Man Falls to His Death off the Empire State Building - International Herald Tribune

my reaction on reading this: aiyoh.
tracy (my roommate): why?
me: a man jumped off the empire state building and died!
tracy: too much work eh?
me: lawyer. (incidentally, guess what tracy is studying! also, guess whose working hours we were discussing over dinner).
her reaction: WHAT?!?! (surprise, shock, anxiety, etc) that's the worst new i have heard in this year. (she is exaggerating, but the point is made)
my evil reply: if you didn't ask, i wouldn't have said!

and after that we return to our books. and i thought about the reasons for the man wanting to kill himself. i thought about family, i thought about debt, and then i thought - maybe he is not a man! what gives the newspapers so much authority that their word is the truth? (see, this is what too much oxford does to you. and i actually contemplated about the stranglehold that papers around the world have on news, truth and opinions.)

then i decided i am turning mad. and i am posting this because i think it is in a very macabre way rather amusing. the degeneration of my mind.