To be honest, they needed a wash when they left me.
also, he doesn’t know it was suicide and he shouldn’t be speculating as it could upset the family . As a seasoned reporter (or human being) he should know that. Plus, if the bloke was trying to commit suicide, what gives Tom Brady the right to interfere, the self important, presumptuous tit.
As ever fat-stuff your bulbous and bloodshot news-nose, has led you to the crux of the story.
We were all thinking that, only you dared ask it.
Actually I think he was tweeting whilst under considerable stress, but he was a little premature.
Disagree. His actions were right, his articulation of them wrong. He actually had no knowledge of the mind of the driver. All he knew was what he saw happened, and anyone with the capability would at least have wanted to try and help.
I’ve been around people who’ve died from overdoses, and it’s true that families do get distressed by some clear-cut statement about motive. But if I had seen someone suffering the effects of an OD I’d get try to get them out of trouble (and have done).
tweeting under considerable stress? When I’m stressed I don’t immediately turn to social media. He didn’t see a tragedy, he saw a story…he saw what he thought was a good story…an unusual suicide (presumed, but what the heck), lazy foreigners not giving a fuck and a hero in pyjamas, and he thought, let’s get this out there without any regard for the family or the truth.
If I saw some bloke drive off a harbour and it looked like he just took a wrong turn, I’d be straight in that water rescuing the fella and straight onto the Internet to update my Bebo account. But if I saw some bloke drive off a harbour because he wanted to kill himself, I’d think…an interesting choice of suicide, but who am I to interfere? Good luck to the old chap and I’d find a harbour cafe and have some crab and a glass of wine, like Rick Stein.
I blame myself.
Those pyjamas had a large, superhero-like B stitched into them.
I bet he thought he was Bletchman.
Because Tom and I are like this [bletch makes intimate and potentially inappropriate gesture with his fingers], I’m giving him the benefit of the doubt.
His motives were beyond reproach.
Which is what I said: actions fine, articulation of them not fine.