Man threatens to jump from Lancashire motorway bridge (From Lancashire Telegraph)
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Man threatens to jump from Lancashire motorway bridge
8:43am Friday 10th September 2010 in Knuzden
By David Watkinson, Deputy news editor
A MAN threatening to jump from a motorway bridge caused police to put roadblocks in place early this morning.
The 31-year-old had clambered over the railings and was walking up and down the narrow ledge, police said.
He is now in hospital after police were able to talk him down from the bridge over the M65 at Stanhill Lane between Knuzden and Oswaldtwistle.
The incident saw a series of rolling roadblocks put in place at 6am and he was talked down within an hour.
The man is now being assessed at Royal Blackburn Hospital.
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happycyclist
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9:19am Fri 10 Sep 10
alby wrote:Well I think there should be units at hospitals where people who are sick of life can go to off themselves painlessly without causing any inconvenience to anyone.
another one! getting a bit daft this now. Maybe we should have a designated junction and lane these selfish morons can jump off without ruining some innocent drivers life with guilt and prevent wasting police/ambulance money.
security text jump-loan: priceless
Sign a form, get the necessary needles and drugs, administer it yourself and away you go, with no counsellors trying to talk you out of it. No mess, no investigations and hospitals are used to dead bodies.
Chris P Bacon
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9:44am Fri 10 Sep 10
happycyclist wrote:Don't be daft. What about the pressure put on the elderly or vulnerable by relatives who want a reduction in time wating to benefit from the will? All they have to do is make the person's life so miserable (that must be what it's like being around the Latin leper) they would consider the party you suggested above. Not right, won't work, won't be brought in EVER!
alby wrote:Well I think there should be units at hospitals where people who are sick of life can go to off themselves painlessly without causing any inconvenience to anyone.
another one! getting a bit daft this now. Maybe we should have a designated junction and lane these selfish morons can jump off without ruining some innocent drivers life with guilt and prevent wasting police/ambulance money.
security text jump-loan: priceless
Sign a form, get the necessary needles and drugs, administer it yourself and away you go, with no counsellors trying to talk you out of it. No mess, no investigations and hospitals are used to dead bodies.
hasslem hasslem
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10:00am Fri 10 Sep 10
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United Utilities must be putting summat in the water
happycyclist
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10:00am Fri 10 Sep 10
Chris P Bacon wrote:Re-write the will, then send the crap relatives a letter explaining why they've been written out of the will and why it's now too late to do anything about it.
happycyclist wrote:Don't be daft. What about the pressure put on the elderly or vulnerable by relatives who want a reduction in time wating to benefit from the will? All they have to do is make the person's life so miserable (that must be what it's like being around the Latin leper) they would consider the party you suggested above. Not right, won't work, won't be brought in EVER!
alby wrote:Well I think there should be units at hospitals where people who are sick of life can go to off themselves painlessly without causing any inconvenience to anyone.
another one! getting a bit daft this now. Maybe we should have a designated junction and lane these selfish morons can jump off without ruining some innocent drivers life with guilt and prevent wasting police/ambulance money.
security text jump-loan: priceless
Sign a form, get the necessary needles and drugs, administer it yourself and away you go, with no counsellors trying to talk you out of it. No mess, no investigations and hospitals are used to dead bodies.
Eventually, people will start to care about those around them and will make more effort to love others rather than only giving them a thought when they're gone.
dceuk
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10:20am Fri 10 Sep 10
happycyclist wrote:LOVE this one I think you have got it absolutely right
Chris P Bacon wrote:Re-write the will, then send the crap relatives a letter explaining why they've been written out of the will and why it's now too late to do anything about it. Eventually, people will start to care about those around them and will make more effort to love others rather than only giving them a thought when they're gone.happycyclist wrote:Don't be daft. What about the pressure put on the elderly or vulnerable by relatives who want a reduction in time wating to benefit from the will? All they have to do is make the person's life so miserable (that must be what it's like being around the Latin leper) they would consider the party you suggested above. Not right, won't work, won't be brought in EVER!alby wrote: another one! getting a bit daft this now. Maybe we should have a designated junction and lane these selfish morons can jump off without ruining some innocent drivers life with guilt and prevent wasting police/ambulance money. security text jump-loan: pricelessWell I think there should be units at hospitals where people who are sick of life can go to off themselves painlessly without causing any inconvenience to anyone. Sign a form, get the necessary needles and drugs, administer it yourself and away you go, with no counsellors trying to talk you out of it. No mess, no investigations and hospitals are used to dead bodies.
Mike Costa
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10:41am Fri 10 Sep 10
If it wasnt for the current government cutbacks, I would suggest that each town builds its own 'Suicide Bridge' away from everything else. Let the loosers jump to their deaths without inflicting their own personal Hell on everyone else
past it
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11:16am Fri 10 Sep 10
CapitaBackHander
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12:08pm Fri 10 Sep 10
something is wrong somewhere, I know of someone who actually went to hospital saying they were having terrible thoughts and that he was going to kill himself. He was not even sectioned and infact sent on his way home. He got home and jumped out of the 10th floor towerblock and obviously proved he was right! Terrible! Maybe this is what you have to do to get the help?
pez63
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12:17pm Fri 10 Sep 10
Grizzly
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3:30pm Fri 10 Sep 10
I love the irony of this one
"High Hope" :) you couldn't make it up!!
