I thought I’d heard everything there was to hear in this job. But today we had a call that was so bizarre and horrible that it left us speechless.
A woman committed suicide. She didn’t use one of the “normal” methods like cutting her wrists or overdosing. She didn’t even go for the more dramatic jumping under a train or hanging herself. No, she choked herself to death with a large quantity of marshmallows.
It was the sort of call that you look at and think “no… this can’t be… they’ll get there and it’ll all be a misunderstanding. Or a hoax. She couldn’t possibly have…”
But she had. The call was exactly as given. She was already dead by the time the crew arrived.
We often like to share a bag of Flumps on the East Central during nightshifts, but I think we’ll be giving them a miss from now on.
September 23rd, 2009 at 9:34 pm
Accidental or intentional? Really surprising someone could overcome the natural urge to gag and force themselves to choke.
September 24th, 2009 at 6:26 am
It happens, but it's more normal to use tissues or something like that.
September 24th, 2009 at 9:12 am
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September 24th, 2009 at 10:39 am
Perhaps she didn't want to traumatize her family and thought it would look like an accident rather than a suicide.
Was she Asian ?
September 24th, 2009 at 10:53 am
I don't know why, but both the caller and the crews who attended seemed in no doubt that it was suicide.
September 24th, 2009 at 10:54 am
I don't know her what her ethnic origin was… That seems ridiculous, but no more ridiculous than any other explanation I can come up with.
September 24th, 2009 at 11:06 am
I think that has put me off buying marshmallows!!!!!
September 24th, 2009 at 3:31 pm
You mean a call was actually as given over the phone? Egads, what is this world coming to?
PS – Any chance of meeting you in November at the US/UK exchange blogger meetup in Newcastle?
September 24th, 2009 at 7:04 pm
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September 25th, 2009 at 7:51 am
It mamzes me the lengths people will go to in order to bring about their own destruction. How terribly sad..
September 25th, 2009 at 5:00 pm
I always knew those Easter "Peeps" were evil.
Killer Peeps.
September 26th, 2009 at 10:06 am
That's bizarre!
I will never look at a bag of marshmallows in quite the same light again.
September 27th, 2009 at 9:15 pm
Brought to mind this post that I read last year…
http://erstories.net/?p=798
September 29th, 2009 at 11:44 am
I find stories like this sad. Anyone taking their life is awful but with marshmallows is slightly weird too – still a tragic story.
October 10th, 2009 at 6:59 pm
Amazing – I expect every bay will now have a health warning on them from here on in…
October 20th, 2009 at 1:51 pm
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April 5th, 2010 at 3:47 pm
florist18…
http://www.slanovskiy.co.uk/index/forums/member/83/ inside…
May 5th, 2010 at 10:56 am
Instead of writing this voyeuristic blog why don't you teach your dumb ass colleagues in UOC to fucking read and write as most of the messages that come down the MDT are badly spelt and have the grammar of a 4 year old. Your the fucking reason we as front line staff have to go and pick up scum off the streets and in there homes when they could get there lazy fucking asses down the chemist or a GP could call round. The LAS is not a taxi service for able bodied people. Get tough on them or your AOM will.
Cunts !!!
June 3rd, 2010 at 10:23 am
How is that even possible? Sounds like a hoax but isn't… Crazy…