Police express "disgust" at crowd encouraging Shaun Dykes to jump

what a tragedy...my prayers to the family of the child

OF COURSE WE HAVE TO BLAME THE POLICE!!! AFTER 3 HOURS THEY COULD NOT CLOSE THE AREA!!!

POLICE ARE HERE TO PROTECT OTHERS AGAINST IDIOTS AND CRIMINALS. BOTH COMMIT THE SAME CRIMES!

A half million bail and some 10 years on Prison and full media coverage will teach some people.

3 hours of negotiating and they didnt have a safety net in place???

sounds like the system failed him as well

darwin didnt though

What in the hell is this world coming to? I think people are really becoming desensitized. Its really sad.

kidzulu,

Do you have a heart...sounds like you don't.
This kid was having a difficult time and the crowd didn't care.

You don't either.

I sincerely hope, that when you have a difficult time in life and you will that there are people around who are more compassionate than you are.

its really sad that anyone will even have a hint to say that he should jump. this shows that sum people dont respect life like they should.

I guess this some what proves how desensatised we truly are. Whats coming around the corner, the next great depression will change us that survive forever and all I can say is I hope it's for the better.

I was at a multi-kegger back in college (in like '93) that got WAY out of hand and something similar to this happened, but with a much different ending.

Some depressed drunk dude climbed a water tower wanting to kill himself, but no one noticed until the police, fire, everyone showed up. Then close to 1,000 people, my drunken self included, started chanting "Jump Motherfucker, Jump Motherfucker Jump", to the tune of "Jump" by The Movement (it was a popular club song at the time). Some people even started dancing while the chanting was going on.

Turns out, the climb to the top of the water tower completely exhausted the suicidal drunk guy, so he decided to lay down and rest a minute before killing himself. He was so drunk, though, that he passed out.
lol Good times.

wheres the roman colloseum to entertain these buffoons? are we still that barbaric? i doubt they would have yelled jump if it were their brother, their friend, their neighbor. but the fact is that he was all of those to someone else. its not right to encourage someone to do something like that... would they have yelled for him to shoot if he had a gun at someone else's head? I hope not. I don't think the crowd should have to go to jail but they should definitely think about getting some psychotherapy/ sensativity training.

This is unbelievable, people have actually become so unhuman that they would do such a thing, I find it incredible these people should be the ones to be jumping off the buildings. The world is in sad shape when it comes to something as shocking and unhuman goes unpunished, if there is now law to cover this there sure ought to be.

Are you telling me that within that small crowd there was no one willing to become the voice of reason? No one to tell them what they were doing was wrong? Are we so de-sensitized that a distraught young man who is attempting to commit suicide earn "Jump" chants instead compassion and concern?

Once again, I am ashamed to be a part of the human race. Every one of those insensitive bastards should be in jail right now.

Like I said in the other article about it.... what do you expect from people these days? If he wants to be selfish and kill himself in front of people then, I'm sure many cold hearted people will tell him to jump. Sad but reality....

The problem is that everyone who thinks that they should chastise the people there are just falling into the media's plan. Reality is that the POLICE did NOT do their job. As someone else stated- THEY HAD 3 HOURS. In that time block off the street and put in a pad, net, trampoline, float, hell even a sheet. Ample time to do so, ample time to try and talk down. They did neither, so use the media to make the public seem at blame. Draw the emotion factor instead of the logic factor and pit the people against the people, not people against the law enforcement at fault. Its politics.

And to the guy who is using suicide as scientifically proven, chemical problem as a reason, well then continue to use science to the next step and realize that if science is changing chemicals to kill off population its called evolution. The strong survive for a species to flourish. Its probably sounds cold, but thats also using science in a realistic view.

OMG i cant believe that were most people would be shocked and horrified, these people chose to be dumb pricks who see a human tragedy as an entertaining show.

if i was there i probably would have jeered as well. suicide is stupid and selfish, especially if your gonna be a narcissist and cause a big scene

Reason #1 fed up with the world Reason #2 fed up with the world.. Butttttt dont think he did it because he was egged on by some thrill seeker losers..He just felt it was time.. Wrong move though I believe. It should be up to god when its your time to go

are pple living in the land of video games? if you die you got 5 lives left so no biggie ...the reality of this is so tragic..this person is gone now..cant get his life back...no one realized that as they were shouting...my god!

They should have been arrested. I understand that no one has any control over any one elses actions, but any decent human being should know when enough is enough. There comes a point when the "joke" crosses the line and the prankster becomes a criminal.

Perhaps the police should adopt a policy of blocking off the streets in this type of situation and keep the onlookers at bay... This is so sadly ugly.

