That's when the lawyer should have held up his cigarette and said, "Yes.....slowly...."
They'd a probably had to shoot him then, suicide is a crime most places...
Nothing really new though.
In the late '80s when I was on instructor duty in Groton we had a TDY student that was having pay problems. Disbursing had screwed him in royal fashion. His wife and kids were not getting the allotments and he was getting the run around from the pay clerks.
One Saturday morning he placed a call to the Chaplin's help line hoping to get some divine intervention.
As it turned out the Chaplin's was forwarded to the suicide prevention line on weekends.
He spoke with the person that answered, gave them all the pertinent info and was told they would get back to him. About 15 minutes later the base police kick in his barracks room door and haul him off to the psych ward at the base hospital.
Well, since he was locked up he didn't show up for duty on Sunday, and they still wouldn't let him out come Monday morning. We didn't have a clue where he was and he was reported as UA.
Late Monday afternoon they decide he wasn't a threat to himself and let him out.
No one had bothered to inform his command, they didn't even offer him a ride back to his barracks but they did offer to call him a cab. He had no money, no shoes and only a pair of hospital slipper and jeans and a t-shirt, in October in CT. To say he was pissed would have been an understatement.
It took a couple of weeks to get all the BS straightend out and then only after our Dept, LCDR got involved.
Well, we thought it had all been straightend out till he tried to check out of the barracks at the end of the course, they charged him for the damage to his barracks room door. I don't think he paid it though.
