Tragedy

I live in a really boring small town where nothing ever happens. but today a couple of fire engines, about 3 other smaller c.d vehicles an ambulance and a crowd of people gathered around the market area of my small little-known estate. I bet you're dying to know whats going on now.

So what's going on? As I walked towards the market area, I noticed the civil defense was setting up an air bag below a block. By then it was pretty obvious what was going on. I looked to the top of the block, there was a Malay boy probably about the age of 15 ( I think) sitting on the ledge on the rooftop. about a 100 people had gathered around the area now. I proceeded past the crowd, snapping a few pictures along the way then went to get that ice-cream I was craving for since I got home.


So I got my ice-cream and came back to watch the drama unfold.
It isn't clear but you can see a figure up there, he was sitting on the ledge. I wondered what kind of thoughts the guy could be thinking. maybe he was just enjoying the wind and the view from up there and felt irritated that so many people were watching him? I stuck around for awhile to listen to what the people there were saying. Most of the people there were banglas, old people and ah bengz


I also wondered that if the guy jumped, would he land on the airbag? If he wanted to kill himself, he could just go to the other side of the block and jump. but he waited long enough for the c.d to set up airbags to cover one side of the block and (I assume) have people corner him to one side of the block up there. Then I wondered, if the guy had decided not to kill himself anymore, but would jump anyway, just to see what a 12-story fall onto an airbag would feel like. one of the aunties watching made a comment about how if he wanted to jump, he would have done so, long before the police and civil defense team arrived.

I didn't stick around long enough to see the final outcome, but my guess is that he didn't jump.