My friend jumped from the sixth floor at the mall last month. Pictures were posted on Myspace, people joked about it, I'd lost all my faith in humanity and was just beginning to regain it and then this happens.

My friend's death hasn't stopped hurting, and the publicity of it just makes it ten times worse. The same thing happened, cops spent 45 minutes trying to convince him to save himself. People watched him standing on the ledge, and didn't do anything to stop him. I blamed the cops and I blamed the mall, he wasn't the first person to jump there and they should have had some sort of safety net up by that time. I've learned that there can't always be somebody there to play hero.

My heart goes out to his family and friends. I have been where they are and wouldn't wish this kind of depression on anyone else.

I blame the cops.

why?

easy.

he was up there for THREE HOURS during negotiation.

MORE than enough time to get either a trampoline,
or a stunt landing platform or ever god-damned cardboard
boxes setup so even if he did jump, he would not
die. they did nothing to save him, they were so confused
and distracted by the crowd that they failed at their job.

What a vulnerable, suggestive state that guy must have been in to be so pro-actively suicidal. And to hear those horrible taunts.... they literally pushed him over the edge. How will those people sleep at night? How will they live with themselves?

crowds are dangerously stupid.
people stop thinking for themselves.

Thank you petarro. There should be accountability.

Suicide is caused by mental illness which has been identified by our international scientists as a biological and chemical brain disorder that causes depression. It is sometimes successfully treated with medication, but not always.

The biology was proven over 25 years ago. The fact that people still remain tragically ignorant of this indicates how we have squandered the gift of scientific investigation in our world. We have also squandered the gift of free public education.

We squander that by allowing partisan interests to eliminate science based learning because of religious ideology, resulting in blind ignorance of human and planetary biological functions and connections. This is why it took until now for most people to understand the reality of global climate crisis. It is also why we are able to go through life without compassion for others when they suffer from something like depression.

There are some researchers who have come to believe that depression can cause such strong impulses to end your life that your free will loses the ability to resist. In other words it may be that some who commit suicide actually do so against their own will.

I hope there is reincarnation, and that the people who jeer at the agony of others will one day experience the despair for themselves. Or better yet, may they be the spouse of one who looses the battle.

But then, the small minded ones with hearts of stone may just be incapable of compassion, and that alone is their curse.

In terms of creating a civilized world for our children to grow in, we must demand accountability for such cruelty. Those who jeered at the pain of another should be made to serve others until they develop some compassion, or at least be punished by having their nature exposed to their community. Maybe that way, at least they would not be likely to breed.

The people in the crowd are not responsible, but the lack of respect for another human life is disgusting.

I've almost lost all hope for this world.

People are sick. Only addicted to what brings pain and causes drama and distress in our lives.

They should be accountable, perhaps second degree murder.

Wow, I can't believe people do that kind of shit. Its despicable.

The more people you gather in a group, the more pathetic morons you get.

I hate crowds.

Are we so desensitized and starved for reality entertainment that we are now happy enough to sit there and encourage our fellows to jump to their doom, just so we can get an extra few hits on youtube?

Everybody dies.

It's sad what happened seriously one has to look at what drove this person to this point. Lack of family support? Lost a loved one? Thats the real tragedy that his close friends and family didn't find a better way to save from this destiny.

Oh my god. first i thought the story about the old man who got ran over, and laid there as bystanders did nothing was the worst i'd ever hear. Then it was the story about the guy on the bus who brutally beat another guy as bystanders did nothing. that seemed worse. But this defiantly take the cake! how could people CHEER for this man to jump, and take his life! what is this society coming to?!
If i were there, i would be the one getting arrested. i'd lose it!!

What a horrible thing to have witnessed. Seeing someone jump to their death would haunt me forever.

why should the jeering crowd be arrested? is there an english law against that?

i personally believe that people who commit public suicide are out to do harm to others and deserve no pity even if they're english.

This is tragic. Think about this young man and what may have driven him to this point in the first place.

How could a human see this and encourage him to commit suicide, yelling "jump"? I wonder if they can live with themselves now. Such a disgusting, evil and selfish thing to do.

Condolences to his family and friends.

"Do a back-flip!"

It is like the angel on your right shoulder and the devil on the left. The angel is telling you not to do it but the devil is telling you to go ahead. So it seems that the devil on the left shoulder won this one. Jump or don't jump? That is the question.

Who exactly is the "dumbass" here? The clearly depressed and mentally unstable suicide risk? Or the people in the crowd who encouraged him to jump?

I would argue that the crowd was more mentally unstable and dangerous than the boy. And the dumbasses are the police who didn't arrest them.

again?

What a dumbass.

This is such a sad story. I heard somebody on the radio comparing it to a modern day public hanging.

I've seen kids filming car crashes before, but this just takes the biscuit.