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Balcony Jumper

2008 Reader Submission
Pending Acceptance

Hi,

I know that this has already been submitted and is pending acceptance from the slush pile but here are some links to one of the newspapers that ran the story if you need further confirmation.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/category/story.cfm?c_id=13&objectid=10507021

Cheers,

Submitted on 05/11/2008

Submitted by: Anonymous
Reference: NZ Herald 28th April

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Candi said:
Definitely Keep: Other
More info for verification.


Bruce said:
Definitely Toss: Repeat
Thanks, we've already got plenty of information on this story.


Chip said:
Definitely Keep: For Darwin's Eyes
This is the complete wrap-up for this story and has plenty of new information. I will vote to send it on to Darwin and hope that this is the last we heard about the Kiwi jumper. Thanks for the submission


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