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Does this seem trollish, or perhaps creepy to anyone else? This is a new account posting a suicide note and asking for help for a "friend of a friend." This s
by gexla 16y ago
Does this seem trollish, or perhaps creepy to anyone else? This is a new account posting a suicide note and asking for help for a "friend of a friend."
This seems like posting to Hacker News to ask for advice because your house is on fire. Oh, and by the way, if anyone happens to be in the neighborhood, could you bring a bucket of water?
Call the police, call a suicide hotline. Get help from real professionals.
- jpulgarin 16y agoThis seemed like a place where someone might know him. The police are aware of the situation, but perhaps someone who knows him personally might be able to contact him.
- jasonyyun 16y agoThanks for the concern... I saw this a minute after the post went up on Facebook and talked to a friend + colleague of BZ. He called Princeton Public Safety about 10 minutes after it was posted, and they informed him that they were on the way and that someone else had already called in. He also called a friend of his (J) who's in the area, and I think J is going over to check on him now.
- jpulgarin 16y agoYep, that must've been my friend who called in beforehand. Lets hope everything turns out okay.
- gexla 16y agoGreat, so assuming this is real the correct channels are acting on this faster and more effectively than any others. Hopefully tomorrow he will wake up a new person. Unfortunately, the post still lives on hacker news and wherever else you mentioned it. Do this person a favor and DO NOT repost his suicide note despite his instructions to do so. ETA: Sorry, replied to the wrong person. I meant this for the OP.
- jaekwon 16y agoI think from.bz is the site of the author, so it seems legit