Man leaps to his death from 86th floor observation deck at Empire State Building

New York Daily News ^ | March 30, 2010 | Kerry Burke and John Lauinger

[Bad Jack Bauer]

I always thought you couldn’t make it to the ground due to all the setbacks on the Empire State. Urban Legend I guess.

I was up on the deck a year and a half ago. If you jump off the right spot and push yourself away from the building far enough, you have only one setback to get past.

[Mobties]

I guess they’ve ruled out foul play.

[fhayek]

Reminds me of a guy who committed suicide by jumping off city hall in Buffalo, New York a few years ago. The guy was probably one of life’s losers, so he decides to end it all. So the unlucky bastard leaps, and ends up impaling himself on the flagpole in front of city hall.

[ETL]

Here’s a link to an amazing high resolution panoramic view from the same 86th floor observation deck in which this 21 -year old leaped:

(Size: 1.5 MB, Dimensions: 7,979px × 740px)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/22/Skyline-New-York-City.jpg

[tflabo]

What goes down sometimes stays there.

[PA-RIVER]

Bushes Fault...

[tflabo]

What goes down sometimes stays there.

[DManA]

Now that that’s public knowledge I bet you’ll see a bunch more copycats.

[Cboldt]

-- Prayers for his soul should be directed to St. Rachel the Flattened. --

I am sooo naughty, ROTFL. That is funny.

Not that flattened and splattered people is, I find that sad, but that stained glass window is precious.

[ETL]

Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem.

Exactly. I'm sure many of us, at one time or another, considered it, if even not very seriously. But then we toughed it out and made it through only to experience much happier times again. New York was in the midst of a miserable rain storm for the past two days. I'm sure that didn't help the guy's spirits.

[Bad Jack Bauer]

Now that that’s public knowledge I bet you’ll see a bunch more copycats.

It is public knowledge to anyone who has ever been up on that deck. You look down you can see where you can make it all the way down to the street and where you can't.

[BallyBill]

Kids and their "youtube moments".

Ya made the big time kid, now who is paying for the cleanup?

[Uncle Chip]

His favorite movie was King Kong —

[Doc Savage]

If you elect John Kerry, HE will walk again!! I can fly, I can fly, I can f................!

[joethedrummer]

Yes! Was Dick Cheney seen hanging around there yesterday?

[CholeraJoe]

Must have bounced off. Notice how flat the body is, Rachael Corrie style?

[Loyalist]

Remember the urban legend about killing someone by throwing a penny off the Empire State Building? This is just a more extreme example of the principle.

[Malsua]

Must be the weather.

Some dude offed himself at the Bullet hole shooting range in Belleville NJ last night about the same time roughly 10 miles away.

[Puppage]

That’s not gunna be good for business.

[Malsua]

That’s not gunna be good for business.

They'll be open by noon today. Someone did the same at Brick Armory in Lakewood NJ a few weeks ago and they were open the next day. It's not the fault of the business and it wasn't someone shooting someone else.