Suicide outside my office

Twinblade · 2 May 2008 at 16:40

Just returned to the office after having someone commit suicide right outside my window.

Jumped off the roof of a car park around lunchtime. What a waste.

http://www.kentonline.co.uk/kol08/article/default.asp?article_id=41053

Amleto · 2 May 2008 at 16:42

V4NT0M · 2 May 2008 at 16:43

And so it begins

GarethDW · 2 May 2008 at 16:44

There's a quote in that article that doesn't seem right...

Mahesh Gurung said: “She fell slowly at first, then I heard this scream."

Does he mean she speeded up towards the end of her fall...? :confused:

Terrible waste, though. My sympathies go to her family.

Monkey Puzzle · 2 May 2008 at 16:44

Did he drop much loot?

Monkey Puzzle · 2 May 2008 at 16:45

GarethDW said:
There's a quote in that article that doesn't seem right...

Does he mean she speeded up towards the end of her fall...?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_acceleration

V4NT0M · 2 May 2008 at 16:47

Monkey Puzzle said:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_acceleration

Beaten

Abraham · 2 May 2008 at 16:53

GarethDW said:
There's a quote in that article that doesn't seem right...

Does he mean she speeded up towards the end of her fall...?

Terrible waste, though. My sympathies go to her family.

i'd take it as the perspective thing of it being in slow motion at the start and then he heard the scream and thud

Dingleberry88 · 2 May 2008 at 16:56

Twinblade said:
Just returned to the office after having someone commit suicide right outside my window.

Jumped off the roof of a car park around lunchtime. What a waste. [/url]

Waste that you weren't there to see it?

Akira · 2 May 2008 at 16:56

I blame GTA4

KNiVES · 2 May 2008 at 16:58

BAN LEMMINGS.

Abraham · 2 May 2008 at 17:00

KNiVES said:
BAN LEMMINGS.

lmao, right on time that has made my work day

davethe11 · 2 May 2008 at 17:01

gavindo · 2 May 2008 at 17:02

i work round the corner from were it happened

wasnt nice

Freefaller · 2 May 2008 at 17:06

I've seen a few people land and burst on the ground - it's not pleasant, especially if their ribs puncture through

Skydiving's not always fun and games.

Suicide is always so sad.

p4radox · 2 May 2008 at 17:08

Freefaller said:
I've seen a few people land and burst on the ground - it's not pleasant, especially if their ribs puncture through

Skydiving's not always fun and games.

Suicide is always so sad.

Failed parachutes or suicide?

Can't have been nice to see.

Going to Cali · 2 May 2008 at 17:09

It's such a selfish thing to do. Someone nearly killed my Sister by jumping off a building last year, I hope they're suffering now.

strudey · 2 May 2008 at 17:09

Abraham said:
i'd take it as the perspective thing of it being in slow motion at the start and then he heard the scream and thud

Even after people have posted about gravitational acceleration? If you jump off a step, do you hit the ground at the same speed as if you jump off your roof?

Voltar · 2 May 2008 at 17:11

hope they're in a better place now. rip

Aod · 2 May 2008 at 17:14

strudey said:
Even after people have posted about gravitational acceleration? If you jump off a step, do you hit the ground at the same speed as if you jump off your roof?

no. a falling body (we are ignoring air-resistance!) will accellerate at 9.80665ms^-2, which means that your speed will increase by 9.80665 meters per second, every second you are falling.

there is then Terminal velocity, which is the speed where accelleration due to gravity and the air-resistance cancel each other out, and from then untill you hit the ground your speed is constant.