{"id":98125,"date":"2013-12-11T20:37:56","date_gmt":"2013-12-11T20:37:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/chinese-man-commits-suicide-at-mall-after-girlfriend-refuses-to-stop-shopping\/"},"modified":"2013-12-11T20:37:56","modified_gmt":"2013-12-11T20:37:56","slug":"chinese-man-commits-suicide-at-mall-after-girlfriend-refuses-to-stop-shopping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/chinese-man-commits-suicide-at-mall-after-girlfriend-refuses-to-stop-shopping\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Man Commits Suicide At Mall After Girlfriend Refuses To Stop Shopping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Death by overwhelming and inescapable consumerism? Via <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"Gawker\" href=\"http:\/\/gawker.com\/man-commits-suicide-in-mall-after-girlfriend-refuses-to-1479660064\">Gawker<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>A man who was fed up with his girlfriend&#8217;s incessant Christmas shopping responded to her request for one more look around a mall shoe store by leaping seven floors to his death.<\/p>\n<p>The 38-year-old, identified as Tao Hsiao, had been shopping with his girlfriend at the Golden Eagle International Shopping Center in Xuzhou, China, when she asked to check out one last shoe store.<\/p>\n<p>Having been inside the mall for five hours, Tao had reached his limit, and reportedly insisted that they leave immediately. &ldquo;He told her she already had enough shoes, more shoes that she could wear in a lifetime and it was pointless buying any more,&rdquo; an eyewitness was quoted as saying.<\/p>\n<p>Surveillance footage shows Tao angrily hurling the shopping bags and jumping over the railing onto the cosmetics section below. A spokesman for the shopping center says that the man died instantly upon impact.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The post <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/disinfo.com\/2013\/12\/chinese-man-commits-suicide-mall-girlfriend-refuses-stop-shopping\/\">Chinese Man Commits Suicide At Mall After Girlfriend Refuses To Stop Shopping<\/a> appeared first on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/disinfo.com\/\">disinformation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/disinfo\/oMPh\/~3\/wTTgaOXaheI\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Chinese Man Commits Suicide At Mall After Girlfriend Refuses To Stop Shopping\">Disinfo<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Death by overwhelming and inescapable consumerism? Via Gawker: A man who was fed up with his girlfriend&#8217;s incessant Christmas shopping responded to her request for one more look around a mall shoe store by leaping seven floors to his death. The 38-year-old, identified as Tao Hsiao, had been shopping with his girlfriend at the Golden [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1213,"featured_media":98127,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-98125","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}