Forum poster has threatened suicide (ADMINS HELP)

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This is just one of the posts this person made, describing their intentions to slit their wrists and commit suicide. This was posted yesterday around 7-8pm. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0831387/board/thread/229852320?d=229864822#229864822

Granted, the original post has been deleted, but many people responded to it expressing their concern.  I actually ended up calling 911 upon advice from the Suicide Prevention Hotline.  The user messaged me which I found today, stating they were not going to commit suicide and that s/he was stopped from doing it but that s/he was going to try again.  Since I don't know how to access my inbox I don't know how to look at the message again to see the username.  If someone could trace his/her IP address to make sure s/he is still OK please let me know. Thanks.
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Johan Bolin

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I do not know if this is the same person, but I found a user threatening suicide on the x-men days of future past forum. Goes under the name of renaissancewheelwright.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1877832/board/thread/229875748

I believe this is a desperate cry for help. I hope she can get it in time.

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Hamza Ansari

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Yes that is the one. The post was deleted last time I checked but you got the username right. Are you an admin? 
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Hi Hamza Ansari,

Calling 911 upon advice from the Suicide Prevention Hotline was the correct course of action.

The user posted the same threat of suicide on multiple message boards. Since there is no way of telling whether this is a serious threat, a cry for help or a sick joke, we have to error on the side of caution.
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It would help if I could get this to the attention of an admin. Calling 911 didn't help, since the operator told me there was nothing they could do on their end to trace the forum post or the person's IP address.  They said I would have to contact the owner of the site, and I'm having a hard time finding someone here who has access to IP information.  The address can be easily traced from the IP here: http://www.ip-tracker.org/
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I've passed on the information privately to IMDb senior staff.
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No use. even if you have the IP address of the forum poster,  the exact location cannot be traced. All you can do is just find his/her basic geographical location like country, state, ISP, etc through any IP lookup site like http://www.ip-details.com/ only the police can find the exact location with the help of ISP.
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