Posted on 04/16/2006 10:05:42 PM PDT by Panerai
A romantic stargazer who was just days away from whisking away his girlfriend on a surprise Paris trip to pop the question plummeted to his death early yesterday morning when he fell from the roof of his Massachusetts Avenue apartment.
“He had the tickets. He had the ring. He just didn’t have the time,” said Don Coulon, whose 28-year-old son, Gregory, was found dead after falling from the roof at 552 Massachusetts Ave.
Coulon, 28, a Boston University systems analyst and computer programmer, was set to jet his girlfriend of several years, Michelle Kovach, to the City of Lights Wednesday where he planned to ask her to be his bride.
“If two people were meant to be together, it was those two. They finished each other’s sentences. . . . She loved Paris. I think that’s why he wanted to take her back there,” said Don Coulon of Sarasota, Fla.
Coulon, who lived on the sixth floor, was on the roof with a mutual male friend when he disappeared.
Police later found him after opening a door that led to an air shaft in the basement of the apartment building, said Officer Mike McCarthy, a Boston police spokesman.
While police are investigating the death, Paul Coulon thinks his nephew may have been on the roof stargazing.
“He loved astronomy. They were up on the roof looking at the stars, stargazing,” said Paul Coulon, a New Hampshire resident. Coulon was an avid astronomy enthusiast who studied at Space Camp in Huntsville, Ala., as a boy and took astronomy as a major for a short time while he was an undergraduate at BU.
His girlfriend, Kovach, was being comforted in seclusion yesterday by her parents at the apartment she shared with Coulon. The couple had planned to entertain family for Easter dinner.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.bostonherald.com ...
In the dark?
Are you trying to debunk my post or support it?
It's the 12th on Yahoo and 18th on Dogpile.
How many hits do you usually scroll through before you find the one you're looking for?
No matter, the poster she was responding to deserved her response and the nitpicking about her signing up today to rebut the post is just that, nitpicking.
SZ
I just report, you decide. The point is that it wouldn't take very long to get to this post.
Outside of Bruce Willis movies, not many people fall down air shafts.
Yep, if I loved one dies, I can't think of anything better to do than to go on the Internet and find posts about the deceased. That's much better than planning funerals and all that depressing stuff.
That this person has pulled this trick numerous times here at FR, under different screen names (for obvious reasons).
It seems to me like it would be easy enough to arrange a safety net at the bottom of apartment building air shafts; might even make an "A" Ticket ride out of it until the fun police came around.
He/she always has known the person in the article for a long time. The friend was very dear to them. They just happened upon this thread by chance and found the heartlessness cruel. They always refer to the deceased with a shortened familiar version of the name given in the article.
He/she even uses the same phrases to convey outrage each time.
LMAO. Well done, dead, as usual.
There are some on this forum that put a high premium on being witty, or on being the first to post a 'witty' comment. What really gets me is when they do their stupid Darwin award threads on the children who have died by doing foolish and ultimately tragic acts. It's so cruel to those who are here who have lost children in this way.
They were 'together' on the roof according to the story, watching the stars. If he is there one second and the next second he is not there? What would you think, that he flew away?
"Police later found him after opening a door that led to an air shaft in the basement of the apartment building, said Officer Mike McCarthy, a Boston police spokesman."
Huh? Why are they saying he fell off the roof when he must've been shoved down the airshaft by his male "friend" who was upset about his impending "marriage" and trip to Paris? ;)
Call Columbo!
I love the new posters that always show up on these threads claiming to know the victims. *Rolleyes*
for the guests.
I suspect that Owl Eagle's impression of Greg might be a bit... different.
He was such an amazing guy it's surprising he couldn't fly??
Pray for W and Our Troops
Thank you.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.