Random Thought Thread v2

[fotze2]

Originally Posted by Sliver

I respect this method for cleanliness. I'm too lazy, though. I've tried, but it's not a habit I can seem to maintain.

I totally sit to perform that rationale, I does make crapping a little more frequent because it’s probably psychosomatic in that sitting position.

[Scroopy Noopers]

Originally Posted by Sliver

I respect this method for cleanliness. I'm too lazy, though. I've tried, but it's not a habit I can seem to maintain.

I’m too lazy to stand…

[DownInFlames]

Hey, hair. You have one job, grow out. Not in. Out.

[PaperBagger'14]

The downtown central library has been evacuated, if you’re planning on going, don’t.

[Locke]

Originally Posted by PaperBagger'14

The downtown central library has been evacuated, if you’re planning on going, don’t.

Is the UCP going after their books too?

[PaperBagger'14]

Originally Posted by Locke

Is the UCP going after their books too?

I just drove by it and there was ~4 ambulances, 8 cop cars and 2 fire trucks. Maybe a UCP book burning, maybe something else burning.

[topfiverecords]

According to Reddit it wasn’t a book burning but a person burning.

[Locke]

Originally Posted by topfiverecords

According to Reddit it wasn’t a book burning but a person burning.

At the Library?

[PaperBagger'14]

Originally Posted by topfiverecords

According to Reddit it wasn’t a book burning but a person burning.

Getting a library card is HOT HOT HOT

But really someone did light themselves on fire (I was told that by a friend in the know).

[PepsiFree]

Why do people keep killing themselves in that library specifically?

[PaperBagger'14]

Originally Posted by PepsiFree

Why do people keep killing themselves in that library specifically?

Because they’re shelf-ish

[PepsiFree]

Originally Posted by PaperBagger'14

Because they’re shelf-ish

Crap I knew I should have put “serious question” after that.

Wouldn’t have made a difference though, would it?

[PaperBagger'14]

Originally Posted by PepsiFree

Crap I knew I should have put “serious question” after that.

Wouldn’t have made a difference though, would it?

Not likely.

But a serious guess would be that its a very magnetizing and high profile building, its open to the public, its very close to the c train and the drop in center (and some of the troubled people that use those services).

If you wanted to do yourself in and make a spectacle out of it, it kinda makes sense.

[DownInFlames]

The "how to kill yourself" section is very robust.

[Goriders]

Originally Posted by PaperBagger'14

Not likely.

But a serious guess would be that its a very magnetizing and high profile building, its open to the public, its very close to the c train and the drop in center (and some of the troubled people that use those services).

If you wanted to do yourself in and make a spectacle out of it, it kinda makes sense.

If you wanted to do yourself in, of all of the methods why would anyone choose lighting themselves on fire?

[Fuzz]

Originally Posted by Goriders

If you wanted to do yourself in, of all of the methods why would anyone choose lighting themselves on fire?

Combustion whore.

[jayswin]

Originally Posted by PepsiFree

Why do people keep killing themselves in that library specifically?

It's been open about seven years and I recall the jumper a few years ago and now this one, so one suicide and one attempt. Both made the news in some capacity (the only reason people know this one and the last one were suicides/attempts was because of Redditt and other sources), even though mainstream media correctly reported it as a "contained fire" as per suicide prevention tactics.

I'm not sure that qualifies as "keep killings themselves" , especially considering it's so close to the drop in center which would point more to the vulnerable population in the area than the library itself as some sort of morbid destination for suicide (the reconciliation bridge is just homeless people ending their lives off a bridge and not in a beautiful new building that everyone likes, and therefore doesn't get a cryptic media release). Working with the drop in centre on and off I know that suicides in and around the drop in centre are very high, like way more alarming than 2 in 7 years at a library down the street. More like every other week or so. But citizens know the building as a new'ish landmark and both made the news, followed by sleuthing beyond traditional media that bypassed a very important safeguard against copy cat suicides, so I guess that's why the questions and curiosity are there.

[Shazam]

It’s also literally right next to the Salvation Army.