Bridge smeared with butter to stop suicide jumpers

Officials officials have had a giant bridge smeared with butter to stop people jumping off it.

The 1,000ft long steel structure in Guangzhou, south east China, has become a popular spot for leaping from — causing long tailbacks as drivers stop to watch.

And now the state's government has got so fed up with it, workers have been ordered to spread creamy fat on all the bridge's climbable surfaces.



Government spokesman Shiu Liang said: "We tried employing guards at both ends but that didn't work - and we put up special fences and notices asking people not to commit suicide here.

"None of it worked - so now we have put butter over the bridge and it has worked very well. Nobody can get up there and nobody who tries ever falls."

Bridge guard Wong Man said: "The butter makes the bars and frames slippery and hard to climb on to, and we can easily catch them."