“Fight
Against Stupidity And Bureaucracy”
A
lot of idiots kill themselves accidently. I’ve highlighted a few examples on
this blog of people whose stupidity led to their demise.
But
some do it on purpose.
If
they are really dumb, however, they don’t quite manage to do it the way they
had planned.
Here
are some examples.
1. Objective Attained – Method Unexpected
Frenchman
Jacques LeFevrier left nothing to chance when he decided to commit suicide.
He
stood at the top of a tall cliff and tied a noose around his neck.
He
tied the other end of the rope to a large rock.
He
then drank some poison.
Then
he set fire to his clothes.
He
even tried to shoot himself at the last moment.
The
plan seemed foolproof. Alas it was not.
As
he jumped he fired the pistol.
However,
the bullet missed him completely and instead cut through the rope above him.
Free
of the threat of hanging, he plunged into the sea.
The
sudden dunking extinguished the flames and made him vomit the poison.
He
was dragged out of the water by a kind fisherman and was taken to a hospital,
where he subsequently died of hypothermia.
There must
have been an easier way.
2. Strike another one Elvita!
One Sunday while
on a visit to the Empire State Building in New York City, Elvita Adams
clambered over an 8 foot high iron fence surrounding the observation deck at
about 8.25pm.
She jumped
off the building and plummeted earthwards.
But only for
a few feet.
A strong gust
of wind, possibly as high as 30mph, pushed her back towards the building and
she landed on a balcony on the 85th floor, with nothing more than a broken leg.
Asked why she
had wanted to commit suicide she said it was because she had been a failure at
everything she tried.
Strike
another one Elvita!
3. She Fell For Him Big Time
Back in
France again, suicides in the Eiffel Tower are apparently quite common. In fact
France has one of the highest suicide rates at 17.5 suicides per 1000 people!
Killing
yourself with the 1,063 foot “Iron Lady” is the third most popular French
suicide method behind poisoning and hanging (both of which the guy in the first
incident tried unsuccessfully).
A few times,
people have attempted to kill themselves but failed to do so. One man was blown
onto a rafter by the wind and he was spared. But the most curious case was one in
which a woman who jumped, landed on the roof of a car and later married the man
who owned it!
Boy did she
fall for him!!!
4. Taxi!
In Buenos
Aires, Argentina, a woman threw herself off the 23rd floor balcony of
the Hotel Crown Plaza Panamericano in an apparent suicide bid. However her
attempt failed when a taxi caught in traffic below cushioned her fall.
Although the
impact of her landing on the car shattered its windscreen and made a huge dent
in its roof, the impact was not hard enough to end her life.
Instead, the
30-year-old woman was left with broken hips, ribs and significant internal
bleeding.
The driver of
the taxi, Miguel Cajal, told a local TV station that he noticed policemen
stopping traffic and were looking upward. This made him instinctively jump out
of his car.
“I got out of the car a second before. If I had not
got out, I would have been killed,” the BBC quoted him as saying. The impact, he added, “made a terrible noise.”
