Cebu City, Philippines
​A man was about to jump from the 10th story of LUYM building in Praridel Street, Cebu City on January 29, 2018 in an attempt to kill himself.
Scenes like that always drew a huge crowd.
​ ​But rescuers and negotiators fortunately, was able to change his mind and did not pursue his plan to end his life. But the incident went on for about 2 hours or more with crowds gathering to witness the incident. Traffic in the area was rerouted causing headaches to commuters. ​The man was seen standing on the ledge of the building ready to jump any moment while negotiators, who were on the same floor, were doing their job. On the ground below, fire truck ladder was raised few meters below the man with two rescuers on board who also tried to talk him out of the situation.
​The crowd got larger
as time passed by, and were growing impatient. One thing shocked me though. From time to time, I heard the rudeness and the insensitivity of few people around me. They said the guy was just making a scene and just wanted to be famous, and that he never really wanted to jump off because he could have done it right away without creating a huge crowd, and worst I heard was that they were already impatient and wasting much time watching him up there causing neck pain already so they wanted him to jump off to end the drama. I couldn't believe all I heard, that those people had no empathy whatsoever, cruel and very insensitive. But in my case, I prayed many times during the whole time while taking footages with my smartphone because I never wished to capture him jumping off the ledge and ending on the ground hundreds of feet below with broken bones and fractured or crushed skull, and internal and external bleeding, with blood all over the place. That would mean trauma for me for the rest of my life! Thank God for all time to come that the man was convinced to stop his plan to die and the suicide attempt was successfully intervened. It was a great job by the negotiators and rescuers of Cebu City, Philippines.
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