In September of 2005, somewhere between 1:30 and 2:00 pm., 22-year-old Jasmine Fry was visiting the Ala Moana Shopping Center on O'ahu, one of the islands of Hawaii. Clad only in a bikini, and seemingly uninterested in the sun and fun of the Magic Island beach area a couple minutes away by foot (and very visible from where she was), Ms Fry instead decided to sunbathe on a restaurant air duct on part of the shopping center's roof. Being born in Hawaii, Ms. Fry couldn't use ignorance of the area as an excuse for picking that particular spot to "hang out" so to speak, so it's hard to tell exactly what her reasons for being there were.

Or was there a reason? Was she actually hard at work? When mall security initially approached her to ask what she was doing on the roof, Ms Fry was reported to reply that her job was to clean the air ducts. Most likely she soon realized that, bikini-clad as she was, this excuse wasn't really going to hold up to scrutiny. But in classic "Darwin Award Contender" fashion, any thought of simply telling the truth, being embarrassed and perhaps getting a small fine, no more than that at most, she was overcome by the much stronger thought of "I'll hide instead!" whereupon she decided to jump head-first into the aforementioned air duct.

If she was actually working (cleaning services in the area didn't recognize her name as an employee), her duct-diving experience didn't serve her well this day. She worked her way down through the duct, finally becoming stuck with her arms dangling down from one of the restaurants' range hoods. After more than two hours of rescue efforts, she succumbed to a combination of hypothermia and asphyxiation.

Fits Award Rules? -----------------

Reproduction: 22 years old, no mention of spouse or offspring.

Excellence: Jumped down shopping center air duct in bikini head-first.

Self-Selection: Jumped down shopping center air duct in bikini head-first.

Maturity: Over drinking age.

Veracity:

http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2005/Dec/14/ln/FP512140354.html

http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2005/Sep/15/ln/FP509150351.html

Submitted on 08/14/2007

Submitted by: John McClain
Reference: http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2005/Sep/15/ln/FP509150351.html

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Bruce said:
Definitely Keep: Darwin Award
It sounds like she really wanted to convince the security guard that she was a duct cleaner. Thanks for sending this in, John!

Chip said:
Definitely Keep: Darwin Award
Hmmm.... I am of two minds about this one. On the surface it appears to be a stupid death that well qualifies for a Darwin Award. However, other factors come into play. First, the news stories indicate a severe psychotic episode at play here. Do the severely mentally ill win these awards? Second, we rarely award to people who die fleeing the law and there is an element of that here too. I hazard that the sheer bizarreness of the event puts it over the mark so I will also vote a DA. Thanks for the story, John.

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