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Penn State student from NJ dies in trash-chute plunge
NY Post ^ | 11/19/2021 | Joshua Rhett Miller

Posted on 11/19/2021 11:48:19 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27

A Penn State student and former high school cheerleader fell 11 stories to her death in a trash chute — after allegedly having a bad reaction to a “smoke.”

The body of 19-year-old Justine Gross of Summit, NJ, was discovered last week when a trash hauler emptied its load at a Pennsylvania landfill, her mother told NJ.com on Thursday.

Francoise Gross said her daughter, a communications sophomore at the school in State College, Pa., ended up plunging from the chute into a dumpster where she lived at the Beaver Terrace Apartments about a block from campus.

The shattered mom said Justine’s roommates told her that her daughter had met a young man two days earlier who gave her a “smoke” before the fatal fall.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


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How sad.
1 posted on 11/19/2021 11:48:19 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I wonder if she had help getting into that chute.


2 posted on 11/19/2021 11:51:33 AM PST by seowulf (Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos...Will Durant)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

A terrible terrible tragedy.

God help that poor mother.


3 posted on 11/19/2021 11:52:17 AM PST by miserare ( Respect for life--life of all kinds-- is the first principle of civilization.~~A. Schweitzer.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Shut down every liberal arts school and public school ... teach reading, writing and arithmetic, flavored with history ....

Genesis ... Go back to the beginning.

There's too much fun factor in what should be educational institutions.

4 posted on 11/19/2021 11:56:10 AM PST by knarf (?<p>Little kids grow up to be adults that get into powerful positions and act out their thoughts.<pg)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

In life, there are more chutes than ladders.


5 posted on 11/19/2021 11:56:35 AM PST by thegagline (Sic semper tyrannis)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

So very sad and I grieve for her family. As a Mom of a teen and young adults, I know it takes one stupid, immature act to cause an issue or a tragedy.


6 posted on 11/19/2021 11:56:47 AM PST by momtothree
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Very sad this happened to her. I am not of the view that she did this on her own. I’ve been in some buildings the garbage shutes are more than waist high.


7 posted on 11/19/2021 12:01:43 PM PST by b4me (Repeated lies does Not equal TRUTH. )
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To: momtothree

She must have climbed into the trash chute or pushed.

You can’t fall into it, they have a door to prevent that.


8 posted on 11/19/2021 12:02:42 PM PST by Col Frank Slade
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To: ChicagoConservative27
From the article:

Police in State College have said Gross’ death appears to be accidental, but her mother isn’t entirely convinced, NJ.com reported.

The teen sent a Snapchat message just moments before her fateful plunge telling a friend, “Something just happened” late Nov. 10. Francoise Gross said she traveled to Penn State to meet with cops, who showed her video of her daughter’s final moments.

The footage shows Justine leaving her 10th-floor apartment and walking to meet the man on the seventh floor, where she later leaves while walking unsteadily. She never returned to her apartment — and instead ran into the 11th-floor trash chute room by herself and disappeared, NJ.com reported.

“That’s just not Justine,” her mom said. “She would never do something like that, go down a chute.

“They want me to believe she walked into that chute. I believe someone was chasing her, and she went into the chute, thinking it was a staircase.”

“I will bury her,” Francoise Gross told NJ.com. “But I want to know what happened to her.”

Francoise said cops have questioned the man twice but that “he’s not talking” after hiring a lawyer, according to the report.

State College police didn’t return phone calls Thursday, NJ.com reported. A Penn State spokeswoman said Justine’s death occurred off-campus and that it would be “inappropriate” for the university to interfere with the investigation.

9 posted on 11/19/2021 12:03:21 PM PST by Yo-Yo (is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

She was 19. At a certain point, parents are supposed to step back and let the adult-child start taking control of their own lives.
It’s still a gamble for all concerned.
My sympathies also for the trash collector who just happened to find a dead body lying in the usual trash, rubbish and debris.
That has to be devastating.


10 posted on 11/19/2021 12:04:31 PM PST by lee martell
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To: ChicagoConservative27

THere was video of her running up the stairs. The young man has lawyered up. Her last message to a friend was “something just happened.”


11 posted on 11/19/2021 12:06:02 PM PST by Betty Jane
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Darwin was right? lulz /s


12 posted on 11/19/2021 12:06:25 PM PST by cranked
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To: Yo-Yo

Might have been Angel Dust.


13 posted on 11/19/2021 12:06:56 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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she went into the chute, thinking it was a staircase.

What?

14 posted on 11/19/2021 12:07:53 PM PST by IllumiNaughtyByNature (The kernel of our firm's job is to go with lots. - tnlibertarian job offer letter)
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To: IllumiNaughtyByNature

Maybe the entrance was a small unmarked door. Perhaps she thought it was a fire escape.


15 posted on 11/19/2021 12:11:07 PM PST by lee martell
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To: ChicagoConservative27
plunging from the chute into a dumpster where she lived

She lived in a dumpster? Do writers need even third-grade-level English grammar before being hired?

The shattered mom said

How about not using the word “shattered” to describe anyone in this article?

16 posted on 11/19/2021 12:15:53 PM PST by FoxInSocks ("Hope is not a course of action." -- M. O'Neal, USMC)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Tragic and very sad. Blessings for her family & friends while hoping that she was a believer. God Bless them all!

That being said, and NOT wanting to diminish her, BUT remember that there are many LEFT politicos, Nancy Pelosi included, that want the voting age lowered to 16, 3 years younger than this person. I was a high school sophomore at that age and I saw my classmates doing stupid, crazy and UNTHINKING stuff at that age. Let us remember Ms Justine Gross when you next hear that advocacy.

There is NO universal ‘age of reason’, that is a given. Some people are adults in reasoning at young ages but they are a small minority. Most need age and experience to get the perspective that usually defines adulthood. Me, speaking personally, took till about 25 to feel comfortable in those shoes!


17 posted on 11/19/2021 12:21:54 PM PST by SES1066 (Ask not what the LEFT can do for you, rather ask what the LEFT is doing to YOU!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Agree - how sad what a waste


18 posted on 11/19/2021 12:25:58 PM PST by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy - EVs a solution for which there is no problem)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Smoking kills


19 posted on 11/19/2021 12:26:07 PM PST by bigbob
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To: seowulf
I wonder if she had help getting into that chute.

That's a good question, Those chutes have very heavy doors to keep odors from blowing back into the building.

It would be quite difficult to pull this off by oneself.

20 posted on 11/19/2021 12:31:37 PM PST by usurper ( version )
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