A distressed Chinese man whose wife allegedly refused to give him a second child , threatened to commit suicide last week, Daily Mail reports.
Rescuers spent 16 hours persuading the man, identified as 33-year-old
Zhang Guiping, to come down from a 130-foot-tall transmission tower. Fortunately, Zhang, father of a five-year-old boy,
walked away unharmed.
The Henfeng County Police told reporters they received a call at around
4pm local time (10am GMT) from a woman claiming her husband was going to
kill himself. They immediately went to the scene where they found Zhang
high up the tower, extremely anxious and refusing to come down.
His hysterical wife was waiting at the bottom, along with other family members, hoping he would eventually change his mind.
The tower Zhang had climbed was so dangerous with such a high voltage of
electricity running through it, rescuers were hesitant to climb up and
retrieve him. As well as electricity risks, the weather conditions were
very severe.
To ensure his safety, the emergency services waited throughout the night
with Zhang, they also put safety cushions on the floor to break his
fall if he jumped.
According to a report from news.sohu, when he was up the tower a woman could be heard shouting from below:
‘Come down. Don’t think about the other, we have to consider the child we have.’
Zhang’s wife had reportedly told him she did not want to have another
baby, so he climbed up the high-voltage tower and threatened to take his
own life. The couple already have a five-year-old son, but this was not
enough for Zhang.
After an investigation, it was discovered he was jealous of the fact his
neighbours had more than one child, but his wife would not commit to
giving him another.
Given his mental state, Zhang was sent to the Hengfeng Psychiatric Hospital for treatment.