I can't take it anymore... somebody needs to cull the herd...

[Spore]

A man apparently intent on punishing his estranged wife jumped off of the Don Mills bridge onto the busy westbound lanes of Highway 401 holding his five-year-old daughter Sunday night.

The father, said to be in his late 30s, left a suicide note and repeatedly called his spouse threatening to kill himself and their young child. On Sunday he attempted to follow through on his evil warnings.

But miraculously, the little girl survived. She was rushed to the Hospital for Sick Children and is in guarded condition. She was talking when she arrived and officials said she had suffered internal bleeding, but that has stopped. And amazingly, no cars hit the child, or her father who was pronounced dead at the scene.

Police were aware of the man?s terrible intentions but weren't able to reach him on time. Insp. Brian O?Connor described the man as a ?loaded missile? and said he had a history of mental health issues.

?He was going to kill himself and take his daughter to punish his wife for whatever he thought she had done wrong in the relationship,? he said.

The numerous threatening phone calls the man made to his wife could be considered a form of ?psychological torture,? O?Connor said. The woman called police around 4:30pm Sunday to let them know about her husband's terrible plan and investigators desperately tried to find him.

?Officers at that time tried to use some methods to track down the location the cell phone was being used from,? he said.

Then, at around 5:45pm a citizen called police to tell them she saw a man on a cell phone holding a girl on the Don Mills bridge. Several other people, including some drivers, saw the disturbed father hold his child out over the busy highway.

O?Connor said the family was split but the man did have legal access to the child and did have her for the day Sunday.

So far, authorities haven?t released any names.

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Useless fucking piece of shit. How the fuck does somebody with known mental issues get custody (or even visitation rights) of a child?

I am sick to my stomach.

[*lady vader*]

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[Joranthalus]

too bad the guy died... he deserved to be tortured for many years....

[Andyman]

Mental illness is a funny thing. Does anyone ever know if they're really crazy? At what point are you not responsible for being stupid?

I guess it comes down to this...the guy's brain was malfunctioning and another person's life was at stake. Take' em out.

[Peter Peeker]

sad...

[Slytherin Snape]

[chaserfan]

shit like this happens too often. people are worse than animals. for the most part people suck

[Toy Warrior]

That does really suck! On a related note of people sucking, last night a guy in farfield shot his pregnant wife in the head then turned the gun on himself, all in front of his 2 teenage daughters. The husband, wife and unborn child are all dead, and their remaining daughters who witnessed it all are going to be messed up for life. Truly, truly sad.

[Biomechanoid]

Hmmm...

Maybe we're the problem. We all sit in our comfy chairs blasting this bastard on the internet all day, but I'll bet each one of us knows someone who is desperate for help. Perhaps if we'd spend more time with people we'd have more compassion for them and maybe even have a hand in preventing instances such as this. I dunno, probly a stupid thought.

Anything else gruesome and entertaining in the news?

[Spore]

I think they need to nail his corpse to the bridge with a huge sign saying "this is what a waste of space looks like".