In San Diego setting up a "Kick-Ass 2" promotion at Comic-Con, three stuntmen came to the rescue of a distressed, suicidal woman threatening to jump from a 14-story apartment balcony.
The woman's green shorts get-up was originally mistaken for an attempt at guerilla marketing to promote "Kick-Ass 2", a movie that features it's hero wearing a similar ensemble. But when the woman, described as drunk and distraught over a breakup, climbed over the railing sans harness, bystanders and neighbors realized she intended to kill herself.
"Don't do it! Don't jump!" they yelled to the woman as police and firefighters responded to the scene.
Before cops could get there, the three stuntmen scaled a fence and entered the apartment complex where they got the OK to head upstairs. They found the unidentified woman's apartment unlocked, and sneaked through so the woman wouldn't hear them. As they approached, "she was hanging on [THE BALCONY]with one hand, and had one foot off the ledge," Carver told ABC.
"She was ready to go," Gregg Sargeant told KERO-TV.
The team made it out on the balcony and Sargeant wrapped her in a bear hug as Carver and Scott Schecter secured her in a harness. The crowd below burst into applause and cheers as she was pulled in safely.Apparently she had just had a breakup and was drunk, which may have been what pushed her to climb out there in the first place.
"She just kept saying, 'I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry,' over and over again," Carver said. "She was very distraught."
I have no sympathy for people that try to kill themselves. Such a selfish act.
If she wanted to end it she would have just jumped. Clearly it was just a "Cry for help"
The Kick Ass producers should be ashamed of themselves for staging a suicide attempt as a publicity stunt
1:07 i wonder if they guy got turned on from having his hands so close to her boobs. His arms are literally right under them !!!
Glad that woman was saved, I think I would want that if I was suicidal like her.
Annnnnd... some of the comments on youtube are straight up ignorant.QuoteI have no sympathy for people that try to kill themselves. Such a selfish act.QuoteIf she wanted to end it she would have just jumped. Clearly it was just a "Cry for help"QuoteThe Kick Ass producers should be ashamed of themselves for staging a suicide attempt as a publicity stunt
Publicity stunt? Really? What company in their right mind would want to stage something like this and terrify people? It would be a disaster for that crew's business.Quote1:07 i wonder if they guy got turned on from having his hands so close to her boobs. His arms are literally right under them !!!
She was hanging of the damn railing! How else were they going to grab her and yeah what you said was perverted.
Gah! Some people are just so damn insensitive, but what really gets me is how some of them are mocking this suicide attempt. Apparently some think it's funny or something.
Because it's YouTube, they have the second largest population of assholes living by the GIFT.
Because it's YouTube, they have the second largest population of assholes living by the GIFT.
GIFT?
Because it's YouTube, they have the second largest population of assholes living by the GIFT.
GIFT?
Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory.
I am truly glad that ended well. Congratulations to the men who rescued her.Agreed. I mean, I've been there. I've been talked out of it several times. Anyone who thinks it's the coward's way out deserves some kind of trauma.
It makes me angry that the people who write those comments don't understand what being suicidal is all about. The one that annoys me the most is the people who say that committing suicide is the cowards way out or the easy way out. They don't understand that to try and commit suicide is one of the hardest things to do ever, every instinct in our bodies is for self preservation and to be hurting so much to actually even try and overcome that is a feat in its own right.
I wonder what the guy who was on the balcony below was saying. It looked like he was trying to persuade her to get back inside, but I would like to know his version of the story. It could be interesting.