The New Year bells had hardly stopped tolling, when something outwardly tragicomic but inherently disturbing happened in Chengdu, Sichuan.
On Tuesday (1/2) morning, a young woman was contemplating jumping off a six-story building. It took the police and firefighters five hours to talk the emotional distressed out of it and move her to safety.
But that made some people very unhappy — some onlookers who had gathered on the street to witness the crisis. According to press reports, many of them “held out their necks as if they were ducks dangling from someone’s hands.”…[Full Text]