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Edmonton Balcony Ninja

2007 Reader Submission
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http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news/story.html?id=3d16494f-1421-4f45-ba9b-41b0ab52e1f3&k=55963

Basically, a guy is drunk, wants to crash at his friend's place. His friend probably says no or doesn't answer. So what do you do? That's right! Go into the neighbours appartment and try to be ninja and jump to your friend's balcony on the 16th floor!

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EDMONTON - A 25-year-old man fell to his death from a friend's 16th-floor balcony early Friday when he tried to climb from one balcony to the next.

Friends who identified the dead man as Shawn Sweeney said he was trying to get into his friend's apartment suite from a neighbour's suite when he fell just before 1:30 a.m.

Sweeney's longtime friend is a tenant in one of three highrise apartments at West Edmonton Village, near 173rd Street and 69th Avenue.

A close friend who was with Sweeney when he fell said she followed him onto the neighbour's balcony but didn't realize what he was doing until it was too late.

"If I would have known what he was doing, I wouldn't have let him go," she said tearfully. "It happened so fast."

Sweeney was a warm and bubbly person who had lots of friends and was extremely close to his mother, she said.

He was an avid snowboarder and skateboarder who loved the outdoors and especially the mountains.

"He was so awesome. He was so polite and respectful," said the woman who did not want to be named. "He always thought about his friends before himself and he always made everybody laugh. He had the fastest comebacks. He had the kind of personality that would light up a room."

Sweeney, who had been drinking alcohol, had intended to stay in his friend's suite overnight.

When Sweeney could not get into the locked suite where his friend was sleeping, he decided to try going over the neighbour's balcony.

It appears he knocked on the neighbour's door and asked to crawl over to the adjoining balcony, said acting police Insp. Stewart Callioux.

The neighbour who let Sweeney onto the balcony immediately called for help when Sweeney fell, but Sweeney died at the scene.

Police have finished their investigation.

"It's deemed non-suspicious," Callioux said. "By all accounts, he simply made a poor judgment call."

Sweeney was an oilfield worker originally from the Yukon, said friends who did not want to give their names.

He fell from the centre tower in the set of three 17-storey buildings.

"He didn't deserve this," one friend said.

Continuous concrete balconies line the fronts of all three apartments. Each suite's balcony is separated only by a concrete wall that is about half a metre thick. The face of each balcony is a concrete slab with an inlaid plexiglass window.

Jon Krysler had just gone to bed in his 16th-floor suite in the neighbouring highrise when he heard a loud thud, followed by a woman's frantic screaming.

Thinking the woman was in trouble, Krysler got up to look out his window. That's when he saw a man's body lying on the pavement in the parking area directly in front of the neighbouring highrise. A woman was standing over the man, yelling, 'Oh my God,' Krysler said.

"She said, 'He fell off the balcony.' She was pretty frantic."

Other witnesses converged on the scene and Krysler heard someone yelling, 'Call 911.'

Emergency crews arrived quickly, and paramedics immediately covered the man's body with a blanket, Krysler said.

It was extremely windy outside when the man fell, Krysler noted.

Submitted on 04/07/2007

Submitted by: Alexi Nicoli
Reference: Edmonton Journal - April 07, 2007

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>> Moderator Scores <<

James said:
Maybe Toss: Lacks Excellence
Thanks for sending this in, Alexi! Unfortunately, this article is big on "glurge" ("He was SUCH a nice boy", &c &c) and sparse on detail. More background information might have raised this up a couple of notches, but I'm not exactly feeling it. Nevertheless, we DO appreciate the submission!


Bruce said:
Definitely Toss: Lacks Excellence
I agree with James. We've also had a few other balcony jumper/climber stories recently. Thanks, Alexi.


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