Posted on 03/25/2023 10:16:50 AM PDT by BenLurkin
The New Jersey college student who died on spring break last week tragically plunged to his death from the third floor of a Puerto Vallarta, Mexico hotel while trying to help a girl retrieve an ID or phone she dropped from her balcony, The Post has learned.
Henry Meacock, 19, perished at the Melia Hotel on March 15 while trying to jump from one balcony to another, the Jalisco state attorney general and medical examiner told The Post.
The Ohio State University student was the second person to fall from the third floor of the Melia this month, Noticias Puerto Vallarta reported.
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Maybe the hotel should post some signs, with pictures of the splat.
Do they not teach physics classes there?
College students are known for their willingness to take risks but not known for their wisdom in when and how to do it.
What a tragedy.
In a split second, Spring Break can turn into Fall Break
Don’t know how risky it was.
My daughter lives in a sorority house at OSU across the street from the frat house where this guy lived. Word is he was alive and doing okay when they got him to the hospital in Mexico, then he died. And the story was, he was trying to get the other persons phone- not an ID.
He seemed like a really nice kid. His funeral is today.
https://www.higginsandbonner.com/obituary/Henry-Meacock
Also don’t know about the jumping from one balcony to the other balcony. Word was he took a step and whatever he stepped on gave way
Dude is wearing a Led Zeppelin shirt- that alone separates him from the rest
“while trying to jump from one balcony to another”
Spring break, beer, cell phones, Mexico, machismo, balconies, hormones raging and wanting to impress the girl...what could possibly go wrong?
Poor kid. There’s nothing worse than being invincible in your teens...at least until you die.
I feel so sorry for his parents, brothers and sisters, and other loved ones.
“Don’t know how risky it was.”
Trying to jump from one balcony to another three stories up. I have a pretty good idea how risky that was.
Probably drunk as a skunk too.
Prize won.
This is what the front desk/maintenance is for.
You know how risky it was?? How do you know he actually jumped?? Because the Mexican authorities are saying so?
I suggest you reread my posts 7 & 9 than actually read the story:”“He tried to get it for her, stepped on the plexiglass and it gave way and he fell.”
Reports from the get go were he stepped down to get the girls phone and what he stepped on gave way. This is very likely the Mexicans trying to cover their butts
Sad and tragic and a waste. And I can’t help but think there was alcohol involved.
Nineteen, feeling immortal.
Mexican building codes are not that reliable.
“Also don’t know about the jumping from one balcony to the other balcony. Word was he took a step and whatever he stepped on gave way”
That’s what I read also. Stepped on plexiglass, it gave way, no jumping involved, probably didn’t seem THAT risky.
Most likely experienced a traumatic brain injury. Later brain swelling kills them.
https://mayfieldclinic.com/pe-tbi.htm
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