Tate Modern: Boy, six, 'thrown from 10th floor'

[jakesmith]

wtf... I go here with the kids all the time thought it was one of the safest places in central london. Can I not leave my kids for a second now?
Will pray for the little boy

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-47214...

[glazbagun]

Nutter. You have to wonder how detached you can become from society to even think about doing something like this.

[ReallyReallyGood]

Practical ‘joke’ gone too far presumably?

[fathomfive]

Wtf? Poor kid.

[Pesty]

Damn same thing happened a few months ago in the states.

Man grabbed kid and threw him from the balcony. Severe injuries.

This one looks a few floors more. Not going to be a great outcome from this. Even if he lives he will have life changing injuries

[PositronicRay]

Was the perp his brother?

[Turn7]

The world we have created is fked up beyond belief.

[Pesty]

That’s a pretty large rail. Hard to imagine anything other than deliberate

[FN2TypeR]

Turn7 said:

The world we have created is fked up beyond belief.

Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos

[Gargamel]

PositronicRay said:

Was the perp his brother?

No

[BlackLabel]

Horrific, poor little boy.

I hope the fact that he landed on the fifth floor as opposed to the ground will give him a fighting chance of survival.

[HiAsAKite]

Beggars belief... somethings are just incomprehensible....

Made worse that I know the area very well and often work less than a 100m away from there...

[Pesty]

Hope that incline retarded his fall some but if he’s got brain injuries which would be hard not to

[98elise]

Gargamel said:

PositronicRay said:

Was the perp his brother?

No

The news is saying it's believed the perpetrator was not known to the family and was calm when the police arrived.

Absolutely shocking crime.

[gruffalo]

98elise said:

The news is saying it's believed the perpetrator was not known to the family and was calm when the police arrived.

Absolutely shocking crime.

That bit makes me think mental illness.

We will have to wait and see.

[CAPP0]

gruffalo said:

That bit makes me think mental illness.

Wondered that myself. I can't see how two kids of such different ages would have got into a bad-enough argument for the older one to do this, plus people nearby might have noticed sooner if they were kicking off. Mental illness seems most likely at this stage although only speculation of course. He was said to be "calm" when the police arrived.

Only other absolute long shot I can imagine is that it might be race-related?

[kev1974]

gruffalo said:

98elise said:

The news is saying it's believed the perpetrator was not known to the family and was calm when the police arrived.

Absolutely shocking crime.

That bit makes me think mental illness.

We will have to wait and see.

The news today is saying a bit more:

• The thrower was not known to the victim, and other people had seen him acting strangely before it happened
• It's not that the victim's mum had left her kid to trail along behind her or anything, the thrower had actively taken the victim from her arms
• When it happened two witnesses on the balcony restrained and attacked the thrower
• Tate security initially thought the thrower was a victim too and took him to the cafe, but when it became clear what had happened he was taken to a toilet and locked in it for his own protection
• The thrower "blamed social services"?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7321457/T...

Horrific.

[p4cks]

Shocking. I can't even begin to imagine the how/why of all of this

Sadly this will no doubt result in a knee jerk over-reaction resulting in the end to the open viewing platform

[Zoon]

p4cks said:

Shocking. I can't even begin to imagine the how/why of all of this

Sadly this will no doubt result in a knee jerk over-reaction resulting in the end to the open viewing platform

I don't think the attempted murder of a child is a knee-jerk reaction.

[amusingduck]

Zoon said:

p4cks said:

Shocking. I can't even begin to imagine the how/why of all of this

Sadly this will no doubt result in a knee jerk over-reaction resulting in the end to the open viewing platform

I don't think the attempted murder of a child is a knee-jerk reaction.

Do you suggest we retrofit new barriers nationwide to prevent lunatics tossing people over them, or just at the Tate?