Grizzly
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3:33pm Fri 10 Sep 10
Another ironic security word, 'Lazy Bone' maybe he is?!
Chris P Bacon
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4:06pm Fri 10 Sep 10
Chris P Bacon
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4:06pm Fri 10 Sep 10
Manuel Hung
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4:33pm Fri 10 Sep 10
happycyclist wrote:Two of the most sensible comments ever posted on this forum
alby wrote: another one! getting a bit daft this now. Maybe we should have a designated junction and lane these selfish morons can jump off without ruining some innocent drivers life with guilt and prevent wasting police/ambulance money. security text jump-loan: pricelessWell I think there should be units at hospitals where people who are sick of life can go to off themselves painlessly without causing any inconvenience to anyone. Sign a form, get the necessary needles and drugs, administer it yourself and away you go, with no counsellors trying to talk you out of it. No mess, no investigations and hospitals are used to dead bodies.
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Suicidal morons p!$$**g of everyday, hard working people with stunts like this should be given every opportunity to end their miserable existence in a controlled environment.
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T955ers!!!
Mickanwar82
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6:00pm Fri 10 Sep 10
rob_ossy
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6:26pm Fri 10 Sep 10
Lancs Lassie
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6:32pm Fri 10 Sep 10
rob_ossy
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6:39pm Fri 10 Sep 10
ste.g
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6:43pm Fri 10 Sep 10
Chris P Bacon
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7:05pm Fri 10 Sep 10
Lancs Lassie wrote:There's genuine people suffering from depression and head-the-balls suffering from a demand for attention. To be gullible enough to kow-tow to these gobsh1tes is demeaning.
nice to see that you have sympathy for people suffering from depression - do you think he did this for fun - er, I dont think so
woolywords
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7:18pm Fri 10 Sep 10
I owe much; have nothing.
The rest I leave to the poor.
Statistically, it is the poorer end of the scale that goes for self-termination, as the wealthier tend to squander it on the excesses of life.
pez63
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7:43pm Fri 10 Sep 10
ClitheroeKid
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7:59pm Fri 10 Sep 10
theavenger2008
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8:34pm Fri 10 Sep 10
theavenger2008
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8:37pm Fri 10 Sep 10
ClitheroeKid wrote:well said. I support the care of anybody who feels this low.
Well I hope all of you so far (apart from Lancs Lassie) NEVER EVER find yourselves in such a desperate state that you feel that you have no option but to jump of a motorway bridge or any other place. If you do I will take great pleasure talking about (behind your back) in an unforgiving and disgusting manner and I’ll take great delight in. How would you like to be talked about like this? I trust you’d be extremely happy! What we should be doing is putting pressure on the powers that be to make sure more support is readily available for anyone who feels that they have no options left but to jump/take their own lives – or are we such an unforgiving and uncaring society that we don’t care one bit about our fellow human beings? This situation could happen to anyone! And anyone who denies that it could is living in cloud cuckoo land.
happycyclist
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9:43pm Fri 10 Sep 10
ClitheroeKid wrote:Yeah, well I have been in this position (waking up in BRI after attempting to off myself with a hosepipe attatched to a car exhaust after being thwarted by a police patrol in Roddlesworth Woods one weekday night). I'd have been happy for you to talk behind my back, but unfortunately I lived.
Well I hope all of you so far (apart from Lancs Lassie) NEVER EVER find yourselves in such a desperate state that you feel that you have no option but to jump of a motorway bridge or any other place. If you do I will take great pleasure talking about (behind your back) in an unforgiving and disgusting manner and I’ll take great delight in. How would you like to be talked about like this? I trust you’d be extremely happy! What we should be doing is putting pressure on the powers that be to make sure more support is readily available for anyone who feels that they have no options left but to jump/take their own lives – or are we such an unforgiving and uncaring society that we don’t care one bit about our fellow human beings? This situation could happen to anyone! And anyone who denies that it could is living in cloud cuckoo land.
The help you talk about is often nothing more than the help that people get from the Jobcentres to find work -ie nothing more than box-ticking. The support isn't there and even if it was that's not the bloody issue -the real issue is why people feel the need to leave this mortal coil.
For many people, life is simply too sh*t to want to carry on. I doubt you'll understand that, but take my word for it because it's the blunt truth. Society is sh*t, people are sh*t, life is sh*t.
If you don't want people to take their own lives, stop hammering people who are down on their luck and start having a bit more compassion for everyone. It's NOT the government's responsibility (to a point), but 'ordinary' people with hateful attitudes towards others that causes despondency and depression in many cases.
Tough guys don't commit suicide; sensitive people do.
ClitheroeKid asks: "Are we such an unforgiving and uncaring society that we don't care about our fellow human beings?"
