Last in Line 
2003 Reader Submission
Pending Acceptance
Varkaus, Finland.
At 2.30 a.m. saturday morning, two 22-year-old men too restless to queue in a local hotel's night club, decided to enter the club from above. They climbed up the hotel's fire escape ladder only to find that entering the hotel would require them to go round a ventilation booth blocking their way 30 feet above ground in the other end of a glass and metal walkway between two buildings. To add to the challenge, there was nothing to step on around the booth. The logical thing to do was, of course, not go back and stand in line for ten minutes, but to try and jump around the booth. Miraculously, both men managed to survive the jump, even though it is a known fact that anyone whose alter ego is not Clark Kent has zero manouverability airborne. Once the men were on the other side, they saw that the door on the roof of the hotel was locked. So, to go back and queue, the men had to jump around the booth again. This time, the other man did not make it. The newspaper report says that the clubbers standing in the queue could hear the man falling to his death just a few meters away round the corner. Both men had been drinking, and, obviously, were a bit too eager to drink even more.Submitted on 06/17/2002
Submitted by:
Janne Lehtinen
Reference:
Ilta-Sanomat, June 17, 2002
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