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Man Leaps To Death After Girlfriend Refuses To Stop Shopping
Whether an unintended consequence of the push for over-consumption of the Chinese consumer or simply a man hitting his breaking point (as many Americans - we are sure - have considered in the last few weeks), 38-year-old Tao Hsiao lept to his death from a 7th story walkway in a Jiangsu mall after his girlfriend would not stop Christmas shopping. The 5-hour marathon 'consumption' ended badly after Tao's girlfriend said he was "spoiling Christmas," when he chided her that she "already had enough shoes...it was pointless buying more." He died on impact, and no one else was injured. It is unknown if his girlfriend continued shopping...
When his girlfriend insisted on prolonging their Christmas shopping marathon, 38-year-old Tao Hsiao leapt from a seventh-story walkway and killed himself in a Jiangsu shopping mall.
Tao and his girlfriend (whose name has not been released) had reportedly been in the Golden Eagle International Shopping Center, in Xuzhou, for some five hours before a rather routine relationship scuffle escalated drastically out of proportion.
Tao told his girlfriend that "she already had enough shoes, more shoes that she could wear in a lifetime and it was pointless buying any more," according to a witness. Tao was then accused of "spoiling Christmas," and the shouting match likely would have continued had Tao not chosen that moment to hurl himself over the seventh-story balcony.
Tao fell through elaborate christmas decorations and crashed into a shopping stall on the mall's ground level, injuring no one but himself in the process. He died on impact.
It brings a whole new meaning to the term "shop til you drop"...but Tao's last words do ring horribly true in this age of over-consumption
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shop 'til you drop
LOL, China is fast becoming a basket case of Capitalism on Steroids
Like I say.
Work work work, so you can shop shop shop, we are going to do it tell we all fuckign drop, this dude just got a head start.
As the husband of a horse woman, I can empathize with him.
I've actually come close to jumping myself after being drug around a crowd filled mall for hours
Do these people even know who Christ is? Not that I'm knocking on doors evangelizing, but what are they celebrating again?
I tried the same thing but on the way down, my wife bought matching air bags
Trying to look at this from a more compassionate, personal note: I think this guy obviously had other issues in his life going on than a girlfriend on a an uncontrolled shopping spree.
It's sad no matter which angle one considers the story.
Really, I think he died
for a worthy cause.
The girl - on the other hand - must be glad
she can go on shopping unopposed now.
Good for her! He was such a bore to shop with anyway, I am quite convinced...
No Wan Shoo? Yu Go Wei!
Ditch the bitch.
Ditch her hell, I would have thrown her off the balcony before throwing myself off.
Not worth dying for or going to jail/executed for murder...Harlequin001 had it right...should have just kicked her ass out!
"Really, I think he died
for a worthy cause.
The girl - on the other hand - must be glad
she can go on shopping unopposed now."
This calls for funeral shoes!
..the story is a couple of weeks old, but a good one.
I can empathize.
What a waste of good judgment. A man that sensible ought to have simply disappeared, and opened a Chinese restaurant in Zihuatanejo. Kind of like the end of The Shawshank Redemption.
"Run up his fucking credit card while the body is still warm!"
Don't put in a time of death until the cards are maxed!
It's the sadddest at 90 degrees perpendicular to the ground.
All I can hope, for his sake and ours, is that wherever he is now, he is not subject to more shopping.
If you think that's bad the suicide bombers are wandering around cloud malls with 72 virgins shopping. Hell indeed.
http://www.rooshvforum.com/thread-30954.html
Most women already come with matching air bags???
Yeah but in China the equipment is usually small.
I disagree. I call chinese women "orange tree" I am amazed at such large fruit hanging from such a slim branch.
6 for technical and 10 for style
holyshit maxxx that was toooo funny! you guys kill me.
it does not matter...........there is lots of debt(credit) to be handed out in china
Okay, okay, I'll repeat what I said before on the matter:
Shop till you drop!
Shop till your bf drops!
Good. Now I have a precedent to refer my gf to: "I feel like I need some air ..."
Oh, that won't hurt the economy. Men never buy anything anyway ...
And now:
She's pissed that she has to buy one less present.
Can she collect on his life insurance policy...so she can go buy some more shoes?
Who bought the dip?
