Tuesday, June 5, 2007
Randomly Noted News of the Weird: Death leaps
Posted by Chuck Shepherd on Tue, Jun 5, 2007 at 7:22 PM
Japan’s suicide rate is high, with death leaps among the most popular methods. In April in Tokyo, an 18-year-old woman jumped to her death from a nine-story building, but she landed on a 60-year-old man walking by. He suffered only bruises, as did a 27-year-old pedestrian in May 2000 when a 39-year-old suicider landed on him in Tokyo. (However, in March 2000, in Taichung, Taiwan, both the suicidal jumper and the unlucky pedestrian were killed.)
© 2007 Chuck Shepherd
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