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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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I think he's he's referring to Iran, which looks pretty good at this point in time.
Full marks for execution, but gets zero points for the landing.
Looks like he stuck it to me.
This incident would make more sense if it took place in USA and the guy was doting on some flyover state hog.... No self respecting guy would dote over a dime a dozen sweet thang from the Panda zone
The real American beauties are in "Flyover", clown.
You can have your assorted coastal feminists, inner city savagettes and various "progressive" witches, not to mention the always overrated Panda Zone..... ahem..... females.
Re " ...she already had enough shoes"
Confucius say:
If girllflend buy more pumps, she must be dumped... or he must jump
Sounds more like something OJ's lawyer said.
Hee noo fli
He sure showed her.
Deceleration sickness...
I always wondered with these jumpers is there a point, say about halfway down, where they think to themselves-
1. this was the worst idea anybody has ever had...in all of history...ever.
and
2.now would be a great time for a mulligan.
Suicide jump survivors usually report that during the fall the survival instinct, or cowardice, kicks in and they immediately regret jumping. I suppose this happens in all forms of relatively slow death experiences. I suspect that is why most suiciders prefer to instakill themselves or ingest substances that kill them in their sleep.
Did she buy new black shoes for the funeral before she left the mall?
Another example of the insanity that plague the human race.
What a pussy!
fucking bitch, fucking whore
I can say that I honestly understand the feeling of that poor dude. Shopping malls are maddening.
I hate shopping, other than for vegetables. My footware collection consists of five pairs of sneakers (which I bought online) and two pairs of real shoes (for funerals). I used to go to thrift stores for truly needed clothing (other than underwear and swimsuits) but now buy it online along with my husband's clothing. Went to the mall for the first time in a couple of years last week since a neighbor wanted to go for coffee; she also bought clothing for her husband, and we both bought veggies at the excellent produce store there; that was all. My mother hates shopping even more than I do.
My father, on the other hand, loves to shop, and drags my mom along: he buys guy stuff compulsively at Sears and office supply stores and hobby supply stores and grocery stores and drug stores and garden supply stores and yard sales. And my brother is a consumer of costly material junk par excellence; his wife is thrifty. I have a friend who is male who has three 30x10 storage units, full of old computers. Another guy I know spent until recently (he died of old age) $3,000/month to store his compulsively purchased (mostly crappy) used books.
Anyway, men and women both shop compulsively, though the malls do seem to be the favored female destination for that social pathology.
Whilst there's nothing wrong with collecting books (at least someone's trying to preserve the traditions of literacy), a $3000 a month storage bill suggests a very serious collection!!
From an eco-viewpoint, thet's also a lot of stored carbon (in the form of paper) so in a small way he's also contributing to reducing our "Carbon Footprint" (and having a good read at the same time!)
He was a really cool guy, an ornament to the human race, and did love literature. And he did buy good books, too; he knew the difference. But a large chunk of it was stuff like twenty copies of the biography of Lee Iacocca; thirty copies of A Man in Full. It was a compulsion, and he happily admitted it. And it did destroy his marriage (his dumpster diving, despite being rich, didn't help). Now he's gone, at a ripe old age, and his books are being sold or given to charity. I wish he had bought a dry canyon cave somewhere instead, and stored up the better books for humankind's future, rather than just making a pile that would be quickly dispersed. I think that would make a great nonprofit: a cave that people could ship books to for The Future, and the nonprofit fills and ultimately seals the place. The donation money sent with each book would cover the expense. They'd all have to be acid-abated, I guess.
Wow, you go to so many funerals that you need two pairs of shoes? j/k ;)
Christmas decorations in a Chinese mall? Heck. Around here in Southern California it's considered un-pc to display such things.
Turns out Jesus was Chinese. Megyn Kelly got it wrong, all wrong.
I know Jesus. He's actually a Puerto Rican.
I was thinking he should have thrown her over first then followed.
Why didn´t he just throw his credit card over the balcony rail.. then it would be her on the marble floor instead
He probably did, and she made him go after it.
he was probably suicidal for a while, the sheer absurdity of the whole thing he couldnt take it anymore.
Call the credit card company and cut off the card? Too much work. Might as well kill myself.
Truly now she has become 'anAmerican'
He's a true hero and we need more like him.
edit: He forgot to toss the gf to the curb first.
Why was the NSA unable to stop this new form of terrorism? Surely this attack on American values could have been stopped. Another failure for Obama. Not even Obamacare could save his life in the end either.
In the early 18th century Christmas was just another day. Then Dickens wrote a book and we've all been brain-washed.
Edit: Dickens thought life was more comedy than tragedy. Also, this is it.
re It brings a whole new meaning to the term "shop til you drop"
"It brings a new slant to the term "shop til you drop" - fixed.
I wonder if the impact will be falling sales.
She's shopping for >$$boyfriend$$ now.
I had a few girlfriends like that. What the fuck is up with shoes and women? I knew a guy who had a foot fetsih, but I tend to observe attributes of the fairer sex above the knee.
I must admit I appreciate the aesthetics of a finely shaped little foot in a revealing sandal with heel. It's like a good hors d'oeuvre ...
Everytime I am in a mall for more than 7 minutes, those same feelings come over me. Shopping (spending money) is for losers.
As opposed to girlfriends and wives, it is said that men who pay hookers/escorts pay them to go away. I find this to be a sound assessment, but apparently this guy didn't get the memo.
Can someone tell Yellen that she already has enough bonds, more bonds than she could sell in a lifetime and it is pointless buying any more?
He was a fool or more likely already insane. No girl is worth that. Could have just broken up with her and cut his losses or left her holding the bag.
Shoes are like porn for women.
Can never have too much of it, only look at the item once before looking at dozens more. When you see a porn stall is hard to walk past, have to browse everything on offer......
This guy just made some other poor guys life miserable as this self centered bitch will hook up with some other monied dope.
If you are gonna jump off a cliff because of a bitch, for god sake take her with you, else what the heck you proving, you lose she wins big time.
And....when my wife and I go shopping.....I get a paper and go to a coffee shop.
Shopping is like slow motion dentistry.
i think that ladies with more that 10 pairs of fashion/high heel shoes are mentally ill-i know a girl with 14 pairs of JUST over the knee boots with killer heels-and is always on the lookout for more