She Was Going To Do It So Why Blame Someone Else?

[cassa333]

This girl was ready and waiting to jump off a humongous bridge. Had a count down, stalled and got ready to try again.

Her friend then gave her a shove. Result... broken bones and crucially a ruined summer vacation.

She now says her friend (I’m assuming ex friend now) should be sent to prison for shoving her off the bridge.

At the moment I am leaning towards no because she was going to do it herself and may well have ended up with the same injuries (and resultant ruined summer vacation). I think it is all about health insurance payments and unless you can find someone to blame you have to cough up yourself.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-45211945

[pastafreak]

The article that I read last week claimed that the girl who was pushed was imploring her friend NOT to push her.

[douglas9401]

The 'I was only obeying orders' defence has fallen on stony ground in recent history, OG.

[pixie374]

When I read this last week, it said that she was going to jump, but changed her mind and her "friend" then pushed her anyway. It's the friend saying that she had asked. It depends who you believe, but she must realise if she gets involved she is at least partly responsible.

[-Talbot-]

If it was actually concrete at the bottom I would say jail her
But it wasn't, it was water and some fools have no idea what damage can be done by a fall into water from that height.

Clearly, the pusher was one such fool.

[Old_Geezer]

Wouldn't be an order Doug, but complying with a request.
(Besides folk are told they aren't allowed to have their own moral judgement; one hears nonsense like, "the law must be obeyed because it's the law", time and again.)

[andy-hughes]

I think the push was done without malice, and more imporetantly without thought.


But just because you didn't mean to hurt someone does not mean they don't actually get hurt - if that was the case, every single road accident would never happen, on the basis that people don't intend to main or kill complete strangers with their cars.

In terms of the wording of the OP - 'She was going to do it ...' perhaps, we'll never know, but crucially she didn't do it when she was ready and positioned correctly, with attendant injuries that could have been fatal.

[bhg481]

I's on a par with the idiots who stick a pressure airline up somebody's bum for a lark and then are all amazed when it blows their intestines out and kills them; not done with malice, just ignorance of the danger.