What a shame.
I was out there last week and sat in the courtyard of a breakfast place as the students went into class.
Oh my did I make a mistake by not going straight to college.
Didn’t see this guy fall, musta been watching the cuties.
I wonder what the legal limit for climbers is. Whatever it is; I'm guessing he was over that one too.
Was it the buildings themselves or just the entirety of the student body and administration? Either way, it will be missed. Now, we just have ASU and NAU. (:
Its too bad someone didn’t warn the Universtiy that they’d had too many.
“Go home University. You’re Drunk.”
Should’ve been doing his homework instead of boozing it up.
Thinking back to my college days, “There, but for the Grace of God....”
sorry for the dead... but i do appreciate the quick wit of so many FReepers..
Very strange. Most universities get loaded during Spring Break and fall off a balcony somewhere in Mexico.
so how far was the fall? is that the right way to ask that question? anyway--did he fall 10 feet? does not seem that high... or is the tower 20 feet from the top of the roof? still, if he landed on the top roof, that is still 10 feet... i guess he could die falling one story, but i am curious...
The fact that his blood alcohol content was “more than twice the legal limit for driving” has absolutely nothing to do with anything. The “legal limit for driving” is arbitrarily low, so that anyone can be determined as drunk if they have any detectable amount of alcohol. This way, they can be charged thousands of dollars in fines and attorneys’ fees to help keep the municipal bureaucracies running. I am certainly not saying that there shouldn’t be some restrictions on alcohol consumption while or prior to driving, I just think that the .08% measure is very close to almost negligible.
Now this university that fell off of a tower was not operating a motor vehicle. He was climbing a tower, which is stupid on its own. He probably would have died anyway, because of the principles of Darwinism, more than having had a couple of beers. He was probably clumsy. I’m sorry he died, especially because they think they can blame it on alcohol.
The parents will probably sue the person(s) that provided the booze to a 19-year-old.
Unexpected!
My first year in college, I had a buddy on my dorm floor (9’th floor) nicknamed “Jack Daniels” who used to climb out his window and walk the 5-inch ledge over to neighboring windows in order to horse around with people. Didn’t matter if there was snow on the ledge... he did it all the time (well, mainly when drunk).
The Bigger they are the Harder they Fall.
1) Get shellacked.
2) Climb to top of high structure.
3) Fall from high structure because your sense of balance isn’t adequte to support a stable crawl, let alone a dangerous climb.
4) Die.
Seems like a logical sequence to me.
Typical example of being “that guy” in college. Hey, that guy is climbing the roof top tower. Hey I think that guy is drunk. Hey that guy just fell on his head off the roof top tower...uh oh. hey I think that guy is DEAD.
Natural selection.
Did the University have a spouse or children? Had it been depressed lately?
Sounds like undocumented suicide.