You still think Christ has anything to do with the holiday called "Chistmas" any more?
Christ has never had anything to do with the holiday called "Christmas".
Its roots are in Babylonian paganism, and simply got 'christianized' by the church of Rome.
Christmas marks the start of the new solar year.
Whats the shortest day of the year (in terms of daylight)? December 21/22. It actually is equally short on the 23 and 24th as well, and thus, AFTER THREE DAYS, on the 25th, hours of daylight starts increasing again, every day, until June 21.
You are correct.
I believe Christ was born in the fall.
http://www.examiner.com/article/when-was-jesus-christ-really-born
Happy Sun worshiping all!
WRONG. Christmas was adopted from Yuletide (Yule meaning wheel or the turning of the season), a Germanic pagan winter/solstice celebration. Santa Clause is a representation of Odin(Woden), the leader of the Wild Hunt.
No, but, at least there exists some tieback to actual historical events (of course interwoven with the various seasonal and/or pagan festivities). Are they even making up a traditional Chinese tie in, or are they just posting up red decorations and telling every one, "be happy double lucky buy buy buy golden piglet feast"?
Saint Nickoraus was Chinese!
Possibly relevant supporting information - the origins of Christmas certainly pre-date the origins of Christianity - http://www.essortment.com/christmas-pagan-origins-42543.html
Who actually celebrates Christ when they shop?? Fuck off with your religious bullshit ParkAveFlasher
That's festive, too.
You shouldn't be doing drugs, then.
No matter how drugged you are,
do not jump yourself in public.
There is more to life then working to consume.
A real horse woman wouldn't be caught dead in those kinds of shoes. On the shopping in general, you're spot on.
That's a lot of horse manure (that somebody's gotta deal with).
Horse manure in the blood.
I've been there. Fortunately for me, I don't live in a big city, so all of the malls around here are only one story.
Waiting for the GF's selfie on Twitter: "OMG, my stoopid BF just ruined Xmas!" >:-(
"...but I got a GREAT DEAL on these shooz!"
Wi tu por
Consumerism is just another form of narcissism.
<A rather expensive form at that.>
Summed that up nicely sir.
Bitches be shoppin!
(MsCreant and Miffed excluded)
how does the narcissistic masochist deny themself?
.
By returning all purchases the next day.
no, that would be the bulemic narcissist
the masochist narcissist would only take a maxed out credit card to shop with
nice
by flogging someone else.
He should've taken her with him. --> Shop till we drop.
And in so doing, made her his BFF (Broken Flat Friend).
This man did what all men have considered doing at one time or another. The fact this all manifested over shoes, of all things, makes even more sense. This guy was all balls..
His name was Tao Hsiao.
Well I can't speak for "all men", but for myself, I can truly say that I have never thought of jumping off a tall building over my wife's shopping habits.
(Of course, it helped that as a young man, I married a common sense girl who did not think happiness was measured by materialistic enterprises).
That's like finding a unicorn with a lisp.
+1 but I'm not sure why.
His name was Tao Hsiao
It is true that for the most part the world has not functioned under the concept of rare or limited resources for a very long time and hence the "on Steroids."
Paper ("fiat") has provided the perfect illusion of infinte resources. Most people especially in cities don't even know where their water and power comes from. They tend to assume that in today's modern world there should be many services provided by their society.
I can only offer 2 comments:
1) the imbalance of men versus women in china probably gives newly liberated next generation young women an inordinate amount of leverage in relationships. That being the case, expect more renditions of "it's raining men."
2) some years ago I was in a ground floor store in Eaton's Centre in Calgary. unbeknownst to me, 4 floors up some miscreants were fucking around and had put a guy's backpack out on a ledge. When he went to get it he fell. He landed about 10 feet from me and the folks I was with and I can tell you between the sight, sound, the shockwave you felt and "pile of guy" factor, seeing that should not be on anyone's bucket list, unless they have some sort of crossed wiring in their brains.
HAppy fukkin holidays. p.s. the shitter's full
I almost made it to canada one time, but the gas money gave out in Gurnee !!!
one of the best movies eva !!!
Should have pushed the girl.
Chinese women are very aggressive. Men in China often do the house work, cooking included, and domestic violence is on them and not the women. Mao did do a lot for women's rights.
