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Onlookers taunt suicidal teen into jumping

Thursday, October 2nd, 2008

How sick and depraved are these people? Onlookers in Britain taunted a teen threatening to jump to his death, and after he did they took pictures of the body.

Tuesday as 17-year-old Shaun Dykes prepared to jump from the top of a multi-storey carpark in Derby, northern England, spectators allegedly shouted to him: “How far can you bounce?,” the U.K.’s MailOnline reported.

As Dykes hesitated for three hours on the ledge while police unsuccessfully tried to reason him out of taking his life, teenagers who had gathered below shouted “Jump” and “Get on with it,” according to police and witnesses.

Then after Dykes lay in a crumpled heap on the pavement the same hecklers rushed out from behind the police cordon to take photos of the body.

“When he (Dykes) fell, lots of people were screaming and crying but there were several groups of youths who ran from behind the cordon and looked like they were taking pictures with their mobile phones,” a local shopkeeper was quoted as telling the MailOnline.

Children dead after Russian school collapse

Thursday, October 2nd, 2008

A school building in Belyayevka, Russia partially collapsed, killing five children inside.

An entire section of the two-storey building housing the school in Belyayevka, 120 km (75 miles) from the regional capital Orenburg in the southeastern Urals, came crashing down, spreading debris over a wide area.

Local people rushed to help firemen and police trying to rescue children from the rubble, and emergency workers sent from Orenburg brought in a crane to help remove the piles of debris.

“Eleven children have been taken out of the rubble, five of them are dead, four are injured and 800 people were evacuated,” an Emergencies Ministry spokeswoman in Orenburg said. The death toll was not expected to rise, she added.

Man punches girl over McDonald’s cuts

Thursday, October 2nd, 2008

A Los Angeles man, setting an excellent example for the two young children he had with him, beat up a 16-year-old girl at a McDonald’s after she argued that he had cut in line.

Police say the girl, her 5-year-old niece and a friend were standing in line on Sept. 14 at the McDonald’s in South Los Angeles. The suspect and two young boys then approached the counter when the 16-year-old started arguing with the man over who was first in line.

Police say the girl swore at the man, who then got angry and punched her in the face several times.

The suspect left with the boys in a red pickup truck.

Toddler, infant ejected from car in crash

Thursday, October 2nd, 2008

Four people, including a toddler and an infant, were ejected from their car when it struck a 15-year-old girl who blew a stop sign. The girl was fleeing another accident she caused minutes earlier.

According to Watsonville police officer Donny Thul, the unlicensed driver rear-ended a Chevrolet Trailblazer at Freedom Boulevard and Stanford Avenue just before the injury crash. She was being chased by the driver of the Chevrolet and speeding when she blew through a stop sign at Sudden Street and Palm Avenue and was broadsided by a Toyota Landcruiser, Thul said.

The force of the crash, which happened just after 1 p.m. at 211 Sudden St., caused the Explorer the 15-year-old was driving to spin. The out-of-control vehicle hit a parked van, sending debris and broken glass over a half-block area. Baby supplies, a car seat, clothes and trash littered the residential street.