Posted on 02/14/2005 12:42:44 PM PST by Calpernia
NEWARK, N.J. -- A man arriving from Portugal apparently committed suicide in a janitor's closet at Newark Liberty International Airport.
Authorities said the 39-year-old Maryland man was found by a cleaner Sunday afternoon. The man's name was being withheld while authorities tried to reach relatives.
The man apparently hanged himself between his walk from the plane and the customs checkpoint to re-enter the United States.
Authorities said the man, a U.S. citizen, was scheduled to make a connecting flight to Washington, D.C.
The Essex County Medical Examiner's Office planned to perform an autopsy.
I tried googling his name and didn't come up with anything.
no sympathy for suiciders - Ever - fricking COWARDS
Apparently this was a "hang-over".
(sorry...)
I followed the link up near the top of the page (somewhere in the 50's). On the sidebar of the site was this story as well:
http://www.nynewsday.com/news/local/wire/newjersey/ny-bc-nj--airline-cocaineri0214feb14,0,265667.story?coll=ny-region-apnewjersey
I'm not suggesting anything here, I just found it interesting that it was on the sidebar of the story we're discussing, that's all. It may be somewhere else out in FR land and I didn't see it.
Ba..Da..Da.. Bing
Moral of story: Don't hang around at Newark.
Precisely. Why didn't he off himself before he even got on the plane? Or why didn't he wait until he had returned to Maryland?
In the travel time from Lisbon to Newark, what could have changed his state-of-mind?
Why couldn't it have waited until he returned home? Choosing to act within such a limited time frame, between the gate and customs, under a circumstance that could not possibly have been convenient (how does one go about hanging oneself in a janitor's closet?), strongly suggests something is rotten in the state of EWR.
Newark Airport is not a nice place. I can understand why someone would want to take the fast way out.
Indeed!
Maybe he had just broken up with a fiance in Portugal, or something sad like that.
However, it's such an odd place for a suicide. How did he know the cleaning lady wouldn't come back before he finished the job?
Now, what if...you were an Al Quaeda agent who was supposed to BLOW UP that plane after it left Portugal, and you got cold feet, and you couldn't do it, because you were still halfway human.
Are the Jersey Jihadists at it again?
Someone was waiting for him when he arrived back in the U.S.
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