If you've got yellow fever, I would go Thai, Filipino, Korean And Japanese in that order. The Chinese girls, especially the mainlanders, will just beat the shit out of you.
Wait, you're talking about American women, right?
I'm sorry......there is NO pussy in the world good enough to kill oneself over.
Well......then again.......
http://www.cryptomundo.com/wp-content/uploads/raquel-welch-one-million-y...
http://shadowsfall.org/mandogandgun/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/raquelwel...
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b231/conditionfreak/raquel-welch-in-sh...
http://entertainment.wagerweb.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/raquel-welc...
Who's Raquel Welch? Oh yeah, she was in that Shawshank Redemption movie.
Maybe we could set his ex up with some bankers?,...
Central Bank Employees Leap to Death After Nation Refuses To Start Shopping
We, as a planet, should be so lucky...
It aint gonna happen, 7 billion little bitches out there most programmed to work work work so they can shop shop shop, and unless you weren't conditioned right, you will never fucking stop.
um, isn't it nag nag nag you to work work work so they can shop shop shop?
that's carrying the Xmas spirit of turning the other cheek very far!
No, no, no...as the man said : the commies only believe in dialectical materialism.
Ok! Now I get it !
Some dialectics!
'Tis the Season to be Jolly... (Black Friday Zombies) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5phphiV7kzM
Do you think she bought a sympathy card?
@U4
The really 2010's kinda of thing to do would be to start a non-profit charity, bother the fuck out of everyone because of or your loved one had some special problem and get NFL football teams to wear your charity's special color a la Susan G. Komen.
"Do you think she bought a sympathy card?"
Maybe sympathy shoes.
Only if she had coupons.
He's definitely in a better place.
Someone's gonna have a serious gilt trip there
If he wanted to hurt her he should have taken the shoes along for the ride.
A hacksaw taken to at least one heel per pair would have been more effective.
I am 100% sure she will be able to rationalize why this wasn't her fault.
If he wold have just relaxed and opened his wallet and his heart to the spirit of zombie Christmas...
Did she physically push him?
If not he chose to be with her.
Dumb ass should have pushed her instead.
I guess that is her fault too.
Review the video tapes. Did he jump or was he pushed for being a tight ass? One thing I've found out is you don't fuck with a girl's shoes, or purses for that matter.
[quote] One thing I've found out is you don't fuck with a girl's shoes, or purses for that matter. [/quote]
Unless you're into that sort of thing (not that there's anywhting wrong with that!)
Follow your bliss!
Au contraire. Want a woman to leave? Pick up her purse and chuck it outside. She will go for it. Bolt doors and windows and congratulate yourself on not being a victim of a domestic violence charge.
It's beginning to look alot like Christmas.
He died of 'Consumption'.
That's good! LOL
Friend's wife comes how with her SUV packed full of Chinese crap singing "but I saved us so much money!"
Tao Hsiao weighed his options, argue with his zombie cow or pull the pin and see what comes next. Good for you sir, good for you.
@mumcard
Bitch wouldn't undertand anchor pricing if it landed on her foot.
Hope she has some suitable shoes for the funeral.
Like I said before, I sympathize with the guy, I've had the same feeling. Still, seems he could have just split with her.
Throw her over, so to speak, heh, heh, heh...
They never have enough shoes, he wasn't properly prepared to be a boy-friend.
I'm sure that any man who has been asked to accompany his SO into the madness that is a weekend at a shopping mall around Christmas understands perfectly the need which drove this poor guy to end it.
Stop the Shopping, I want to get off!
The girlfriend will probably get a bill for the cleanup and breakage. Melly Clistmas!
Please realize that it's the L that the asians have a difficulty pronouncing, not the R.
You remind me of people screaming bear trap when they mean bull trap.
If we all had any real courage we'd all follow the Tao.
Edit: My down-voter has likely been blessed with never having dated a girl with a shoe habit.
Paraphrasing George Carlin: BuyThe only value Amorikans have is buying things.
Sale, sale, sale! Come on down to Spatula City! Prices are though the floor!
http://tinyurl.com/24tcup
The GF must be shopping for shoes for the funeral.
I’m sure his wife will become very sad about this if she ever stops shopping, or notices he had the credit card in his pocket.
