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Fledgling actor dies after fall down chimney of Michigan Avenue hotel
http://www.chicagotribune.com ^ | december 14, 2012 | ellen jean hirst

Posted on 12/14/2012 2:49:35 AM PST by lowbridge

Nicholas Wieme loved making short films when he was growing up in a small town in Minnesota, a theatrical passion that would lead him to Chicago.

On Wednesday evening, the 23-year-old climbed onto the roof of the InterContinental Chicago hotel, with its famed onion-shaped dome, to take photographs when the night went terribly wrong.

Wieme fell into a smokestack and became wedged, beginning an elaborate, hourslong rescue attempt by firefighters that ultimately proved futile.

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


TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: chicago; chimney; sourcetitlenoturl

1 posted on 12/14/2012 2:49:48 AM PST by lowbridge
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To: lowbridge

Sad. Part of me wonders if there was some type of prank involved. A guy named Nick in a chimney etc


2 posted on 12/14/2012 2:57:30 AM PST by Bronco_Buster_FweetHyagh (I cling to guns and religion.)
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To: lowbridge

Another Darwin Award winner—


3 posted on 12/14/2012 2:59:34 AM PST by Bender2 ("I've got a twisted sense of humor, and everything amuses me." RAH Beyond this Horizon)
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To: lowbridge

Bet this dumbo’s family sue the InterContinental hotel.


4 posted on 12/14/2012 2:59:58 AM PST by MIchaelTArchangel (Have a wonderful day!)
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To: lowbridge

Oh my gosh. How horrible. Prayers for his family.


5 posted on 12/14/2012 3:06:08 AM PST by sneakers (Go Sheriff Joe!)
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To: MIchaelTArchangel

All entries to roofs are typically locked. So he had to know some employee in the hotel who had access to the keys. There’s more to the story.


6 posted on 12/14/2012 3:11:41 AM PST by pepsionice
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To: lowbridge

Poor guy. RIP.


7 posted on 12/14/2012 3:18:39 AM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: pepsionice

Even if it were inadvertently left open, it still was a restricted area. Wonder if the autopsy will reveal he had been drinking (too much). To take deliberate and unnecessary risks is not funny even though he was a comedian. How horrible for those he left behind. For one that has succeeded as he did, he might have thought nothing bad could happen to him.


8 posted on 12/14/2012 3:25:03 AM PST by presently no screen name
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To: lowbridge

Actors often project a lack of good sense.


9 posted on 12/14/2012 3:29:57 AM PST by bmwcyle (We have gone over the cliff and we are about to hit the bottom)
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To: lowbridge

Sad and unfortunate, but this sounds like yet another “hold my beer” moment gone bad. He falls down the stack, then endangers rescue personnel who tried to pull his sorry self out.

The moral of this story is.. if you want rooftop pics,buy postcards.


10 posted on 12/14/2012 5:02:25 AM PST by ScottinVA (I've never been more disgusted with American voters.)
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To: lowbridge

Darwin material. You can’t prevent stupidity.


12 posted on 12/14/2012 5:12:45 AM PST by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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To: lowbridge

Tragic. But Jamie Minor take the prize for bizarre hvac deaths.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2009186/Jamie-Minor-Missing-Texan-hostess-body-trapped-air-duct.html


13 posted on 12/14/2012 5:20:58 AM PST by Antioch (Benedikt Gott Geschickt)
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To: lowbridge

Alcohol gives one a false sense of bravado. Safe to say he had a “few” cocktails beforehand.


14 posted on 12/14/2012 5:27:51 AM PST by Mountain Mary (Pray for our Republic...)
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To: Antioch

Too bad he died but my guess it was due to his own stupidity or alcohol, more than likely both.

What really bugs me is that some unfortunate fireman had to risk HIS life in an attempt to save the victim. The “hero’s” (Firemen, Mountain Rescue people and others) have to risk their lives because, as others have noted, the Darwin candidate(s) screwed up and got themselves into a pickle they counld not get out of on their own.


15 posted on 12/14/2012 5:34:53 AM PST by DaveA37
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To: lowbridge

True story.

Kid I went to grade school with years ago became a teen delinquent and tried to break into a closed school. He fell down a chimney and apparently died on impact. He became a Milk Carton missing kid, until several years later when they demolished the school and discovered his remains.

He was identified by his Led Zeppelin belt buckle. However, despite the best efforts of the Coroner, his family refused to claim his remains. His mother had apparently seen a psychic who convinced her that her son had run away and was married and living in Texas with his own family.

After months of trying to convince her to claim the body they were just going to cremate him and bury him in Potters Field. Some minister on the other side of town saw this in the papers, took the body and buried him in a grave on his church’s property.


16 posted on 12/14/2012 6:25:47 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: lowbridge

Guess he shouldnt have done his own stunts.


17 posted on 12/14/2012 9:31:36 AM PST by crosshairs (Too many things to say. Not enough room.)
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To: lowbridge
If only the director had yelled cut in time...


18 posted on 12/14/2012 10:34:06 AM PST by Freeeedooomm
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To: Freeeedooomm

.!


19 posted on 12/14/2012 10:37:33 AM PST by skinkinthegrass (Who'll take tomorrow,spend it all today; who can take your income & tax it all away..0Bama man can :)
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