Man jumps in protest of autistic son's lost benefits.

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Ouch! That really looked painful.

I hope he got the attention he needed for his cause.

Yeah, because that's the way to fix the problem

I'm not entirely sure what he was trying to achieve by that... but he did get some attention I suppose... Romania isn't exactly renowned for it's disability care though.

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Could be worse, could be China, where there are ignorant beliefs that people who have disorders are demonic hell spawns and shame the family. Quite similar to the irgnorance of Fae-Changeling era Europe...

Could be worse, could be China, where there are ignorant beliefs that people who have disorders are demonic hell spawns and shame the family. Quite similar to the irgnorance of Fae-Changeling era Europe...

"Cost-cutting measures aimed at lifting Romania's economy out of recession", she says? Isn't that a bit like "binge-drinking contest aimed at lifting him out of alcoholism"?

I find this moving and admirable.

I was surprised at how slowly everyone in the room seemed to be moving after the guy landed @ 0:21. No one ran to help him...what's up with that?

Well, if they ever try to cut my daughter's benefits, I know what I'm going to be doing at my state capital of Olympia.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

What a lonely, desperate and stressed out action to take!

His autistic son, now is without his dad whilst he recovers in hospital. The dad may even face prosecution,who knows?

I read somewhere that in 2012 Aspergers may be removed from the American DSM listing for what constitutes a mental health condition. For while this would be a welcome correction due to the fact that Asperger's is a brain development issue, as I understand it, the resulting changes in what is or is not recognised as a disability might affect disability allowance or even become an obstacle in getting Asperger's recognised as a condition.

Perhaps anyone who might be affected by this should speak out now and put pressure on the policy makers before changes becomewritten in stone, so to speak.

Romanians know all about austerity. The 1980s was a time of the great national debt repayment drive and massive austerity. The debt was paid off in early 1989 and so Ceausescu could have decided to stop the madness but naturally he did not and consequently he did not survive the year.

I am disgusted to see news articles tell lies like claim that austerity helps get countries out of recession. That's like saying that the way to cure hypothermia is to put someone in a freezer. It's so clearly false and yet it's reported as truth. There's a clear political agenda at play when such lies are told.

I agree that there is something to that.

I expect to see a lot more of this sort of activity in the UK as stringent, vicious, unjustified and frankly murderous benefits cuts take hold. There have already BEEN deaths, but none quite so public. To be honest, it won't be too long before we will be able to hold up the Romanian health-care and benefits system FROM THE 80S as a shining paragon of brilliance and best practice compared to what we in the UK are going to end up with. I hope everybody is cutting out their own Black Triangle to go on their camp uniform. Saves time and government money that way, because we all know there is no money left (apart from the billions going to the bankers in bonuses, and the billions lost in public sector fraud...but APART from that.. there is no money left, k?)