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Boy crushed by suicide jumper
The Washington Times ^ | August 8, 2004 | UPI

Posted on 08/09/2004 5:26:51 AM PDT by thegreatbeast

Nishinomiya, Japan, Aug. 8 (UPI) -- A 20-year-old student died Sunday in Japan when a man who leaped from the top of a high-rise building landed on top of him.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Japan; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: bad; luck; schlemiel; schlemozzle; suicide
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To: thegreatbeast
Sometimes it's just not your day:

A woman was killed while canoeing the Brule river in NW Wisconsin. She was struck by a falling poplar tree which had been gnawed thru by a beaver.

41 posted on 08/09/2004 9:01:27 AM PDT by ImProudToBeAnAmerican (Bill raped, Monica swallowed, Hillary totally sucks.)
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To: whd23

"A 20-year-old student died..."


He was a big hit on campus.


42 posted on 08/09/2004 9:14:30 AM PDT by Manic_Episode ("Wars teach us not to love our enemies, but to hate our allies.")
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To: Mercat

"He left a note saying he was aiming to hit a tour boat so he would take people with him. A thoroughly evil man."

That is truly strange and evil.



43 posted on 08/09/2004 10:42:16 AM PDT by jocon307
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To: whd23
Shouldn't that read "Man" or at least "Young Man" ?

Don't you remember how college students act?

44 posted on 08/09/2004 11:17:19 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Kerry/Edwards--Celebrity Metrosexual Ticket 2004)
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To: thegreatbeast

Maybe the jumper was commemorating the anniversary of "Fat Man" being dropped on Nagasaki.


45 posted on 08/09/2004 11:31:04 AM PDT by weegee (YOU could have been aborted, and you wouldn't have had a CHOICE about it.)
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To: freepertoo
Wondering if anyone saw the extremely dismal movie, "Hours"

I have a rule of thumb for movies: If it has Meryl Streep, it's bound to contain some kind of "important" preachy message, so I avoid it. I have another rule of thumb: If a writer or artist committed suicide, that negates everything they said or did before. Virginia Woolfe's choices were unfortunate, and her stories are baleful and depressing. I don't need that.

46 posted on 08/09/2004 2:39:56 PM PDT by giotto
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To: giotto

I must remember your Meryl Streep rule...jotting that down now.... ;-D Great advice.


47 posted on 08/19/2004 6:08:20 AM PDT by freepertoo
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