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Beer, baseball, and an escalator

2008 Reader Submission
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Its referred to as an all American past-time. You go to a baseball game, you eat some hot dogs and you drink some beer. Most people calmly exit the game in a orderly fashion, talking about how so-and-so hit a home run or how so-and-so struck out. However, 36-year-old Antonio Nararainsami of Brooklyn, NY was not the type of man to wait around for the crowd to shuffle along! No! Instead of just riding the escalator down as nature intended - he decided somewhere in his beer saturated brain that the moving railing served more purpose than just a place to hold on. His otherwise alcohol infused brain forgot to observe that he was indeed 4 stories up.

Mr. Nararainsami lost his balance and plummeted the four stories down, where he later died at the hospital 25 minutes later.

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NEW YORK (CNN) -- A man fell to his death after a baseball game between the New York Mets and Washington Nationals at Shea Stadium on Tuesday night, police said.

The man was sliding down an escalator as fans left the stadium when he lost his balance and fell four stories at about 10 p.m., the New York Police Department said in a statement.

He died about 25 minutes later at Booth Memorial Hospital.

Police identified the man as 36-year-old Antonio Nararainsami of Brooklyn.

They said they are investigating the death as an accident

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Submitted on 04/16/2008

Submitted by: Cathy Mieczkowski
Reference: CNN & 4/16/08

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Chip said:
Definitely Keep: Darwin Award
This type of recreational stupidity is almost becoming too common to note. We had two cases of escalator sliders meeting their demise last year - one at a baseball game as well. But I suppose I will give one more a nod. Thanks for the submission, Cathy.


Bruce said:
Definitely Keep: Darwin Award
And alcohol helps remove yet another idiot from the gene pool. Yes, we've gotten a few of these recently but I think this one has the others beat in part because a 4 story fall is much higher than the other cases. Thanks, Cathy.


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