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A Woman's Dodge Charger, an Attempted Suicide, & Self-absorption.

post #1 of 39
9/3/10 at 12:06am
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Read about it here:Woman Asks "Why Me?" After Her Car Breaks Man's Fall.

I really feel that this news story defies the categories listed in the dedicated threads above.

Particularly it's the self-absorption on display here that caused me to cackle like an idiot because I find this sort of stuff fascinating, sad, and confirming of my beliefs about human nature.

First there's the suicide. I've always felt that if you want to die then you should seek help. But at least have some consideration for others if you refuse to reach out for help. Don't choose to die in such a way that you run the risk of killing another person. I'm reminded of that scene in Amelie. Amelie's mother dies when a woman in the process of committing suicide falls on her.

Then there the car's owner here. After momentarily showing concern for the man who fell onto her car she decides he's and idiot; and ends up complaining about how much money she lost, after all she just had an oil change and a full tank of gas put in.

Then there is her insurance company wanting her to sue the guy who fell on her car. It's not like he'll be able to pay for it, what with the large hospital bill he will undoubtedly receive. Any sort of litigation could easily shorten this guy's life further.

Then there's the punchline. A Dodge representative tries to put a good marketing spin on everything by saying it was the Charger's "High-Strength steel structure" that cushioned the guy's fall and saved his life. Implying that cushioning deadly falls from high-rises is just one of the many advantages of buying Dodge.

Really the only person who I can truly commend in the article is the woman's husband. He not only refused the insurance company's suggestion of litigation (something it seems his wife might consider), but he also seemed to be the only one who at the end was still concerned for the man's well-being saying "he (the attempted suicide) has enough to worry about."
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post #2 of 39
9/3/10 at 12:34am
http://chud.com/forum/showthread.php?t=110172
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post #3 of 39
9/3/10 at 5:47am
I don't know, I'd be pretty pissed if it were my car. Times are tough, cars aint cheap, and for some people are a necessity. Like you said, if you're gonna kill yourself, great (okay, you didn't say that, but I will), but have some consideration for other people. I'd sue the asshole, just to make a point.
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post #4 of 39
9/3/10 at 6:04am
I wouldn't go as far as suing him but I agree. If some guy tried to kill himself but instead fell on my car and fucked it up, I'd be pissed off too!
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post #5 of 39
9/3/10 at 6:41am
I think if your gonna kill yourself you are not really thinking about the effect it will have on others. And to be honest if you are that screwed up you need help not people bitching you ruined their day.
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post #6 of 39
9/3/10 at 7:45am
It was George Costanza's car, wasn't it?
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post #7 of 39
9/3/10 at 9:26am
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Friends of the 22-year-old man whose 400-foot fall totaled McCormack’s car were “furious” over her seemingly flippant attitude. One comment in particular seemed to sum up the collective animosity: “I truly hope she steps back and realizes how foolish it is to prize a vehicle over a human life.”
Probably came from the same kind of coastal elite that wouldn't have a problem with putting the life of an animal above the life of a human.

Original story is pretty shitty but hilarious nonetheless.
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post #8 of 39
9/3/10 at 10:10am
I've always said if I was going to kill myself, I'd jump off an overpass in the middle of rush hour just to inconvenience as many people as humanly possible.

Also, I drive a Charger and I'd be annoyed if somebody landed on the back of it, too. However, I'd have the common sense to make fun of the guy to my friends and not to a reporter.
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post #9 of 39
9/3/10 at 10:35am
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Originally Posted by TzuDohNihm View Post
Probably came from the same kind of coastal elite that wouldn't have a problem with putting the life of an animal above the life of a human.
How do you come to that conclusion?
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post #10 of 39
9/3/10 at 11:40am
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Originally Posted by stelios View Post
How do you come to that conclusion?
Real estate.
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post #11 of 39
9/3/10 at 11:45am
No, I mean how do you go from what the comment said to saying that the commenter would put the life of an animal above the life of a human.
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post #12 of 39
9/3/10 at 11:49am
Rich people really love their accessory dogs.
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post #13 of 39
9/3/10 at 11:57am
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Originally Posted by stelios View Post
No, I mean how do you go from what the comment said to saying that the commenter would put the life of an animal above the life of a human.
Again, I said it in my first post, a coastal elite. I took the location, location, location(real estate) of the story and figured that the same person who said the car over human line would have no problem putting an animal over a human. Both equally ridiculous thought processes but taking the woman to task for taking pride in her possession whilst perhaps turning around and thinking some animal's rights took precedent over humans would be equally delusional.
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post #14 of 39
9/3/10 at 12:02pm
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Originally Posted by TzuDohNihm View Post
Again, I said it in my first post, a coastal elite. I took the location, location, location(real estate) of the story and figured that the same person who said the car over human line would have no problem putting an animal over a human. Both equally ridiculous thought processes but taking the woman to task for taking pride in her possession whilst perhaps turning around and thinking some animal's rights took precedent over humans would be equally delusional.
You have no reason to make this connection at all. The fact that two things are illogical/delusional does not mean that they have anything to do with each other.
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post #15 of 39
9/3/10 at 12:35pm
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Originally Posted by TzuDohNihm View Post
Probably came from the same kind of coastal elite that wouldn't have a problem with putting the life of an animal above the life of a human.
yeah is this a real post

Also, haha: A Dodge spokesman, seizing the opportunity, said it was the Charger’s “high-strength steel structure” that cushioned the man’s fall.
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post #16 of 39
9/3/10 at 12:40pm
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Originally Posted by therewillbezodiac View Post
You have no reason to make this connection at all. The fact that two things are illogical/delusional does not mean that they have anything to do with each other.
And yet I didn't connect them mostly for being illogical. But, yes, I have every reason to make it.
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post #17 of 39
9/3/10 at 12:44pm
She's materialistic and she's from the East Coast so she MUST be an animal rights wacko?

