Netizens are divided over who should bear the blame for the death of a teenager in Singapore, who died while attempting a Snapchat stunt. 。
Last Friday, 17-year-old Jonathan Chow wanted his friend to take a Snapchat video of him jumping over a fourth floor railing at a mall. He thought he would hop over the railing and land on a ledge by it. 。
The ledge appeared to be solid, but was instead made of plasterboard. When Chow landed on it, he tore through the flimsy material and plunged down four floors. 。
SEE ALSO:Model dangles from a Dubai skyscraper…all for an Instagram photo 。"He came up with the idea of doing the stunt. We both thought the ledge was made of concrete, but when he jumped [on it], he fell straight through," his 17-year-old friend Ruth, who was meant to be filming the video told news outlet 。 TODAY. 。
(This surveillance video claims to show Chow jumping over the railing, as Ruth reacts in shock. It's shocking, and we will not embed it here.) 。
The ledge was protected by a glass railing that is 1.2m high. 。
"The [decorative structure] was wide enough to look like a passage way and there was no warning sign to tell people that it should not be walked on," Mr Chow, the teen's father, told 。 The New Paper. 。
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Some online agree with him.
。The mall in Singapore in which the incident took placeCredit: Sowersby/REX/Shutterstock 。
"To give an illusion that the [ledge] was concrete was a foolish thing... a sign should have been placed there lest people attempt to retrieve fallen items. A young life gone too soon," said one netizen on Facebook. 。
'Why did they design a ledge made of plasterboard resembling a concrete ledge?
'Why did they design a ledge made of plasterboard resembling a concrete ledge?" another asked. 。
However, some think the mall shouldn't be blamed, and that jumping over the railing is unexpected behaviour. 。
"Don't blame the mall. A glass barrier of 1.2m was [there]... the fault lies entirely on the teen himself and nobody else," one user commented. 。
"The railing is good enough a deterrence message. The father should not blame the management," one netizen said.。
"I fault the YOLO generation for this. He just wanted to one up the Russian model who [hung] off the top of a building," another added, referring to an incident in which a Russian model hung off the top of a building for an Instagram picture. 。
Earlier last year, an 18-year-old girl from Atlanta almost killed herself and left another driver with brain injuries when she hit his car at over 100mph while using Snapchat. 。
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