Tao Hsiao a 38-year-old Chinese man was very tired of Christmas shopping with his girlfriend for five hours at a mall in Xuzhou, Jiangsu province, east China. Hsiao had enough after the tiring five hours, and demanded to go home. His girlfriend insisted on going to one more shop. Their argument was getting very intense.

One witness said:

‘He told her she already had enough shoes, more shoes that she could wear in a
lifetime and it was pointless buying any more.

‘She started shouting at him accusing him of being a skinflint and of spoiling Christmas, it was a really heated argument.’

The argument ended when Hsiao threw all the bags on the floor and jumped off a nearby balcony seven stories down on some Christmas decorations immediately killing him from the impact of the fall.

Now, this man, died from shopping…literally. Tragic death, that too right before Christmas. So does this mean the girlfriend was responsible for his death? Or was this just suicide?