Are you serious? You're from South Carolina so you must be a racist, sister loving hick who would rather bed his family than find another woman.

Of course, I have NO REASON to think that. And you have no reason to say what you said. Quit being an asshole.
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post #18 of 39
9/3/10 at 12:49pm
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Originally Posted by therewillbezodiac View Post
Quit being an asshole.
No reason to advocate suicide here. Unless you want a new car that is.
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post #19 of 39
9/3/10 at 1:00pm
Tzu's just full of the silliness right now.
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post #20 of 39
9/3/10 at 3:55pm
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Originally Posted by Ken Savage View Post
I think if your gonna kill yourself you are not really thinking about the effect it will have on others. And to be honest if you are that screwed up you need help not people bitching you ruined their day.
It's a little bit more than ruining someone's day. We're in a really bad economic time right now and cars are extremely expensive and, for some people, an absolute necessity. Plus, he could have killed someone else.

You wanna kill yourself and can't keep from doing it by jumping, throw yourself off a bridge. But into the middle of a public street, where it was luck he just messed up a car and not another person? Fuck that guy needing help.
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post #21 of 39
9/3/10 at 4:41pm
Tzu, I trust you don't include animal rights people who would, say, advocate "inconveniencing" humans in order to save a species, right?

If I had a cat in one hand and a human in another, holding them off a cliff, I'd obviously drop the cat. (Well, unless it was my cat, then you're shit out of luck. Or... depending on the person too, I guess. But you get my point)

But are you one of these people for whom animals are just an annoyance really, and if it's between a species and your gas/water/paper/whateveritmaybe being a few bucks cheaper, you'll take the convenience over nature?

Just checking. I mean I think we all assume the answer here, just wanted to hear from you.

I'm curious what instances of "animal life > human life" you're talking about here. What life or death examples can you give? Or is it just life vs. stop being a pain in my ass?
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post #22 of 39
9/3/10 at 5:20pm
A Dodge? Guy did her a favor!


Jokes aside, hope he gets his life together.
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post #23 of 39
9/3/10 at 5:49pm
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Originally Posted by joeypants View Post
Tzu, I trust you don't include animal rights people who would, say, advocate "inconveniencing" humans in order to save a species, right?

If I had a cat in one hand and a human in another, holding them off a cliff, I'd obviously drop the cat. (Well, unless it was my cat, then you're shit out of luck. Or... depending on the person too, I guess. But you get my point)

But are you one of these people for whom animals are just an annoyance really, and if it's between a species and your gas/water/paper/whateveritmaybe being a few bucks cheaper, you'll take the convenience over nature?

Just checking. I mean I think we all assume the answer here, just wanted to hear from you.

I'm curious what instances of "animal life > human life" you're talking about here. What life or death examples can you give? Or is it just life vs. stop being a pain in my ass?
I'm confused by your first sentence, joey. Mostly I am talking about PETA-types who value animal life quite a bit over human life.

Animals aren't an annoyance to me. I don't like dogs. I find them to be shallow, needy animals. Cats are just fine in my book. I find them to be independent animals who can take care of themselves.

I'm not for speciicide but neither do I give a rat's ass about the grey-eared, one testicled tit-mouse's habitat if it happens to be an impediment to human life being expanded in the majority of cases.

Stop being a pain in my ass is much less what I am talking about than people on similar wavelengths as the Discovery Channel loon.
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post #24 of 39
9/3/10 at 6:16pm
I think we're missing the real thing learned here: all the people crying foul over the scene in The Dark Knight where Batman and Rachel land on a taxi and are all OK about it are now WRONG!
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post #25 of 39
9/3/10 at 6:31pm
I'd sad that we live in a country where someone could be expected to sue an attempted suicide case. Insurance companies should be required by law to cover such a thing. It can't happen that often, and it's monstrous to *not* cover it IMHO
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post #26 of 39
9/3/10 at 6:46pm
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Originally Posted by Princess Kate View Post
I'd sad that we live in a country where someone could be expected to sue an attempted suicide case. Insurance companies should be required by law to cover such a thing. It can't happen that often, and it's monstrous to *not* cover it IMHO
It's not sad. The guy's a douchebag. If he'd landed on the car you had to use to get to work everyday you wouldn't be so sensitive. The insurance should cover it, but the guy should be sued out of payback alone.