Now it truly has become a ghost mall.
Not hitting anyone in the fall shows talent. He's done this before.
It's raining men, halelujah!
For some reason I didn't expect Chinese culture to be broken as quickly as America's.
It is unknown if his girlfriend continued shopping...
I'm sure she stopped briefly, at least. Then all the black clothes she must have needed, she'd HAVE to get shopping again for that. And pillows. In his memory...
Although to be fair, that can't have been the only reason he made that decision.
Perhaps a bit ironic that his first name is Tao.
Now, I am NOT a disciple of Taoism though I have tried to struggle through the Tao - or Dao -Te Ching more than a few times.
There are a few references to the Tao and suicide (life, death, etc) and consumerism.
Pesonally, I might have thrown the girlfriend over the edge.
1The tao that can be told
is not the eternal Tao
The name that can be named
is not the eternal Name.
The unnamable is the eternally real.
Naming is the origin
of all particular things.
Free from desire, you realize the mystery.
Caught in desire, you see only the manifestations.
Yet mystery and manifestations
arise from the same source.
This source is called darkness.
Darkness within darkness.
The gateway to all understanding.
I'm wondering if being named "Tao" in China is anything like being name "Jesus" (hey-zoos) in the West?
76
"A man is born gentle and weak.
At his death he is hard and stiff.
Green plants are tender and filled with sap.
At their death they are withered and dry.
Therefore the stiff and unbending is the disciple of death.
The gentle and yielding is the disciple of life.
Thus an army without flexibility never wins a battle.
A tree that is unbending is easily broken.
The hard and strong will fall.
The soft and weak will overcome."
You should read Tao Te Ching, perhaps then you would adopt wu-wei as your inner philisophy and wouldn't want to kill your girlfriend (or yourself) because of her shopping habits.
I don't "want" to laugh...but goddamn...that's some funny shit.
Long term solution for a short term problem...
Dunno. I can see why it looks like there is No. Way. Out.
Consumerism is a long term problem that will only be solved by supply shortages. Then and only then, will the values change. We will continue to gobble up the planet beyond the 11th hour, I am afraid. Some of the bacteria in the petri dish go a little mad in the run up I suspect.
Don't worry the value adjustment is coming real soon. Clean water and Food will become the new consumerism must have items.
The petri dish is a great illustration.
Our growth in our petri-dish will end like any other closed system.
Fuckin' Women...Ya can't live with 'em & ya can't shoot 'em
How's about:
Ya can't live with 'em.... and ya can't live with 'em
If we didn't root 'em we'd shoot 'em.
My favorite "Bundyism".
Yeah - Al was a hero of mine ;)
I prefer Tom Arnold's line from "True Lies" - "Women - can't live with 'em, can't kill 'em".
classic!
http://www.bundyology.com/nomaam2.jpg
But you can shake the shit out of them.
http://www.someecards.com/usercards/viewcard/74b20c46e222ee5bb488a6a428f...
why he did not push her off the 7th floor, that is the question. we will never know. He just died for his anti- shoppingism, a fatal economic condition. and krugman and larry just wish we had millions like this lady here.,...
But then he'd get done for murder, and even if the whole jury sympathised with his motive, the men outnumber the women over there, what do you think the verdict would be?
And unlike America, they convict and then execute rapidly. Hell they got a bus that drives around doing executions.
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/world/2006-06-14-death-van_x.htm
Come on Tyler you are not showing both sides of the story. His Girlfriend probably had an insurance policy on him and 'accidentally' pushed him over the ledge. She has to pay the credit card bills somehow!
Some of history's greatest art
has come from the minds of the
disturbed.
Is Imelda Marcos obsessive?
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Latest-News-Wires/2012/0924/Imelda-Marcos-shoe-collection-now-worthless-says-Philippines-government
It's too bad she doesn't paint shoes.
I blame Mao.
Power grows from the pages of a coupon flyer.
I demand solutions, right Mao!
And then..
And then..
And then..
And then...
