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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yep.
Yeah, he seemed like a nice kid. So sad. He was also a Kappa Sig.
As i said previously- my daughter goes to OSU and while she didn’t know this young man personally- she knows his friends and lives not far from the frat house she lived in.
Both she and my wife, who frequents OSU facebook pages, say the word is he was not in bad condition and they thought he was going to make it but “surprisingly” died in the hospital. Granted I don’t know all the details but thus far it looks like malfeasance on the part of the Mexicans.
“He tried to get it for her, stepped on the plexiglass and it gave way and he fell.”
Wait what? A Plexigrass 'floor' insert gapping between concrete balconies? And went through the second floor Plexigrass insert then as well?
And yeah I know it was a phone.
Makes no sense.
It can happen. Break a limb and sustain an internal injury in a fall. While the docs have all their attention focused on the limb, the untreated internal injury turns fatal.
Very, very true- learned this as a kid. My best friend, who was 13, was on his newspaper route (45 years ago), when the brakes on his 10 speed broke. He went head first into a tree. The doctors were concentrating on his brain- and only his brain- in the hospital. He died of a ruptured spleen.
Just a posted notice to remind us all.
Dear FRiends, our 1st qtr FReepathon is running behind. It looks like we’re not going to hit our target, but with your help, maybe we can at least get it over 90%. 3/25/2023, 11:36:11 AM · by Jim Robinson
Here, hold my beer I got this.
They probably do; however, physics students are not inclined to go on those sort of outings.
“Physics” and millennials, That is a good one.
Like, math is HARD dude!
Bet he doesn’t do that again.
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