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Spring Breaker Plumets to own Death

2007 Reader Submission
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On Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, Sarah Merritt was attempting to climb from her 6th floor hotel balcony to her neighbor's balcony. The inebriated college spring-breaker couldn't quite hold on as she fell from between the balconies and plumetted to her death. It was not the 60+ foot fall that killed her, but the sudden stop as she hit the concrete.

Submitted on 03/28/2007

Submitted by: Anonymous
Reference: Dayton Daily News (Dayton, OH) March 21, 2007

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Bruce said:
Definitely Keep: Darwin Award
I searched for more articles on this to get more details and it sounds like she had pulled this stunt a few times previously and slipped the last time she tried it. However there was no mention of alcohol in the articles I read. Here's one of them: http://www.wtoctv.com/Global/story.asp?S=6267323. Thanks for the story!

Chip said:
Definitely Keep: Darwin Award
I will go along with this because of the sheer stupidity of climbing from one balcony to the other several times, 50-60 feet up. Why didn't the girl simply go out the door, 5 feet down the hall, and in through the other door? Boggles the mind! There may have been alcohol or drugs involved as the toxicology tests had not come back, but intoxicated or not, repeating this stunt is definitely Darwin worthy. Thanks for the submission

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