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Man jumps from plane with no parachute, dies
29-year-old follows team out of aircraft with just a camera

DUANESBURG, N.Y. - A 29-year-old man leaped out of a plane at 10,000 feet with a camera but no parachute Saturday. His body was found next to a house with a damaged roof, police said. Sloan Carafello of Schenectady, who was observing on the flight, followed an instructor, student and videographer out the door, wearing no skydiving gear, officials said. Police said they did not suspect foul play but would not elaborate. Robert Rawlins, pilot and owner of the Duanesburg Skydiving Club, said he was flying the single-engine plane and had begun to close the door when Carafello jumped. His body was found next to a house west of Albany.

Death by Detergent Shakes up Japan

Mixing detergents is the new recipe for suicide in Japan

May has been a good month for detergent sales in Japan. Unfortunately, it’s also been a good month for gas masks.

The growing trend in Japan of committing suicide by cooking up a noxious brew of household chemicals has become a disaster for anyone caught upwind. People aren’t just killing themselves anymore; they’re making their neighbors sick as well.

First, the suicidal were using detergent. A rash of suicides, performed by mixing detergents with household cleaners to create toxic gases like hydrogen sulfide, culminated in mass panic earlier this month. Two people—a teenage girl in southwest Japan and a man in Otaru, a city in northern Japan—each brewed toxic gas in their homes in order to off themselves. In the process, they sickened many nearby residents and caused evacuations of the areas around their homes.

Today, things got even stranger, when a 34-year-old farmer killed himself by drinking a chlorine-based insecticide called chloropicrin. He was rushed to the hospital, but when doctors and nurses tried to save him by pumping his stomach, he vomited the poison all over them, and managed to make about 50 other people sick. Those who were exposed to his noxious upchuck developed coughs and eye sores; 10 were hospitalized. Other patients in the hospital got even sicker when the fumes wafted into their wards.

These chemical disasters are a new wave of an old problem for Japan, which had the world’s tenth highest suicide rate in 2004. To curb the collateral damage, police want to clamp down on Web sites that offer instructions to mix the chemicals. What else they could do remains unclear. U.S. officials responded to the boom in the use of drugs like methamphetamine by putting one of its main ingredients, pseudophedrine medications like Sudafed, behind the counter and requiring buyers to sign paperwork for them. But it’s harder to hide detergent behind the counter. People still need to do their laundry.

Lalanae wrote:I have no sympathy for anyone who commits suicide in such a manner as to endanger the lives of other people. He could have landed anywhere. While the odds of him landing on someone are small, landing in the middle of traffic could cause some really bad accidents. He also could have picked a more private manner of offing himself instead of traumatizing the people around him. Good riddance, I say.

Fash wrote:

Lalanae wrote:I have no sympathy for anyone who commits suicide in such a manner as to endanger the lives of other people. He could have landed anywhere. While the odds of him landing on someone are small, landing in the middle of traffic could cause some really bad accidents. He also could have picked a more private manner of offing himself instead of traumatizing the people around him. Good riddance, I say.

I have no sympathy for anyone who gets behind the wheel of a vehicle in such a manner as to endanger the lives of other people. You could have driven anywhere. While the odds of you driving into someone are small, driving in the middle of traffic can cause some really bad accidents. You also could have picked a much safer manner of transportation: your feet.

/sarcasm off

It figures you'd find some reason to criticize this guy. Boo fucking hoo.

Lalanae wrote:So you want me to feel sorry for the guy or sorry that he's no longer part of this world? He was still a douche for what he did. Careful Mid, you're starting to sound like a liberal.

bits of suicidal retard

Lalanae wrote:So you want me to feel sorry for the guy or sorry that he's no longer part of this world? He was still a douche for what he did. Careful Mid, you're starting to sound like a liberal.

If you do, then maybe you should IM Obama and have him promise to enact proper suicide legislation.

Midnyte_Ragebringer wrote:

Lalanae wrote:So you want me to feel sorry for the guy or sorry that he's no longer part of this world? He was still a douche for what he did. Careful Mid, you're starting to sound like a liberal.

You read me wrong there Lala. I don't expect anyone to feel sorry for him. I sure as hell don't. I think it would suck to have someone fall through your roof though. But, I don't expect consideration from someone commiting suicide. If you do, then maybe you should IM Obama and have him promise to enact proper suicide legislation. Maybe if someone hurts someone else while commiting suicide the family can be held liable? Sounds like liberal justice to me.

valryte wrote:

If you do, then maybe you should IM Obama and have him promise to enact proper suicide legislation.

Bitch, keep your politics out of my suicide thread! The topic at hand is, What was he thinking...

Do you make a post like this and ask "What was he thinking?" and really expect an answer?