Shooting the wrong man in the hand

After making a 911 call threatening suicide, a man in New York State fled into the wilderness carrying a rifle. After a few days he was found by state troopers, and one of them was shot in his right hand as he struggled to keep the man from shooting himself. After causing a major search effort while he was alone in the wilderness for a couple of days, the man ended up hurting someone other than himself while failing to fulfill his goals.

Consecutive failures from the second floor

After being admitted into a hospital for a failed suicide attempt with a cut to her throat, a 55-year old woman in India tried to kill herself by jumping off the second floor. It wasn't high enough: she suffered various injuries and lots of fractured bones.

College students more suicidal than expected

A recent study from the University of Texas at Austin has found that suicidal thoughts among college students were more common than expected, with more than half of the students having had them. And more than 5% have actually seriously attempted suicide.

Misaimed speeding car

A speeding car should always be considered a potentially dangerous weapon that could kill other people, not as a reliable means for killing yourself. A 33-year old man in Australia tried to kill himself by trying to drive his car into a tree. Instead, he crashed into a car driven by a mother of the same age and killed her. Not only did he cause enormous damage to two cars, probably got severe non-fatal injuries, and is also probably going to jail, he is also responsible for killing someone other than himself.

Stabbing yourself while on the phone

If you're trying to kill yourself, it's not a good idea to declare it loudly and repeatedly at the same time you're on the phone with relatives. A 60-year old man was on the phone with his relatives in his car when he stabbed himself, but the relatives had been in contact with the police, who very quickly found and airlifted him to a hospital. Stabbing your own heart is not as easy as you might think, and it hurts.

Forsaking the tourists

The tourism minister of Tasmania in Australia attempted suicide yesterday. She doesn't seem to have suffered any permanent damage, but it might affect the administration of tourism in the region for a while.