This isn't a story directly about rush, but...
When I was a rho chi, we had training sessions where one of us would act as a rushee/PNM and another of us would be the rho chi counseling her. The "rushee" would be told what scenario to act out, and the PX would have to counsel her accordingly.
I had to "counsel" a "rushee" whose scenario was that she wanted to suicide. And I was supposed to talk her out of it, without mentioning the negative impacts it would have on her possibility of getting a bid - i.e. that she couldn't get a snap bid or get picked up as a quota addition. (This is NOT easy when you know how bid matching works!!)
Unfortunately, she misunderstood her instructions, and started talking about actual suicide - as in jumping off a bridge.
This wouldn't have been so bad if I hadn't actually talked someone out of committing suicide not 3 months earlier.....
