In the interest of full disclosure, when a distraught man called the Suicide Helpline in Sweden, he didn’t actually kill the counselor on the other end of the line, but he did put him in a deep, deep coma. You know, the kind with lots of snoring and some embarrassing puddles of drool.
Yes, the hotline employee who was supposed to be making sure nobody blew their brains out or jumped off a fjord fell asleep in mid phone call.
As the story goes, when a psychologically unstable guy called in, he was forwarded to a pastor on duty. After talking to the Holy Man for awhile, the troubled soul began to get the feeling that he was talking to himself.
“All I could hear was his heavy breathing,” recalled the man who assumed his counselor was just taking notes. Unfortunately, the notes he was taking all had the same letter: Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
Eventually, the guy on the verge of playing Russian Roulette woke his adviser up. But the pastor’s wakeful state did not last long. After another five minutes he fell back asleep leaving Harry Kari with no other choice but to hang up.
The 44-year-old made another attempt to be talked out of turning on the Volvo in a locked up garage, but was placed on hold with nothing to save him but Muzak versions of “Like a Virgin” and “Come On Eileen.”
Which as we all know, is enough to make anyone slit their wrists.


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