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Topic: The IDS plunge
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Laggard
Punk Posts: 1087
Registered: Apr 2000
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posted 02-27-2001 03:26 PM
   
Yet another person just ended it all by plunging through the crystal court.
Damn.IP: Logged |
Guy
Punk Posts: 520
Registered: Jul 2000
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posted 02-27-2001 03:30 PM
when? i work downtown blocks from crystal court - is there residue?IP: Logged |
Laggard
Punk Posts: 1087
Registered: Apr 2000
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posted 02-27-2001 03:59 PM
It happened around 2:30. When I was over there they were kicking people out of the crystal court. It looked like they had plastic up around him.IP: Logged |
Teddie
Lil Punk Posts: 3
Registered: Feb 2001
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posted 02-27-2001 04:03 PM
I was there like a minute before it happened, he was lying there with no head and his insides were up on his chest. He fell into one of those wooden benches by the water fountain and shattered it. Really disturbing......IP: Logged |
Guy
Punk Posts: 520
Registered: Jul 2000
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posted 02-27-2001 04:04 PM
That's scary shit - tons of people must have seen that. I think I'd be sickIP: Logged |
nicattack
Punk Posts: 517
Registered: Dec 2000
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posted 02-27-2001 04:05 PM
OH MY GOD is that scary... I'm really glad i didn't have to see that...IP: Logged |
Reno
Punk Posts: 1460
Registered: Jun 2000
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posted 02-27-2001 04:07 PM
I hear it was a window washer. Maybe this was just an accident. I'm sure OSHA will be looking into that. Then again, if I was a window washer for a living....  IP: Logged |
dadaduck
Punk Posts: 886
Registered: Jun 2000
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posted 02-27-2001 04:19 PM
What I always wonder is what's going through the minds of the people who work in the IDS Tower when all of a sudden, they're sitting at their desk, they look up, and some guy falls right past their window. Do they call 911? Do they just sit there in shock? Do they get up and run over to the window to look at the big mess that he made all over the pavement? Or do they just say to themselves "I must be imagining things! I could have sworn I just saw somebody falling past my window!" IP: Logged |
Guy
Punk Posts: 520
Registered: Jul 2000
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posted 02-27-2001 04:22 PM
That's what I mean. I like architecture and when I walk to and from work or to lunch downtown, I'm always looking up at the top of the buildings to check out the styles, etc. Not even taking the messy landing into account, just to see a body fall from the top of one of those buildings would make me lose it. It's like seeing a plane or car crash - that icky feeling of knowing someone is biting it.IP: Logged |
Laggard
Punk Posts: 1087
Registered: Apr 2000
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posted 02-27-2001 04:53 PM
KSTP is reporting that it was a suicide. The guy walked into an office, broke the window and went out.IP: Logged |
guernica
Punk Posts: 509
Registered: Apr 2000
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posted 02-27-2001 04:54 PM
i was walking out of the i.d.s. about a year ago, and was dive bombed by a suicidal pidgeon that had flown into the glass. it hurt like hell. i often wonder what would have happened to me if that was a person, other than i'd be a dead pancake...IP: Logged |
Vrooman
Punk Posts: 588
Registered: Nov 2000
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posted 02-27-2001 04:54 PM
quote:
Originally posted by Reno:
I hear it was a window washer. Maybe this was just an accident. I'm sure OSHA will be looking into that. Then again, if I was a window washer for a living....
Unfortunately, I unwittingly walked into the Crystal Court *before* they closed it off. I have no stomach for that. I feel numb and queasy. I really hope it wasn't an accident (there's a window broken on the top floor, so it seems unlikely). Either way it is a sad deal.