AAAaaand THENNnnnn
“The way a healthy economy grows, is people earn money and they go out and spend it. The way an unhealthy economy grows, people borrow money and they go out and spend it.” – Barry Ritholtz, CEO Fusion IQ
"Haven't We Suffered Enough? Dump the oligarchs’ central bank!” – Lew RockwellAfter 100 Years of Failure, It's Time to End the Fed Fed! by Ron Paul - December 16, 2013
A week from now, the Federal Reserve System will celebrate the 100th anniversary of its founding. Resulting from secret negotiations between bankers and politicians at Jekyll Island, the Fed’s creation established a banking cartel and a board of government overseers that has grown ever stronger through the years. One would think this anniversary would elicit some sort of public recognition of the Fed’s growth from a quasi-agent of the Treasury Department intended to provide an elastic currency, to a de facto independent institution that has taken complete control of the economy through its central monetary planning. But just like the Fed’s creation, its 100th anniversary may come and go with only a few passing mentions.
Like many other horrible and unconstitutional pieces of legislation, the bill which created the Fed, the Federal Reserve Act, was passed under great pressure on December 23, 1913, in the waning moments before Congress recessed for Christmas with many Members already absent from those final votes. This underhanded method of pressuring Congress with such a deadline to pass the Federal Reserve Act would provide a foreshadowing of the Fed’s insidious effects on the US economy—with actions performed without transparency.
Ostensibly formed with the goal of preventing financial crises such as the Panic of 1907, the Fed has become increasingly powerful over the years. Rather than preventing financial crises, however, the Fed has constantly caused new ones. Barely a few years after its inception, the Fed’s inflationary monetary policy to help fund World War I led to the Depression of 1920. After the economy bounced back from that episode, a further injection of easy money and credit by the Fed led to the Roaring Twenties and to the Great Depression, the worst economic crisis in American history.
But even though the Fed continued to make the same mistakes over and over again, no one in Washington ever questioned the wisdom of having a central bank. Instead, after each episode the Fed was given more and more power over the economy. Even though the Fed had brought about the stagflation of the 1970s, Congress decided to formally task the Federal Reserve in 1978 with maintaining full employment and stable prices, combined with constantly adding horrendously harmful regulations. Talk about putting the inmates in charge of the asylum!
Now we are reaping the noxious effects of a century of loose monetary policy, as our economy remains mired in mediocrity and utterly dependent on a stream of easy money from the central bank. A century ago, politicians failed to understand that the financial panics of the 19th century were caused by collusion between government and the banking sector. The government’s growing monopoly on money creation, high barriers to entry into banking to protect politically favored incumbents, and favored treatment for government debt combined to create a rickety, panic-prone banking system. Had legislators known then what we know now, we could hope that they never would have established the Federal Reserve System.
Today, however, we do know better. We know that the Federal Reserve continues to strengthen the collusion between banks and politicians. We know that the Fed’s inflationary monetary policy continues to reap profits for Wall Street while impoverishing Main Street. And we know that the current monetary regime is teetering on a precipice. One hundred years is long enough. End the Fed.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2013/12/ron-paul/havent-we-suffered-enough/
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-12-15/money-nothing-and-survival-fattest
It"s all fun and games until somebody loses an eye.
See, I bet he'd been watching too many Chinese Kung Fu movies.
Speaking of things falling, or not, in China. How does a 20 story building completely burn out and not fall into it's own footprint at free-fall speeds? I'm perplexed...
From RT: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_SkwHXoiTE&feature=c4-overview&list=UUpw...
... and Made In China too!!! (Maybe some Germans snuck in there and built that building ...)
Twitter must be down today
bullish for the conomy ... and nothing to worry
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/6966037/Chinese-gen...
The worst thing a man can do to a woman is to walk away when she's pushing his buttons. Tao should have gone home, changed the locks, reported his credit card stolen and emigrated to a country where women are more rational.
monad "emigrated to a country where women are more rational." you comedian LOL
monad "emigrated to a country where women are more rational."
Please, wise and venerable monad, Where is this mythical country you speak of?
Elbonia.
Anywhere men are still raised to be men and women are still raised to be women. 2 billion years of evolution doesn't just change when Napolean snaps his hoofs.
This 38 year old adult man didn't know how to negotiate with a woman? How did that happen? 5 hours in the mall is nothing to women. In the west through peer interaction healthy hetero children learn before they hit puberty to avoid shopping with women.
Control yourself, you control your world. Just walk away. Sometimes you have to back away.