Just saw someone jump off the top of a 5 story car park.

I'm seriously saddened by the lack of certain peoples knowledge and perhaps even ignorance about depression and how it affects someone. When you are so depressed that you have gone as far wishing and wanting yourself dead because you can't see any way out it is awful, it is a time when you most need support and someone to help and listen to you. You can't say they are selfish for wanting to end their life, you have absolutely no idea of what they are going through.

Please have a bit of respect, and try to understand that depression is serious, and people can't just "snap out of it" as it were. If you have never been depressed you can't truly understand how it feels, and I don't wish it upon anyone.

To the OP please please speak to someone, perhaps a friend, a parent, or someone from the Samaritans they offer confidential support to anyone for free, you can phone or email and they will reply to you.
 
Oxide™ said:
no offense but this thread reeks of azab and his BS
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*eats humble pie*

Apologies Asim for doubting you.

I would seriously consider speaking to a professional to talk things out to get over this traumatic experience. You might think you are ok now but if you don't deal with this early, it will metastasis within you and cause you serious mental issues later in your life. I know it would me.
 
people's views in here are pretty shocking tbh, the point is that Asim is clearly shook up and needs some support through this time, all be it that an online forum is not the best place, i suggest you do seek professional help for this traumatic experience as oxide said.
all the best Asim, try not to tear yourself up over this too much, you did the right thing.

EDIT: btw tummy that was posted as the second post on this page lol
 
mjones1 said:
How can people be so sick to video record it, that's the shocking thing to me.
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I agree what have we come to, I mean how long was she there for and how can no one have gone up and try to see if they could talk her out of it, and why didnt the police see if she was ok...

What a broken world we live in!

Stelly
 
To be fair I may record it too, although only after calling 999 or in the knowledge that someone else had or was.

Although it's a little bit sick and pointless in this situation, one of the best things you can do if you see a crime or something the police will be later involved in is to record it.
 
I posted to criticise cheets for his incredibly tasteless video that he posted around page 5 (which got removed too). I did say "assuming that it did happen", I found it odd that no news had come through about it from any other source by that stage so I was staying on the fence about whether I believed it or not.

If that caused offence to asim then I apologise, I certainly didn't mean it to.

Perhaps if there were less fake threads written by idiots on this and other forums I've been to my first thought wouldn't have been to check the authenticity.
 
seen it happen before in torquay car park! one behind maccy d's when i was about 14 the car park was right next to a homeless centre and people used to jump from it pretty often until they knocked it down and put railings all around the car park!

i saw the guy jump but didnt see him land so wasnt really that bad!
 
I wondered what was going on yesterday with all the police and the helicopter, very sad. I must admit though when I saw the helicopter I thought it was a stabbing or something.
Sorry you had to see it as well OP, pretty harsh.
 
Talk to people about it and get it out of your system..

Also what is this crusade against the police? Only the OP was there, they make a judgement call, be it right or wrong, they are only human like most of us.. sometimes they can get it wrong too.

Its the idiot people that threaten to sue and the "i want your badge number" little chavs(that need a beating). That force these stupid rules and red tape on them even more.
 
Captain Planet said:
You sound like you know this to be actual fact. I would have thought that cushioning the blow would have greatly increased the chances of the jumper surviving.
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If you're prepared to offer your body as a landing point, then maybe, just maybe, the other person might possibly be able to survive by using your body as a crumple zone. However, they would have to land precisely on you, with their skull impacting on a part of your body that would best serve as a crumple zone. Your ribcage, I think. Of course, that would mean that their legs would be smashed to bits on the ground as there wouldn't be any of your body to be a crumple zone for them.

It would greatly increase the chances of there being two corpses rather than one.

It's basic physics. A falling adult has far too much kinetic energy. No way, now way at all, could anyone provide enough force to decelerate them to close enough to rest within a couple of feet.

A person who has fallen from the top of the seventh floor (as the newspaper reported) would be travelling at roughly 40 mph about 2 seconds later when they reach the ground. About 18 metres per second, in standard units.

You can't reduce that to close enough to zero by catching them. You'd have maybe 1.5m to do it, and most of that would be in an awkward position with only a fraction of your strength available for use. That means you'd have maybe 0.08 seconds to decelerate them from 40mph. A 60Kg mass decelerated from 40mph in 0.08s in 1.5m by the strength of one human? No way, not even close, not a chance. That's with generous assumptions regarding the distance and therefore time available.

Consider a cricket ball to give some idea of the forces involved. A cricket ball has a mass of about 0.15Kg. To have the same kinetic energy as a 60Kg person at 40mph, a cricket ball would have to be travelling in excess of 800mph.

There's just too much kinetic energy, far too much.
 
Thanks for all your kind words guys. Absolutely no offence taken from disbelievers.

Last night I couldn't sleep at all, kept thinking about the incident. But today we went Colchester Zoo and I took about 450 photos. Processing the shots will deffo get my head back on track.

Alos post 180: http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=14688224&postcount=180

...The quote says police witnessed her falling. I'm pretty sure they didnt, as they arrived two to three minutes after she fell. And there are tall buildings everywhere on all sides.


Also, I'm gonna go out tomorrow night and get totally wasted. :D
 
News reports can be inaccurate, the grammar and spelling on that one is quite poor so I wouldn't hold much faith in the ability to report facts , don't worry about it
 
It's not unusual for some sickos to shout or even chant 'JUMP' at these incidents. Whilst I've not dealt with something like this myself, plenty of my colleagues have. I've been to a couple of suicide threats/attempts at the beach this summer where slack-jawed muppets have gathered en masse to spectate, many videoing with their phones. :rolleyes:
 
well i really didnt want to say this but i am discusted with some of the comments flying about. My sister hung herself when she was young. So calling people muppets for endiing their lifes is a little bit harsh ok.
 
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