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Garage Woman
Punk Posts: 666
Registered: May 2000
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posted 02-27-2001 05:19 PM
Years ago my sister worked in the Government Center and heard a huge thud that was a person who jumped from, I think, the 17th floor. They were splattered all over the fountain.I used to work on the 31st Floor of the IDS Tower and once we had a cracked window. As they fixed it we had to be very far from it because as they removed the glass you could easily be sucked out the window from the pressure. It was freaky. IP: Logged |
Reno
Punk Posts: 1460
Registered: Jun 2000
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posted 02-27-2001 08:45 PM
I've been e-mailed a pic of someone who jumped out a 50th-something window in NYC. It's incredibly harsh, but I have to admit I was curious about...you know, what happens. After discussing it with RC I've decided not to even link the image (with many warnings) to this page. If any of you sick bastards really want to see it, e-mail me at the address on my profile and I'll forward you the image.IP: Logged |
vishnu666
Punk Posts: 504
Registered: Sep 2000
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posted 02-27-2001 09:22 PM
I got only one question:
Did everybody in the Crystal Court get a free box of steaks?IP: Logged |
Tobylifehater
Punk Posts: 2103
Registered: Aug 2000
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posted 02-28-2001 01:01 AM
There are two really degenerate sites where you can check out morbid, disgusting stuff (I was overcome by curiousity and then couldn't shake the images for a few days- it's pretty rude.) "sickanddisgusting(dot-com)" is the lighter weight of the two, and "Rotten(dot-com)" is the heavy hitter. I got the sick and disgusting one when I was bored one day, and I was just typing in phrases into the web adress thingy. Rottendotcom came from transworld surf. There's always a couple quality sites there.IP: Logged |
dadaduck
Punk Posts: 886
Registered: Jun 2000
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posted 02-28-2001 09:24 AM
quote:
Originally posted by Garage Woman:
Years ago my sister worked in the Government Center and heard a huge thud that was a person who jumped from, I think, the 17th floor.
That place is freaky! I get queasy every time I go in there. You'd almost think that that place had been designed so as to facilitate people who wanted to commit suicide. At least they finally built a wall along the walkways, so as to cut down on the number of people plummeting to their deaths. With all the people on the street, its sort of amazing that no one's gotten hit by any of the people that have jumped. IP: Logged |
sonicfreak
Punk Posts: 2594
Registered: Apr 2000
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posted 02-28-2001 09:35 AM
The man who jumped to his death from the 51st floor of the IDS tower in Minneapolis was identified today as Donnell Walker, 30,
of Minneapolis.
In releasing the identity, the Hennepin County medical examiner's office said Walker died Tuesday afternoon after an apparent
suicide and that an autopsy was scheduled for today.
Walker entered an office on the 51st floor of the downtown building, knocked out a window and jumped. He fell through a
plexiglass ceiling over the Crystal Court and landed near a fountain outside Au Bon Pain restaurant about 2:30 p.m. A woman
suffered minor injuries from shards of glass or plexiglass.
Police cleared people from the Crystal Court and closed off access to the area. Pieces of glass were hanging from the ceiling, and
police feared they might fall
The building's businesses were scheduled to reopen today.
In 1996, a 32-year-old man who apparently was despondent over financial troubles used a 10-pound barbell to smash
quarter-inch-thick glass and then jumped to his death from the 30th floor of the building. Employees had tried for 10 minutes to
talk him out of jumping, which gave police time to clear the courtyard.IP: Logged |
mud
Punk Posts: 148
Registered: May 2000
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posted 02-28-2001 02:57 PM
My roommate was one of the gawkers on the skyway level of the Crystal Court right after the guy landed. He got a good look at the carnage - and right before he left this goth girl standing next to him just said, "cool..."IP: Logged |
Guy
Punk Posts: 520
Registered: Jul 2000
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posted 02-28-2001 03:28 PM
My wife has a co-worker whose boyfriend worked with the guy - I guess he just had a kid IP: Logged |
crashpalace
Punk Posts: 140
Registered: Nov 2000
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posted 02-28-2001 04:20 PM
Originally posted by Reno:
I hear it was a window washer. Maybe this was just an accident. I'm sure OSHA will be looking into that. Then again, if I was a window washer for a living....what about the people who have to clean it up? now that's a job.
man, i wonder if there were signs..or if someone tried to stop him, or what the fuck he was thinking. this is what's going through my mind. did he stand there and think about it or did he just break the glass and jump? i mean, it's obvious that he thought of it. but i'm talking about right before he jumped. did he think of his new baby? did he think that he might possibly hit another human being when he landed? i guess you can't really care about other people's lives when you don't care about your own..
these are the things that make me have that sick, empty feeling. more than the guts and blood.. IP: Logged |
Mitchell
Punk Posts: 356
Registered: Mar 2000
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posted 02-28-2001 08:20 PM
quote:
Originally posted by vishnu666:
I got only one question:
Did everybody in the Crystal Court get a free box of steaks?
