Man dies in 11-storey fall, Tragic ending to birthday party (Spitting contest!)

Ottawa Sun ^ | 2/24/04 | Andrew Seymour

[tx_eggman]

Nature has a way of weeding out stupid people ....

[FormerACLUmember]

It actually could have been worse for the unfortunate and tragic Mr. Ameer "AJ" Jinah.

He could have somehow survived the fall. He would be now be on an eight week waiting list for the one outdated old CAT Scanner in Ottawa available for the general public.

The politicians have their own personal state-of-the-art scanners at the National Defense Hospital. Sorry socialist elite only, no peons allowed!

[CHICAGOFARMER]

Amen

Darwin at work again cleaning up the gene pool.

[general_re]

A mere technicality that is unlikely to hinder the revenue-enhancers of the local gendarmes...

[Criminal Number 18F]

11 Stories is a lot more than 30 metres -- I make it to be about double that, 60m/200 ft. He'd have been closing in on a tumbling person's terminal velocity of 35-40 m/sec -- an unsurvivable impact (about 60-70 kilojoules), absent highly unusual circumstances in the deceleration.

d.o.l.

Criminal Number 18F

[general_re]

60m seems much too high to me - here's an eleven story building that tops out at 122 feet. Of course, I haven't measured this particular building in Ottawa, and I'm sure there's a lot of variance from one eleven story building to the next. Probably the easiest way to find out would be to knock on the door of this apartment and ask to borrow their balcony for a moment - toss a bowling ball off and time the fall for a distance estimate ;)

[gcruse]

"Momentum carried him beyond."

Nah, surely there has to be an SUV involved somehow.