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Man dies in 11-storey fall, Tragic ending to birthday party (Spitting contest!)
Ottawa Sun ^
| 2/24/04
| Andrew Seymour
Posted on 02/24/2004 11:57:04 AM PST by Clintons Are White Trash
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To: AxelPaulsenJr
Nature has a way of weeding out stupid people ....
To: Clintons Are White Trash
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 He would be now be on an eight week waiting list for the one outdated old CAT Scanner in Ottawa available for the general public.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!
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posted on
02/24/2004 3:51:21 PM PST
by
FormerACLUmember
(Man rises to greatness if greatness is expected of him)
To: Clintons Are White Trash
Amen
Darwin at work again cleaning up the gene pool.
To: AxelPaulsenJr
A mere technicality that is unlikely to hinder the revenue-enhancers of the local gendarmes...
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posted on
02/24/2004 6:03:32 PM PST
by
general_re
(Ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant. - Tacitus)
To: general_re
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
To: Criminal Number 18F
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 ;)
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02/24/2004 7:07:42 PM PST
by
general_re
(Ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant. - Tacitus)
To: Clintons Are White Trash
"Momentum carried him beyond."
Nah, surely there has to be an SUV involved somehow.
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02/24/2004 8:42:50 PM PST
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gcruse
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