That took balls. Also, it was funny. IP: Logged |
RC
Punk Posts: 859
Registered: Jan 2001
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posted 02-28-2001 08:30 PM
Ditto! UR the TCPrince of darkness.IP: Logged |
Reno
Punk Posts: 1460
Registered: Jun 2000
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posted 03-01-2001 02:21 AM
I can't believe that none of you has taken me up on my offer for a pic of someone who's fallen 50 floors. Aren't you at all curious? Think "empty toothpaste tube" and you get the idea.IP: Logged |
Beving
Punk Posts: 1926
Registered: May 2000
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posted 03-01-2001 10:38 AM
I have a picture of a guy who fell down a grain elevator or something. "They" put his nose back on his face for the photo.IP: Logged |
The Sponge
Punk Posts: 232
Registered: Jun 2000
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posted 03-01-2001 11:54 AM
Reno- I'm quite sure I've seen worse on Rotten.com. Thanx for the offer though...You sick bastard! IP: Logged |
dadaduck
Punk Posts: 886
Registered: Jun 2000
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posted 03-01-2001 12:41 PM
quote:
Originally posted by Reno:
I can't believe that none of you has taken me up on my offer for a pic of someone who's fallen 50 floors.
Yes, but do you have an audio file of the sound that he made when he hit the pavement? IP: Logged |
Reno
Punk Posts: 1460
Registered: Jun 2000
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posted 03-01-2001 01:07 PM
Wow, now I'm gonna be wondering about that. I'm thinking maybe it's something like the slapping sound you make when you bellyflop in a pool.  IP: Logged |
Jzzz
Punk Posts: 1784
Registered: Apr 2000
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posted 03-01-2001 11:46 PM
In the Crystal Court
I imagine the sound of the
little squares of broken glass
as it gently falls to the floor.IP: Logged |
Jzzz
Punk Posts: 1784
Registered: Apr 2000
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posted 03-01-2001 11:53 PM
[QUOTE]Originally posted by Jzzz:[B]Oh Wait those things are Plexi.
Ouch! IP: Logged |
crashpalace
Punk Posts: 140
Registered: Nov 2000
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posted 03-02-2001 10:06 AM
reno, cool face! how appropriate!by the way, i think people did get free steaks. they just grabbed a chunk as they left the ids.. aw man, i'm not even gonna wait for someone to respond. that's really sick!
[This message has been edited by crashpalace (edited 03-02-2001).] IP: Logged |
rabdws
Punk Posts: 171
Registered: Nov 2000
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posted 03-02-2001 12:17 PM
I don't think it was steak. More like minced meat or perhaps a stew. With some fava beans and a nice chianti...[This message has been edited by rabdws (edited 03-02-2001).] IP: Logged |
Garage Woman
Punk Posts: 666
Registered: May 2000
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posted 03-02-2001 01:37 PM
quote:
Originally posted by rabdws:
I don't think it was steak. More like minced meat or perhaps a stew. With some fava beans and a nice chianti...[This message has been edited by rabdws (edited 03-02-2001).]
Thp thp thp smack smack
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Marcia
Lil Punk Posts: 27
Registered: Dec 2000
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posted 03-05-2001 05:38 PM
quote:
Originally posted by Reno:
I can't believe that none of you has taken me up on my offer for a pic of someone who's fallen 50 floors. Aren't you at all curious? Think "empty toothpaste tube" and you get the idea.
A tempting offer, but it just wouldn't mean as much as seeing the remains of our own IDS suicide victim. I like to maintain that, uh...local flavor. IP: Logged |
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