Chilean miner Barrios almost stayed voluntarily in the mine.

[DisMN]

Egads can you imagine the emotional state of the rescuers if he had followed through with being left down there?

It really sucks to be him though what with a second mistress coming out of the woodwork.

Chilean miner considered suicide over confronting wife and mistress

2010-10-21 13:30:00




A Chilean miner, who had been trapped underground along with others, is said to have considered death after he came to know that his wife had discovered that he had a secret mistress.

According to myFOXphilly.com, Yonni Barrios did not want to be rescued after he realised that the two women would confront him when he got out.

Jeff Roten, who works for Schramm Inc., the West Chester, Pa., company that drilled the rescue hole into the mine, and who was on the site for 36 days, said rescuers spent 20 days convincing Barrios to leave the mine.

"When I first arrived, they said 32 men. I couldn't figure out for the longest time-the news said 33. I finally started talking to people," the New York Post quoted Roten as saying.

"There was one man down there, I guess, had a mistress and a wife. And he wanted to stay down in the hole. After about 20 days, the guy finally decided to change his mind and come on out," Roten stated.

Barrios' wife, Marta Salinas, discovered her husband's infidelity at a vigil at the collapsed San Jose mine when she heard Susana Valenzuela shouting his name.

Salinas refused to greet her husband when he emerged from the mine last week.

The Telegraph reported that Valenzuela later told Colombian radio station La FM she was not Barrios' only mistress, and that a 25-year-old woman, who claimed to have had a relationship with him, had attempted to visit him in the hospital following his rescue.

Valenzuela said she barred the woman from entering the hospital. (ANI)

 

[Disney Doll]

Seems like Mr.Barrios was a bit busy....

 

[BCV513]

If I was Mrs. Barrios, I would have been waiting at the top of that mine to push Mr. Barrios right back in.

 

[DisMN]

No kidding! I mean talk about bad timing on his part. LOL LOL

You have more than a few mistresses, don't go gettin' yourself stuck in a hole so long that they all come looking for you! LOL

 

[Imzadi]

Egads can you imagine the emotional state of the rescuers if he had followed through with being left down there?

I find that a bit implausible. I don't know what the laws/rules governing suicide are in Chile. Like here, hospitals put restraints on patients on suicide watch, and I think sedate them. I would think it would be immoral and highly improbable for the rescue workers to just leave a guy down there, just because he wanted to die down there. Plus, the owners of the mining operation might have something to say about it.

I imagine, they would bring down a couple psychiatrists to talk to him, then if that failed, jab him with a loaded hypodermic sedative. Once Barrios was knocked out, stuff him in the Phoenix capsule, then transport him to a padded cell and deal with his issues later, above ground.


I'd like to know what this guy has got to get 3 women. George Clooney he is NOT.

It also doesn't look like he's got real cahones where it counts, in terms of facing all the women for his actions.

 

[okeydokey]

I think the media has sensationalized this by huge amounts. His family said he had left his wife months ago and was living with his mistress, so his wife was in no way surprised.

 

[DisMN]

I find that a bit implausible. I don't know what the laws/rules governing suicide are in Chile. Like here, hospitals put restraints on patients on suicide watch, and I think sedate them. I would think it would be immoral and highly improbable for the rescue workers to just leave a guy down there, just because he wanted to die down there. Plus, the owners of the mining operation might have something to say about it.



I'd like to know what this guy has got to get 3 women. George Clooney he is NOT.

It also doesn't look like he's got real cahones where it counts, in terms of facing all the women for his actions.

Oh I agree they would have HAD to drag him out kicking and screaming but lets just say they DID leave him down there....that's the scenario I was *imagining*. LOL

I think the media has sensationalized this by huge amounts. His family said he had left his wife months ago and was living with his mistress, so his wife was in no way surprised.

I hadn't heard this! I wonder then why he was so distraught? Doesn't make sense does it?

 

[lovetoscrap]

I think the media has sensationalized this by huge amounts. His family said he had left his wife months ago and was living with his mistress, so his wife was in no way surprised.

I read this too. I don't think we are really getting the whole story and that somethings that may have been said in jest are being taken as the truth or the truth is being twisted-- I know, can you believe the media would do something like that???

Seems that the more likely meshing of the stories is that he left his wife and was living with the mistress and at the vigil both were there and either met for the first time or just had a very emotional reaction to realizing the other was there.

We had joked that maybe he would be better off staying in the mine than coming up to face them so those sorts of jokes/comments may have been being made by the men in the mine or by the people above as this was all being played out.

As for the 2nd mistress it sounds like any "old girlfriend" situation. She cared enough to come and check on him and the current girlfriend wasn't having any of that.

 

[Imzadi]

Oh I agree they would have HAD to drag him out kicking and screaming but lets just say they DID leave him down there....that's the scenario I was *imagining*. LOL

Well, in that case, I would have like to have seen the three women go DOWN to confront him. Kind of like they get to vote whether he's allowed to come up after all. Of course, the rescue workers would have had to clear the place of rocks and sharp tools, before hand.

 

[DisMN]

Well, in that case, I would have like to have seen the three women go DOWN to confront him. Kind of like they get to vote whether he's allowed to come up after all. Of course, the rescue workers would have had to clear the place of rocks and sharp tools, before hand.

LOL Thanks for playing my game Imzadi! LOL I love your voting idea.


But still.........why was he so scared to come out of the mine? He was positively ashen when he came out and none of the other guys were so it didn't seem to have anything to do with no sunlight.