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Originally posted by kath@Dec 9 2004, 12:24 PM
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Nominee #4: [UPI, Toronto]: Police said a lawyer demonstrating the safety of windows in a downtown Toronto skyscraper crashed through a pane with his shoulder and plunged 24 floors to his death. A police spokesman said Garry Hoy, 39, fell into the courtyard of the Toronto Dominion Bank Tower early Friday evening as he was explaining the strength of the building's windows to visiting law students. Hoy previously has conducted demonstrations of window strength according to police reports. Peter Lawson, managing partner of the firm Holden Day Wilson, told the Toronto Sun newspaper that Hoy was "one of the best and brightest" members of the 200-man association.
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Reminds me of those webmasters back in the Nat-Net suite in New Orleans... remember those windows that leaned out over the view? Remember the idiots that were laying on the windows? I kept expecting one of them to fall through at any moment. *shudder*
The saddest part about this Darwin nominee is the quote about him being the "best and brightest" of the association - just how stupid does that make the rest of them?
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BTW, that story is so damn old. Maybe about five years old. Its kind of like an urban legend in Toronto. Kind of makes you wonder about the veracity of the others.