There's a guy outside my window who's been threatening to jump all night!

After the jump that was what stuck in my mind, I actually went back to look at it. You try to interpret it. Is that the abyss staring back, or is it a belly full of booze?

or HIM.
-- nate detritus (n***p*****550...), December 6th, 2003.

Classic one-two punch of this whole thread. Real Abbott-Costello type shit. Genius. I'm sure the reason he was on that roof was because his iMac was on the fritz. Wocka wocka.

Black humor is a necessary part of coping with life. You laugh to keep from crying. It doesn't make you insensitive or inhumane or a shit in general. It's not like anyone here was on the street itself laughing and pointing and throwing rocks at him.

there's someone across my (new) house threatening to jump again.

firetrucks have blocked off the whole street. i even saw a cop w/a shotgun!

There's a guy outside my window who's been threatening to jump all night!

wouldn't he get tired?

I rewatched Best in Show on Sunday and I forgot the guy whose job was talking people down from suicides. "They always jump." Later his son's on the roof & he's yelling things at the kid like "I will shove my thumb in your eyeball until it's jelly!" OH MY GOD the laughs.

Jumpers never make the news.

I think these things aren't usually published to prevent copycat suicides, which are a sad but true thing.

There was a guy in Manchester (UK) quite a few years ago on top of department store threatening to jump. The crowds were treating it like a day out, shouting jump and laughing. Quite a bizarre moment really 1st time you see it.

jaxon, maybe it’s a sign, maybe you have to dedicate your life to save jumpers?

i even saw a cop w/a shotgun!

What's the thinking there? Don't jump or we'll shoot?

That's the plot of an episode of Sledgehammer!, isn't it?