at about 10.45 saturday evening, our intrepid (aren’t they all?) partygoer at a gold coast (queensland) apartment block, decided that he would descend from the eleventh floor to the ninth floor. now some of us might use one of the more conventional methods, viz. the stairs or the lift. our hero? he would use the outside of the building. he made it to the ninth floor; and this is where ‘brain failure’ really kicked in. ‘i’ve made it to the ninth floor, so why not continue to the eighth floor’, he probably thought. about this time, several other factors, unforeseen by our client, intervened: a. the goddess fortuna and her wheel; b. isaac newton and his universal law of gravitation; and

c. the coefficient of friction.

missing his footing, our hero fell the remaining floors (not stopping at his goal of the eighth floor), fell through an awning, and landed in the foyer of the apartment block. a police spokesman said that ‘it did not happen very often, [but] people did sometimes fall from high-rise buildings on the coast’. our previously, no doubt, tired and emotional hero died at 3.00am sunday.

Submitted on 01/02/2007

Submitted by: john bettes
Reference: the australian, january 2, 200

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Graham said:
Neutral: Other
Although we have this story, John, I do prefer your write-up. I'll let Darwin decide on this one. What say other Mods?

James said:
Neutral: For Darwin's Eyes
Agreed. I like this write-up. Even though we have a few similar stories in the archives, I will let Darwin decide on this one!

Jack said:
Definitely Keep: For Darwin's Eyes
I haven'l seen this particular story, but I agree that the write-up is good enough to keep for Darwin to look at.

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