Dad Attacked After Suicide Bid With Toddler

[AllanF]

Another case of mob rule in China. Again regardless of politics mob rule is something that should never be allowed to happen. Though after reading this my knee jerk reaction was 'kick the crap out of him'...that said if we want to live in a civilized society then these things can not happen.

Dad Attacked After Suicide Bid With Toddler

Thursday, July 9 09:51 am
© Sky News 2009

An angry crowd beat a suicidal man who threatened to jump off a ledge with his two-year-old daughter in south west China, state media have said. Skip related content

More than 100 people attacked Hu Binjun in the city of Chengdu, Sichuan province, according to the China Daily.

The 34-year-old father outraged onlookers after he dangled his daughter from an eighth-floor window, the paper said.

"He deserved the beating because he was so inhumane to his own child," a woman at the scene was quoted as saying.

The suicide bid happened on Tuesday following a fight between Mr Hu and his wife over his alleged drug use, the English-language newspaper said.

As firefighters closed in, the father went inside his flat but left the child upside down on a ledge outside the window.

However, she was rescued before she could fall.

Firefighter Chen Long told the paper how he had urged Mr Hu to be calm in the interests of the child before deciding to try to snatch her by force.

"But when I slid from the ninth floor to the eighth, the man was alerted. He jumped into the bedroom but placed the baby upside down outside the window," Mr Chen said.

Firefighters in the apartment diverted Mr Hu's attention while Mr Chen slid down to the eighth floor and rescued the baby, before blocking the father's suicide attempt.

"When the man jumped onto the windowsill and was about to jump off the building, I pushed the window and cops inside the bedroom were quick enough to capture him," Mr Chen added.

A mob set upon Mr Hu when police took him outside the building, the report said, without saying how badly he was hurt.

The former bus driver is currently unemployed and had recently started taking drugs, which led to quarrels, his wife Wang Xingxin reportedly said.

[edededed]

Well - uncivilized though it is, it may act as a deterrent for other people from acting the same way... (Also good that he seems to have been beat (only), not worse than that.)

[cerebus]

Sometimes, some people do need to be beaten...

[Steve James]

This reminds me of what Dmitri said about a "collective intelligence." From the biological perspective, baby-killing is frowned upon in most societies ... for obviously self-serving reasons. I don't think this is an example of deterrence (or deterrent justice). It's more like community outrage. Yeah, it is "mob justice," though.

[Darth Rock&Roll]

China has methbillies?