A Google AdWords Help thread has an advertiser from India who is threatening to kill himself, if Google doesn’t respond to him in the next few hours. Now, suicide is no joking matter, but in this case, this advertiser did not kill himself after a few hours of Google not responding.

Google did indeed reply, a day or so later, explaining that it is the Labor Day weekend and any response will have to really wait until today, Tuesday. The threat from the advertiser came in broken English, here it is:

About a day later, an official Google representative spotted the thread and replied.

Soon after, the Indian advertiser came back in to once again threaten to kill himself if he does not get a response by early Tuesday. He said, “If I do not have a Solution by Tuesday than what I have stated in this forum is my ultimate choice as I have no other options with me left.”

Is this what it has come to? I know Google representatives often reply to threads, but they cannot reply to every thread. So if you really need a response, do you have to go to these extremes?

Forum discussion at Google AdWords Help.