24-year old woman may have broadcasted her suicide attempt on the Internet
Asiajin.com reports that a 24-year old woman who goes by the screenname _mextli attempted suicide today by jumping off the balcony of her fourth floor apartment - all in plain view of her live videostream. The attempt was supposedly broadcast on Stickam Japan, although _mextli's profile appears to have been removed. The incident, though, was widely discussed on 2channel.
On the 28th of November, on Stickam Japan, a girl whose handle is _mextli (her stickam profile via google cache) attempted suicide by jumping off her balcony, the 4th floor of apartment, during her live videostream, some watchers wrote on 2 channel BBS.
It seemed to happen around midnight November 28th Japan Time, police officers visit was watched by the program watcher net-users and reported on 2 channel. Those officers read up her farewell note and gave some sentiment in front of the webcam without noticing they were broadcasted, one watcher had recorded and uploaded that part on YouTube.
Click to view2 channel logs were summarized on few 2 channel summary blogs and it became buzzword among Japanese twitter users. No traditional media have reported on this yet at 5 a.m. Some 2 channel users wrote that she broadcasted slashing her wrist before on the same site and someone called police.
It is still unknown how she is. It is still possible that it is fake to get attention.
Source: TokyoMango, Asiajin