People get up in arms about drunk drivers (rightfully so) carelessly endangering others, how is this different? Actually, assuming the guy wasn't under the influence, its kind of worse because he willingly put others at risk.
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post #27 of 39
9/3/10 at 6:54pm
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Originally Posted by Z.Vasquez View Post
It's not sad. The guy's a douchebag. If he'd landed on the car you had to use to get to work everyday you wouldn't be so sensitive. The insurance should cover it, but the guy should be sued out of payback alone.

People get up in arms about drunk drivers (rightfully so) carelessly endangering others, how is this different? Actually, assuming the guy wasn't under the influence, its kind of worse because he willingly put others at risk.
Eh, maybe if he'd injured her in some way, but if she got a car replacement I think we shouldn't be so quick to sue each other all the time in this country. I don't agree with his actions, but I don't want to see the guy prosecuted either. I'm sure he has plenty of worse things he's dealing with. You don't need to make his recovery from a suicide attempt full of legal hassles as well
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post #28 of 39
9/3/10 at 7:03pm
If some guy almost kills me by throwing himself off a building and landing on my car, fuck everything he has to deal with already. I'd make his recovery as hard as possible, in the hopes of finishing him off. It's like that asshole a wile back that parked his car on a subway track, then pussied out and fled before the train came. A bunch of other people died as a result. Should they not have prosecuted him because he was dealing with bad personal shit?

Plenty of suicidal people were decent enough to eat a gun or hang themselves or use pills or whatever. I can sympathize with them and their families, but at the end of the day, i at least respect the fact that it was a personal choice taken up personally and which they endangered only themselves. Fuck this selfish piece of shit.
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post #29 of 39
9/4/10 at 2:38am
Vasquez, your ideas are intriguing to me, and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
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post #30 of 39
9/4/10 at 2:46am
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Originally Posted by Z.Vasquez View Post
If some guy almost kills me by throwing himself off a building and landing on my car, fuck everything he has to deal with already. I'd make his recovery as hard as possible, in the hopes of finishing him off. It's like that asshole a wile back that parked his car on a subway track, then pussied out and fled before the train came. A bunch of other people died as a result. Should they not have prosecuted him because he was dealing with bad personal shit?

Plenty of suicidal people were decent enough to eat a gun or hang themselves or use pills or whatever. I can sympathize with them and their families, but at the end of the day, i at least respect the fact that it was a personal choice taken up personally and which they endangered only themselves. Fuck this selfish piece of shit.

Agreed 100%. My father and I have been working on restoring my car for 3 years now and if this asshole landed on it trying to kill himself? Well then fuck, if he's so eager to see the other side, I'd help him get there myself.
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post #31 of 39
9/5/10 at 7:27am
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Originally Posted by TonyRockyHorror View Post
Agreed 100%. My father and I have been working on restoring my car for 3 years now and if this asshole landed on it trying to kill himself? Well then fuck, if he's so eager to see the other side, I'd help him get there myself.
Fucking A.
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post #32 of 39
9/5/10 at 8:34am
Damn, people sure love their cars.
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post #33 of 39
9/5/10 at 1:30pm
Probably came from the same kind of mid-western elite that wouldn't have a problem with putting the life of a car above the life of a human.
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post #34 of 39
9/5/10 at 2:45pm
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Originally Posted by Z.Vasquez View Post
It's a little bit more than ruining someone's day. We're in a really bad economic time right now and cars are extremely expensive and, for some people, an absolute necessity. Plus, he could have killed someone else.

You wanna kill yourself and can't keep from doing it by jumping, throw yourself off a bridge. But into the middle of a public street, where it was luck he just messed up a car and not another person? Fuck that guy needing help.

Again I think the key point here is they are not thinking straight. If they are trying to kill themselves then they are beyond the point of caring about anything except ending their lives.
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post #35 of 39
9/5/10 at 3:18pm
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Originally Posted by AlmightyShmun View Post
Probably came from the same kind of mid-western elite that wouldn't have a problem with putting the life of a car above the life of a human.
Heh.
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post #36 of 39
9/7/10 at 3:31pm
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Originally Posted by Evi View Post
I wouldn't go as far as suing him but I agree. If some guy tried to kill himself but instead fell on my car and fucked it up, I'd be pissed off too!
Yeah he'd better kill himself. For REAL this time. Amateur.
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Originally Posted by Princess Kate View Post
Eh, maybe if he'd injured her in some way, but if she got a car replacement I think we shouldn't be so quick to sue each other all the time in this country. I don't agree with his actions, but I don't want to see the guy prosecuted either. I'm sure he has plenty of worse things he's dealing with. You don't need to make his recovery from a suicide attempt full of legal hassles as well
I just hope his recovery isn't covered by insurance. Cause that just raises everyone's rates in the end.
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post #37 of 39
9/9/10 at 5:56pm
Somebody needed to teach this guy how to go out like a bad ass.

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post #38 of 39
9/9/10 at 8:46pm
Pretty sure that's stolen from Doug Stanhope.
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post #39 of 39
9/11/10 at 12:08am
I always thought jumping off a building would be a good way to end it. Falling through the sky. Almost like flying. Now I've got to worry this bitch will park her magic suicide stopping car in front of the building!
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