Don't try this at home.... 
2003 Reader Submission
Pending Acceptance
Just getting this one in early, before it breaks the news. Will follow up by posting full article when published on Friday 4th Oct.
A 25 year old man has died whilst attempting to jump between two multi-storey car parks in Maidenhead, Uk on 29 Sep 2002. Apparently he had been trying to emulate a recent TV advert screened on BBC TV where a man goes from office to home by leaping between buildings, over fences, around antenna, etc. The man in the advert is a highly trained athlete who I recollect originates from Paris. This whole "building jumping" scenario was created by a group of bored young men, inspired by Oriental Movies. They have made their past time into quite an art form, describing it as a martial art. Indeed, they have even been the subject of a feature length movie. However, with this Darwin Award Nominee, the young man had failed to take into account one or two facts; he was neither highly trained or capable of carrying out this task, he could not have made the 20' gap and had failed to consider the results of hitting hard concrete from a height of 40'. The result was inevitable............ Submitted on 10/01/2002
Submitted by:
Mark Garner
Reference:
Unpublished as yet..........
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