let the police try to talk him out of it.
@Janey1966 (24170)
• Carlisle, England
21 Sep 12
I wish he had..take one of them with him. He survived anyway.
@maorzh (21)
• China
21 Sep 12
This shows how indifferent people sometimes can be to other people's lives.If the one on the roof was a relative or a friend of any people below,he would have a different feeling.They just dont care if the man would die because they dont know him!How narrow-minded people can be!
@Csyluckdays (169)
• Egypt
21 Sep 12
that kind of behavior could be happen especially Nowadays.we live in mad world
@Janey1966 (24170)
• Carlisle, England
21 Sep 12
We do live in a mad world, you're right..and getting madder every day.
@titomeong (70)
• Philippines
21 Sep 12
You know, people don't understand who they are and why they are living in this world. We can't understand them, if we don't ask them, "what's wrong?" or "what's the problem with you?", is it? That's the reason why we have family and friends and other people. But only God knows what we are doing in our daily life. God Bless!
@shaggin (72131)
• United States
20 Sep 12
Wow that is absolutely terrible that people would stand there yelling to him to jump. That is so disgusting. I would have just kept on walking and stayed away from this while it was happening. The guy who was jumping could have killed someone if he landed on them. I am guessing after he gets out of the hospital if he lives that he will be in a psychiatric ward for awhile.
@angelkarah050182 (4980)
• Philippines
21 Sep 12
Oh, that was terrible. Is encouraging a person to jump off the building correct? Absolutely not. I guess these people wanted to see a show. They maybe thought that he wasn't going to jump after all.
@lelin1123 (15595)
• Puerto Rico
20 Sep 12
How horrible! I can't believe people would react this way. I could not imagine having that type of reaction to such a scene like that. People in society are becoming so crazy, sick and cold hearted. It is so scary that even females with babies in their hands would react to this in that manner. This world that we live in is becoming everything that our good Lord did not want. In the end we will pay for it, someway, somehow.
@Janey1966 (24170)
• Carlisle, England
20 Sep 12
I can't believe it either but I'm worried that I'm not actually SURPRISED! I don't know why but I guess these things are common-place now. People rubbernecking car crashes and filming them as they drive past, holding everyone else up; it's so ridiculous and sad the way many people behave nowadays.
@inertia4 (27960)
• United States
20 Sep 12
The same thing happens here. It seems that people love to see things like this. I don't know what it is, maybe a curiosity thing. People for some reason are compelled to see disaster. I know when I have to drive a long distance and the traffic slows up, people are what they call rubber necking. If there is an accident on the road, people seem to slow down to get a look at the accident. A strange thing.
@Janey1966 (24170)
• Carlisle, England
20 Sep 12
And take pics and videos on their phones, if they're anything like the scumbags over here.
@LovingMyBabies (85288)
• Valdosta, Georgia
20 Sep 12
This is absolutely terrible! I cannot believe people would do this to someone else. People do not care about others and that is truly sad. This is one of the saddest things I have heard in a while. People need to grow up! It wasn't a movie for goodness sake it was real life!!
People have no feelings these days, people like violence for some unknown reason...
@Janey1966 (24170)
• Carlisle, England
20 Sep 12
Some of them were "shocked" when the guy jumped..well, what did they expect him to do? The guy was desperate being up there in the first place. He wasn't doing it for fun.
I feel sorry for the police trying to talk him out of jumping as they claimed they were getting somewhere in their negotiations. Those on the ground made their job doubly difficult and should be ashamed of themselves.
I feel sorry for the police trying to talk him out of jumping as they claimed they were getting somewhere in their negotiations. Those on the ground made their job doubly difficult and should be ashamed of themselves.
@deazil (4730)
• United States
20 Sep 12
It's just another sign of how society is crumbling. The types of people in that crowd are the politicians and decision makers of tomorrow. And there are plenty more like them roaming the world. This is a sample of the ethics and morality of today's generation. Ethically corrupt and morally bankrupt. And that woman with kids. Somebody should make her feel so ashamed of herself. I would love to see a reporter corner her and start asking her questions about that. It's the most disgusting display of apathy I have ever seen.
@Janey1966 (24170)
• Carlisle, England
20 Sep 12
I couldn't agree more and why none of them weren't arrested I don't know but there again they weren't doing anything illegal, more's the pity.
