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BREAKING NEWS – Amsterdam, Netherlands – Several rescuers have been arrested after encouraging a man to take his open life in Harlingen harbor in northern Netherlands. The man told police that when they approached his sinking boat, they told him that they were “sick and tired of saving wannabe captains”, and then they encouraged him “to go down with the ship”. When he bursted into tears explaining that he always had a fear of drowning, they tossed him a noose and demanded that he hang himself.