A thousand-foot-long bridge in southeast China has been coated in butter by authorities, in order to hinder suicide attempts and the traffic jams they cause. The result is surfaces too slippery to climb.

The bridge has been a favorite for some time among people looking to end it all, and officials did everything they could think of to discourage the practice. They put up fences, they positioned guards at each end, but ultimately nothing worked.

That’s when someone presumably discovered a mountain of butter sitting idle in a warehouse somewhere.

http://www.weirdasianews.com/2009/09/20/chinese-butter-bridge-hinders-jumpers/