A man who was trying to kill himself in broad daylight, has received serious reprimand in the hands of fellow residents.
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A man identified as Michael Cheruiyot, has been beaten up for trying to commit suicide.
He was beaten up severely by fellow residents who caught him trying to kill himself.
According to SDE, when locals in Chebwagan, Kericho
County, Kenya, heard Michael Cheruiyot, perched atop a tree and armed
with a rope, wailing and threatening that he was just about to kill
himself last Monday evening, they were not amused.
After unsuccessfully trying to forcefully pluck him off the tree,
they begged him to climb down, only to beat the hell and devils out of
him for cracking such a terrible practical joke.
SDE reports that Cheruiyot, who is now nursing serious
injuries from the beatings, is a notorious drunk in the village. He is
also said to be a dramatic character, infamous for chanting obscene
circumcision songs and s*xually harassing local women on his way home
from local drinking dens.
However, on this day, what he had envisioned as the best dramatic
stunt to force his two brothers to give him all his tea bonuses
miserably backfired, leaving him with egg all over his face.
“They had withheld some of his money from the family tea farm
for safe keeping, fearing that he may blow it away on alcohol. A drink
they claimed was his Achilles heel that had seen his wife desert him,” said Isaac Komen, a neighbour.
After scratching his head for the best trick out of the bag to get
all his money, he arrived at the reckless idea of threatening them to
pay up by stage-managing a suicide attempt.
After taking liquor, he bought a rope and found himself a vantage
point on a tree around his home and began threatening to hang himself.
“He tied the rope around his neck, fastened it on a branch and
made his intentions known by, among other things, loudly shouting, ‘the
sons of hell have taken my money! They can now go ahead and use it to
educate their children! I am ready to die yada...yada... yada...’ in
mother tongue,” said Komen.
Panic-stricken members of his family and neighbors rushed to the
scene, trying to stop him in vain. According to Komen, the suicidal man
began lecturing them, rather sarcastically, on why he’d rather die than
live with brothers who perpetually discriminate against him.
After efforts to reach him and forcefully get him down the tree
proved futile, locals resorted to begging, telling him how his family
still needed him.
“He maintained that he was going to hang himself unless his
brothers gave him all his money. He had to be begged to perish the
thought and climb down with promise that they were to go together to a
nearby ATM and ensure he gets all his money,” said Komen.
With no clue what really awaited him, he climbed down the tree,
only for irked locals to pounce and unleash terror on him for
entertaining suicidal thoughts, risking tainting the village’s good name
and wasting villagers’ time.
His own kin had to save him from the furious mob. He has since been counselled and promised to change his ways.
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