Showing posts with label suicide. Show all posts
Showing posts with label suicide. Show all posts

Thursday, 30 June 2016

Skyway Bridge

This website keeps a check on the Skyway Bridge in Florida.  It has a very high rate of suicides and here you can find a live report of the attempts, success and saves of the people going there to jump.  It does make for grim reading but hey, that's what this blog is about.



If this is something you find interesting though, there is also a documentary called The Bridge which can be found on Netflix.  This is about the same kind of thing but at The Golden Gate Bridge.



Thursday, 23 June 2016

Elisa Lam - The girl in the water tank

On February 19th 2013 the naked body of 21 year old Elisa Lam was found in the water tank on the roof at The Cecil Hotel in LA. Residents had been complaining that the water was running slow, had an odd taste and was looking a little brown so the tank was checked and there she was.

She was last seen alive on January 21st and once she was found they checked over the video from the lift and found this.  No one has been able to pin down exactly what she is doing or why but the theories are all over the net.  The most accepted one is some kind of mental episode due to her background with depression and bipolar disorder and the four medications she was taking for it.  It was ruled that she died of accidental drowning which they do believe was most likely self inflicted.



There are still a lot of questions around the case though as to how she managed to get up there to the roof, how she managed to get in the tank and how she managed to drown in it unassisted.  Some people believe there is someone unseen in this video that is the cause of her freak out while others have suggested demonic possession.  There are even conspiracy theories about her being involved in something to do with Tuberculosis research as the vaccine for it is called Lam-Elisa.  Thoughts?



Saturday, 18 June 2016

Bjork's would be killer - failed but still tragic

This video is a very long one and a very harrowing one.  I remember this is the news when it all came out.  A guy who was suffering some kind of metal break down had decided that he loved Bjork so much and hated black people so much that it was unacceptable for her to be seeing Goldie.



He decided this was a good reason to send her an acid bomb in the post and then kill himself.  He filmed many, many hours of footage of himself setting everything up and then even filmed the final act.  His body was found along with all the evidence of what he had done in enough time to stop the package reaching Bjork.

The man who did this was named Ricardo Lopez and it's very clear he needed help and a lot of it.  This video is a compilation of his videos to show the main parts of what he captured.  It runs for 104 minutes and yes I have sat through every moment of it.  I can't embed it here, it won't accept the code but the link is below.