A woman with history of mental illness jumped from the 16th floor of a Bangkok high-rise, but not until authorities arrived with an air mattress, preventing her death.
The unidentified 28-year-old Nonthaburi native sat on a window sill in her top-floor Lumpini Ville condominium on Sukhumvit Soi 77 for two hours before safely leaping to the cushion.
She suffered only bruises and was taken to Kluanamthai 1 Hospital.
The woman's mother said the incident began when her daughter ransacked their apartment while she was at the market and tried to bite her face and arm upon her return, claiming the woman was not her mother.
The older woman left and the daughter locked the door, went to the window and swung her legs outside. Her mother then called police.
According to the mother, the 28-year-old took diet pills and began to develop a mental problem five year ago. She was treated for mental illness at Srithanya Hospital in Bangkok for two months after she tried to commit suicide once.
But her mother said her daughter had stopped taking medicine in recent years. She began to show signs of stress, however, when she resigned from work two days ago.
A video clip below, uploaded to YouTube by Jor Sor 100 traffic radio, shows the moment the woman jumped safely from her room.