Posted on 11/16/2017 6:25:15 AM PST by Thistooshallpass9
A game of “trust” took a deadly turn for an Australian diplomat, who plunged to his death from his Manhattan balcony early Wednesday during a night of boozing with friends and his wife, police sources said. Julian Simpson, 30, fell from the seventh floor to a second-floor landing at the Clinton Street building where he lived on the Lower East Side around 1:35 a.m., the sources said. Simpson was playing a “trust game” with a male pal when he accidentally took the fatal fall, a source said. “I will prove it that you can trust me. Let’s play the trust game,” Simpson said to the 24-year-old man just moments before he slipped and fell, sources said. Simpson and his wife were out with friends for dinner and drinks before the group returned back to the Clinton Street residence and went up to the building’s wraparound roof deck to the enjoy the views of the Empire State Building, witnesses said. The iconic landmark tower was lit up in rainbow colors in celebration of Australia’s same-sex marriage vote. While on the roof, the diplomat, who serves as the second secretary to the UN for Australia, then climbed to a higher roof landing where he began swinging a female friend around, sources said. Once he put her down, everyone decided to go back inside. While inside, the 24-year-old man, who is the husband of the woman Simpson had been swinging, confronted Simpson over the gesture, sources said. The two men then stepped out onto Simpson’s balcony...
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Nothing is ever a coincidence...
I guess he misplaced his ‘trust’.......................
Wonder what he knew?
rwood
Darwin at minimum wage did a decent job here. My money is a Clinton Foundation recreational team building activity is going to involve a lot of these trust games in the next few months. Rooftops, Russian Roulette, Duck Duck Drive by, my botch your botch robbery, pin the wad cutter, crash the plane, etc.....
aka....I’m with Stupid...
Yeah, sure, accidentally took a fall during a trust game. /s
Was alcohol a factor? /S
Well he actually didn’t die on Clinton Street. It really depends on the definition of what “on” means? I mean he hit the second floor balcony. Clinton street per say had no role in this sad murder......I mean trust game gone botch.
No foul play?? Maybe think about it a little. are all the witnesses?
Well at least he had an enjoyable last meal.
Watch friend and wife now.
No diplomatic immunity from gravity.
Nothing suspicious there...
One possibly angry man (it was his wife being swung around on a rooftop)...said man also possibly drunk...and another drunk man...impromptu trust game....alcohol, argument, anger and altitude...no good for survival.
Ban tall buildings above 8 feet.
No fake marriage in Australia; no celebration/drunk; no death.
At least not today.
Is this UN trash here dinning and boozing on our dime?
Good riddance
Act stupid with my wife then moments later want to trust me to keep you from falling 7 floors?
Are all Australians as stupid as you were?
The coincidence is that he really did live on the second floor !
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