Dad Attacked After Suicide Bid With Toddler (China)

[Kadie]

A heroic save eight floors up: In Chengdu, China, 22-year-old fireman Chen Long hangs on to a 2-year-old girl after wresting her away from her father, who dangled the child out his eighth-floor apartment window and threatened to commit suicide. After police arrested the man, a crowd of onlookers attacked him for endangering the girl, who was not seriously hurt.
picture from SFGate


Dad Attacked After Suicide Bid With Toddler

Yesterday, 09:51 am

An angry crowd beat a suicidal man who threatened to jump off a ledge with his two-year-old daughter in south west China, state media have said.

More than 100 people attacked Hu Binjun in the city of Chengdu, Sichuan province, according to the China Daily.

The 34-year-old father outraged onlookers after he dangled his daughter from an eighth-floor window, the paper said.

"He deserved the beating because he was so inhumane to his own child," a woman at the scene was quoted as saying.

The suicide bid happened on Tuesday following a fight between Mr Hu and his wife over his alleged drug use, the English-language newspaper said.

As firefighters closed in, the father went inside his flat but left the child upside down on a ledge outside the window.

However, she was rescued before she could fall.

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[anigbrowl]

1. Chen Long deserves a medal for that

[dionysus]

3. .

:thumbsup:

[dionysus]

2. damn. crazy isn't confined to here i guess

[cboy4]

4. Thatta boy Chen

:thumbsup:

[Divine Discontent]

5. 1st - WTG CHEN!!!! Proof of good people in the world. 2nd, those onlookers are part of the problem

in societies like China and even more closed off and anti-progressive countries (like Iraq, Pakistan, many African countries, etc).

Attacking a mentally ill man is... insane. How about they just praise the fireman and let the authorities take the guy to the mental hospital.

[xchrom]

6. mr chen long --

:applause:

[Iggo]

7. Go, Chen Long!!!!!