{"id":15024,"date":"2013-12-30T22:36:35","date_gmt":"2013-12-31T03:36:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/kathyschiffer\/?p=15024"},"modified":"2016-09-30T15:53:48","modified_gmt":"2016-09-30T20:53:48","slug":"exhausted-boyfriend-kills-himself-rather-than-going-into-another-shoe-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/kathyschiffer\/2013\/12\/exhausted-boyfriend-kills-himself-rather-than-going-into-another-shoe-store\/","title":{"rendered":"Exhausted Boyfriend Kills Himself Rather Than Going Into Another Shoe Store"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><figure id=\"attachment_15025\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15025\" style=\"width: 251px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/148\/2013\/12\/Chinese-mall-1.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-15025\" title=\"Chinese mall 1\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/148\/2013\/12\/Chinese-mall-1-251x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"251\" height=\"300\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15025\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Crowds look down after a tired, distraught shopper flings himself over the railing to his death<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p><strong>He said:<\/strong>\u00a0 You have more shoes than you could wear in a lifetime.\u00a0 It\u2019s pointless buying any more.<\/p>\n<p><strong>She said:<\/strong>\u00a0 You\u2019re a skinflint.\u00a0 You\u2019re spoiling Christmas.<\/p>\n<p><strong>And with that, 38-year-old Tao<\/strong> <strong>Hsiao<\/strong> rallied his strength one more time\u2014tossing his heavy packages to the floor, hoisting himself over the railing, and jumping seven stories to his death.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 *\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 *\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 *\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 *\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 *<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_15027\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15027\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/148\/2013\/12\/Chinese-mall-2.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-15027\" title=\"Chinese mall 2\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/148\/2013\/12\/Chinese-mall-2-300x166.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"166\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15027\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Emergency crew removes the body of mall suicide victim<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>You may have seen <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2520753\/Chinese-boyfriend-jumped-death-girlfriend-insisted-going-clothes-shop.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">reports<\/a> of the story,<\/strong> which took place earlier in December in an east China shopping mall.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The couple had been shopping for more than five hours,<\/strong> and Tao Hsiao felt he just didn\u2019t need one more thing, couldn\u2019t carry one more thing, couldn\u2019t shop for one more thing. \u00a0He and his girlfriend were heard arguing loudly before he just chucked it and flung himself over the railing and into eternity.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The un-named girlfriend,<\/strong> in her materialistic quest for more and still more stuff, has lost a man she may have loved.\u00a0 She lost any chance of having a peaceful, joy-filled holiday season.\u00a0 Their last words to one another, shouted in anger, will remain in her heart for life.\u00a0 Chances are, she\u2019s experienced a good measure of guilt.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The holidays don\u2019t always bring out the best in people.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He said:\u00a0 You have more shoes than you could wear in a lifetime.\u00a0 It\u2019s pointless buying any more. 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