Folkestone Double Death Plunge Smash Horror Tragedy!
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Yoinks, yesterday someone chucked themselves off the roof of Bouverie Square in Folkestone, and today the end of our road was sealed off by police because of a "scene". Police were stopping anyone getting close to what had happened, so a) we had to walk home via a circuitous route, and b) no I didn't get any photos / videos / close up viewing details of what had gone on.
Actually wrote that yesterday and then Clare made me think about whether I should write about things like that or not. Of course I should, this is for me to remember where I was and what I was doing and things. Any local events are worth a mention. Perhaps making a horror death map tour of the town on google maps or something would be going to far, but it might be interesting to see local murder points, or the inevitable floral tributes. Look, what's likely to happen first, I write publish something insensitive and gory, or I just get too dull and other people stop reading?
I didn't go out of my way to find out anything about the Bouverie Square (newish town centre shopping complex, Asda, Starbucks, HMV, etc) suicide, I first overheard at work that something had happened "opposite SAGA". Although I was back in work, jetlagged and holiday-hungover, Clare had another day off and was spending part of it walking to Hythe, so right past SAGA HQ. Clare wasn't answering her phone, but she spotted it and called me back, she'd been in to town and heard all about the tragedy there from someone who worked in Asda.
Further details emerged on the way home, I had borrowed a car from work and gave someone else a lift back to Folkestone, he'd been on Facebook and the other gossip networks and heard from people who'd apparently been there, and there were seemingly plenty of witnesses, some of them holding up their camera phones as it all happened (although an apparent eye-witness has checked in to say this is NOT TRUE). So that's why I don't have any firm details, I'm not googling for it in case someone more awful than me has a YouTube clip or something.
Going to be a fairly lazy day today, hopefully I will get round to sorting my holiday photos and trying to remember some details of what we actually did while we were in Key West. Yesterday we had a bit of a day out - it's a bank holiday, so a free day, so let's do something different. We ended up in Ramsgate - it's rubbish, but the harbour side cafes were OK on such a nice day, and it does have a Pizza Express. We tried a few pubs, but could not find ANY local beer, how odd. So we headed back after lunch and jumped off the train at Deal briefly - much nicer there, went to the very cool The Bohemian pub / bar, and happened to be at the station at the same time as The Orient Express. Well, the English leg of it anyway. Lots of people suited and buoted on the platform, very odd.
We came home from Deal quite early just to stay in and catch up on Lost and House and loads of low quality quiz shows on BBC iPlayer.
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I Am from Folkestone but live in Dublin at the moment and I heard friday morning about what had happened - and have been searching ever since in the internet to try and find out who it was - in case I know him - and you`rs is the only mention.
I think you are right in mentioning it. It`s not like you are sensationalising it - or printing gory pictures of the events - you are simply noting that it happened.
Nothing wrong with that at all.
heather
Heather :: 7 May :: Comment / reply
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We'll see if there's anything more concrete any more detail in this week's local papers, which will be out tomorrow.
7 May :: Comment / reply
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I agree with Claire on this one. While I agree with idea of blogging events, I fail to see why you'd want to look back on the 4th May and read in some detail about how someone you don't know reached a point of desperation where they didn't want to live any more. It's all a big gruesome to me.
Muddyfunkster :: 7 May :: Comment / reply
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It's something interesting that happened locally, none of my business really, but (in the suicide case) this person had a reason for doing what they did so publicly I guess, and that's intriguing.
In the case of the accident at the end of the road, that really did affect me. I quite literally had to detour around the site of the accident (if that's what it was).
7 May :: Comment / reply
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Yes she did! She actually came off of the Asda carpark and i certainly won't forget5 coming face to face with her smashed on the pavement! Suicide remains the most selfish act ever!!! I CANNOT find it within my self to feel sorry for.......best to withold her name i guess. I feel sorry for the man who fell to his knees sobbing and being sick! I wanted to go to him to be honest but my legs refused to move! Asd for what you've been told about people there taking pictures etc on they're phones of it happening? That's utter Bull sh*t! It was surprisingly quiet for the time of day and the ambulance seemed to take forever to cover her body. I could only walkaorund the BACK way to go to the bus station which is where i had been heading for as, like i said my legs wouldn't move forward. that in itself was a very strange feeling and although i'm still a bit shaky today i'm ok. I don't think the poor man that was there will ever have an normal life again!Sensationalism like 'people taking pics' of course does NOT help those of us that were subjected to it and are totally untrue.
darkmoonsister :: 6 May :: Comment / reply
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I agree, darkmoonsider. I think it is inappropriate to 'feel sorry for' someone who has committed suicide. I do feel sorrow/care/concern for you and the other witnesses (who, I can promise, the young lady had no wish to hurt) and also for her family (my cousin and his wife and children).
I can understand a little of how shocking and how much of an affront it must have seemed to you and the other witnesses but you should understand that, unlike the motives of a suicide bomber, harm to other people was completely outside her perception at the time. So I am desperately sorry that you had to be a witness: nobody deserves that experience. I grieve, too, with her family who, I know, did all they could to help but were unable to touch her in the dark tunnel she was in where the reality of other people (and their feelings) became no more than graffiti or pictures on a wall.
Yes, please don't feel sorry for her. But neither should you feel sorry for yourself that her selfish act disturbed your life. When you can, I hope you will be able to forgive her. I don't know if you know the family but please share your pain with them, if you can. It helps to make up for the pain in a single mind that was spattered over everyone concerned when she fell.
Owlwings :: 10 May :: Comment / reply
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Another STRANGE "fact" I heard from someone at work was that the lady in question jumped after she'd finished her shift in Wilkinsons... why would you not do it before?
6 May :: Comment / reply
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She wasn't actually working at the time. Unfortunately I know who it was and some background on it. It is a shame but suicide is indeed a very selfish act but then society might be to blame for causing some of the ills of this world. I am not going to put her name on here.
