Toddler is killed when suicidal man jumps from 8th floor and lands on the kid

[Meatpie]

[SUB]The boy with his father.[/SUB]

A 21-month-old child died when a man who had allegedly jumped out of an eighth floor window landed on him in Ukraine.

The boy's father witnessed the moment when a 39-year-old man landed on his son, in Zaporizhia, southeastern Ukraine.

Both the toddler and the man died at the scene despite desperate efforts by paramedics to revive them.

 

[badjohnny25]

how sad and what are the odds of that happening

the toddlers dad is pretty darn handsome with nice looking feet

 

[alexonedeath]

Actually, I'm surprised this sort of thing doesn't happen more often. Ensuring a clear landing spot is probably not uppermost in a suicidal jumper's mind. I feel certain that very few jumpers WANT to hurt anyone below, but they are distraught at that point, and thus put other people's welfare at risk. The father here, once his immediate horror has passed, will hardly know what to do with his anger. It was a grotesque "act of God" that should never have happened, but you can't protect yourself or your kids from this.