gotta say, that's pretty hilarious.

Berkeley tree-sitters should take a note of this.

Fail to see the "hilarious" in this.

Just a desperate person and a bully.

Just because you're "elderly" doesn't somehow confer extra leeway. I hope they throw the book at the old bastard.

^ The elderly person pushed the other person down because there was air mattress on the ground, so he apparently thought that guy would not be hurt. The elderly person obviously has been fed up with all these bridge jumpers that disrupt a major traffic hub for so long, and so many times. Not that I necessarily agree to what he did, but he is certainly not an old bastard.

The old bastard made assumptions regarding things he knew nothing about. People die FALLING OUT OF BED let alone falling uncontrolled for several meters onto whatever surface.

I hope they charge him with aggravated assault, or whatever the Chinese equivalent of that is. I hope he serves time.

If "these bridge jumpers" disrupt a "major traffic hub" then surely that is an issue for the city government to improve the security on that bridge.

NOT an issue for cranky old bastards to take the law into their own hands and put multiple lives at risk.

Most of lovely retirees I know here spent their youth humiliating, beating up or torturing others. Pushing someone off a bridge,that's nothing to them. Anyone who has lived here long enough knows that the old bastards are all mentally deranged, and shouldn't be surprised to see this.

Haha ha certainly one way to deal with the problem, and surely they both knew that the mattress placed below would mean suicide was out of the question once it was in place.
The question should be about the authorities charged with trying to talk him down, surely it doesnt take 5 hours to talk an attention seeker down. Also why did they not put up a fence to stop people climbing to where they can pretend to be likely to commit suicide.
The main question though, if he was frustrated by debt why didnt he just knock himself of straight away? Who cares if he threatens suicide, he survives (intentionally is seems) and he is still in debt.

what that guy did, shoving someone off a bridge, is sickening. just watch the video for yourself.

and yeah, who cares how old he is?

Jumper is a failure. Take him out of the gene pool.

gotta say, he was doing what everyone would've liked to have done- and since he's old, he figured he might get away with it. But I cannot imagine how once he got there, looking the man in the eyes, he went ahead and did it. I mean, killing someone is hard.

I would have done the same.

Well it had been five hours and who doesn't have money problems right now? That is nothing but ego and pride that he's scared to let go of. Pushing that guy off the bridge was probably the best thing that guy could have done for him. It probably made the suicidal man think some things over.

I think this old guy did the right thing. Because if the other dude was trying to commit suicide then he would have done it 5 hours before. The old man obviously knew that he wanted attention and he would most likely not jump at all so he took it to himself and threw the guy off.