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Young Man is Detained After Being Talked Out of Pyramid Suicide

March 19, 2018

Aggressive touts and salesmen aside, the Great Pyramids of Giza are renowned for being a hub of good vibes and spiritually sensitive recognising the area as an earth chakra point and energy vortex. The world’s last standing ancient wonder attracts visitors from around the globe. Standing in awe of these spectacular structures, they muse as to how they were built – did aliens descend on Ancient Egypt? – and make their way to the famous viewpoint to take photos giving the illusion of possessing a superhuman strength that allows them to pick up a pyramid between finger and thumb. It is with sadness, then, that local reports on Saturday detailed how a young worker climbed the Pyramid of Khufu and threatened to commit suicide. The man, in his 20s, was arrested by the tourism police after they had his father and sister talk him down from the pyramid. Egypt’s prosecutor ordered a four-day-detention pending investigation, on charges of endangering himself, in addition to climbing the pyramid – which is prohibited by law and punishable by up to three years in prison. Investigations reveal that the man suffered a psychotic break…


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