Yes we are. You're in denial if you think otherwise.
happycyclist
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9:46pm Fri 10 Sep 10
theavenger2008 wrote:Many of these people don't want your 'support'. They want your help to end their lives so that they don't have to put up with people like you anymore.
ClitheroeKid wrote:well said. I support the care of anybody who feels this low.
Well I hope all of you so far (apart from Lancs Lassie) NEVER EVER find yourselves in such a desperate state that you feel that you have no option but to jump of a motorway bridge or any other place. If you do I will take great pleasure talking about (behind your back) in an unforgiving and disgusting manner and I’ll take great delight in. How would you like to be talked about like this? I trust you’d be extremely happy! What we should be doing is putting pressure on the powers that be to make sure more support is readily available for anyone who feels that they have no options left but to jump/take their own lives – or are we such an unforgiving and uncaring society that we don’t care one bit about our fellow human beings? This situation could happen to anyone! And anyone who denies that it could is living in cloud cuckoo land.
That's the bit you don't get!
happycyclist
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9:47pm Fri 10 Sep 10
theavenger2008 wrote:Well said.
Poor lad. he is now in the care of a bunch of bit#hy hairdressers at the pendleview hospital,royal blackburn. The amateur mind meddlers who harm more than they ever heal. He would have been better jumping than end up in there.
useyourhead
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10:45pm Fri 10 Sep 10
happycyclist wrote:Happycyclist, are you ok? i'm a bit concerned about you, please don't think i'm being funny/sarcastic, it's just your posts on this seem to be ... well worrying.
theavenger2008 wrote:Many of these people don't want your 'support'. They want your help to end their lives so that they don't have to put up with people like you anymore. That's the bit you don't get!ClitheroeKid wrote: Well I hope all of you so far (apart from Lancs Lassie) NEVER EVER find yourselves in such a desperate state that you feel that you have no option but to jump of a motorway bridge or any other place. If you do I will take great pleasure talking about (behind your back) in an unforgiving and disgusting manner and I’ll take great delight in. How would you like to be talked about like this? I trust you’d be extremely happy! What we should be doing is putting pressure on the powers that be to make sure more support is readily available for anyone who feels that they have no options left but to jump/take their own lives – or are we such an unforgiving and uncaring society that we don’t care one bit about our fellow human beings? This situation could happen to anyone! And anyone who denies that it could is living in cloud cuckoo land.well said. I support the care of anybody who feels this low.
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hope you are not as distressed as you are sounding?
happycyclist
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8:35am Sat 11 Sep 10
useyourhead wrote:Naw, I'm fine, no need to worry about me. But I have been there.
happycyclist wrote:Happycyclist, are you ok? i'm a bit concerned about you, please don't think i'm being funny/sarcastic, it's just your posts on this seem to be ... well worrying.
theavenger2008 wrote:Many of these people don't want your 'support'. They want your help to end their lives so that they don't have to put up with people like you anymore. That's the bit you don't get!ClitheroeKid wrote: Well I hope all of you so far (apart from Lancs Lassie) NEVER EVER find yourselves in such a desperate state that you feel that you have no option but to jump of a motorway bridge or any other place. If you do I will take great pleasure talking about (behind your back) in an unforgiving and disgusting manner and I’ll take great delight in. How would you like to be talked about like this? I trust you’d be extremely happy! What we should be doing is putting pressure on the powers that be to make sure more support is readily available for anyone who feels that they have no options left but to jump/take their own lives – or are we such an unforgiving and uncaring society that we don’t care one bit about our fellow human beings? This situation could happen to anyone! And anyone who denies that it could is living in cloud cuckoo land.well said. I support the care of anybody who feels this low.
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hope you are not as distressed as you are sounding?
useyourhead
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12:26pm Sat 11 Sep 10
happycyclist wrote:glad your ok, very emotive comments coming through for this subject, some posters are insensitive at times!
useyourhead wrote:Naw, I'm fine, no need to worry about me. But I have been there.happycyclist wrote:Happycyclist, are you ok? i'm a bit concerned about you, please don't think i'm being funny/sarcastic, it's just your posts on this seem to be ... well worrying. - hope you are not as distressed as you are sounding?theavenger2008 wrote:Many of these people don't want your 'support'. They want your help to end their lives so that they don't have to put up with people like you anymore. That's the bit you don't get!ClitheroeKid wrote: Well I hope all of you so far (apart from Lancs Lassie) NEVER EVER find yourselves in such a desperate state that you feel that you have no option but to jump of a motorway bridge or any other place. If you do I will take great pleasure talking about (behind your back) in an unforgiving and disgusting manner and I’ll take great delight in. How would you like to be talked about like this? I trust you’d be extremely happy! What we should be doing is putting pressure on the powers that be to make sure more support is readily available for anyone who feels that they have no options left but to jump/take their own lives – or are we such an unforgiving and uncaring society that we don’t care one bit about our fellow human beings? This situation could happen to anyone! And anyone who denies that it could is living in cloud cuckoo land.well said. I support the care of anybody who feels this low.
burty basset
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1:02am Mon 20 Sep 10
alby says...
8:58am Fri 10 Sep 10
security text jump-loan: priceless