The Haizhu Bridge in Guangzhou, China has been smeared with rich, creamy butter to stop suicides.

Chinese workers covered the giant steel bridge with butter because officials are fed up with traffic jams caused by people who slow down to watch suicide victims leaping to their death.

A Government spokesman said “We try employ guards at both ends but that not work. We put up big fences and tell people not to commit suicide here. So now we have put butter over the bridge and it work very well. Nobody can get up there and anybody who tries fall down”

Since we put up the butter there have been no problems with these attention seekers

In one month alone eight people committed suicide on the bridge and numerous others had climbed up threatening to commit suicide before changing their minds.

The bridge guard said: “Each time somebody threatens to commit suicide to get media attention or sympathy over personal problems we end up with several hours of tailbacks and there were lots of complaints. Since we put up the butter there have been no problems with these attention seekers.”