Man kills self in department store

[disciple]

A man brandishing a knife slashed himself across the throat in a Cornish town's Woolworths store.

Penzance shoppers fled in panic as the man entered the store at about 1500 BST on Thursday.

An ambulance service spokesman said the 23-year-old local man died within minutes after he cut his arm and slit his throat.

A police spokesman called it "horrific for everyone watching". Nobody else was involved in the incident.

Died 'in minutes'

According to a South West Ambulance spokesman the man entered the store and began walking up and down the aisles waving the knife about.

Woolworths staff quickly cleared customers from the shop and alerted the police and ambulance services.

By the time an ambulance crew arrived at the scene, the man had slashed his throat and had already died.

The ambulance spokesman added said: "Unfortunately the man died within minutes."

A spokeswoman for Woolworths said the store would remain closed on Friday.

She said: "Yesterday's events were extremely disturbing for our colleagues and our priority now is to ensure their welfare and we are supporting them in every way possible.

"We will only reopen the store when we feel it is right to do so and our staff will have our ongoing support."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/cornwall/7005929.stm


"Clean up!!! Aisle 7!!!"

[Saxito Pau]

Looks like you are back in business, Mr. Death Dealer.

This guy apparently wanted his last moments to be a spectacle. Mission accomplished.

[greyfox]

Yeah, probably didn't get enough attention in life so he decided to have his last moments remembered by everyone.  As the saying goes (i think) everyone has to die but noone wants to be Forgotten.  Still... R.I.P. fella.

[New Era Outlaw]

Nooooooooooooooooooobody understaaaaaaaaaaaaaands meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee- *dead*


Blegh. One less emo in the world.
Yeah, I know that sounds heartless, but I just have no respect for people who can't be man enough to face his problems without going "AAAAAHHH WHATAWORLD WHATAWORLD" before splattering his man-ketchup all over the place.

I've said it once, and I'll say it again....unless you're dying from a terminal disease or something that you just can't help really plunges you into the hole of no return, then there is no problem you could ever encounter in life that warrants KILLING YOURSELF. If this guy did it for the attention, well, he got it, but all it amounts to for me is just somebody being an emo-tastic attention whore.