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>The man survived the fall from Amazon’s 12-story Apollo building at about 8:45 a.m. local time Monday and was taken to a Seattle hospital, police said. Aside:
by SuperPaintMan 10y ago
>The man survived the fall from Amazon’s 12-story Apollo building at about 8:45 a.m. local time Monday and was taken to a Seattle hospital, police said.
Aside: That is a testament to the resilience of a body. The physics behind that fall would be astounding to analyze! I come from a long line of suicidal people we're not jumpers, but swingers.
- daviross 10y ago12 story building, but he jumped from the 4th floor and hit a balcony midway down. Still resilient, but not the full impact imagined.
- tedmiston 10y agoIt looks like those details were omitted from the Bloomberg article.
- umeshunni 10y agoYes, the Seattle PI article said that he fell 20 feet (2 stories) into a balcony after jumping from the 12 story building.
- nir 10y agoFollowing this, he was assigned to Amazon's employee suicide improvement plan.
- throwawaymaroon 10y agothat's too dark for the polite society here. we're civilized; suicide is too serious for levity.
- sctb 10y agoThis kind of comment might not look so out-of-place elsewhere on the internet, but on Hacker News we try to behave like decent human beings. > Be civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say in a face-to-face conversation. Avoid gratuitous negativity. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- notyourwork 10y agoThe building is 12 stories, he didn't jump from the top though. There is a outdoor patio on the 4th story.
- rbcgerard 10y agoTry 47 stories... http://mobile.nytimes.com/2007/12/08/nyregion/08collapse.html http://mobile.nytimes.com/2007/12/08/nyregion/08collapse.htm...
- RexetBlell 10y agohttp://nypost.com/2014/01/05/window-washer-survived-47-story-plunge-now-walks-for-charity/ http://nypost.com/2014/01/05/window-washer-survived-47-story...
- tmescic 10y agoTry an airplane: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vesna_Vulovi%C4%87 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vesna_Vulovi%C4%87
- infinitone 10y agoI've survived a 4 story building fall when i was 3. Came out with no scratches or broken bones.
- sah2ed 10y agoYou actually knew that you survived the fall at age 3 or someone much older told you the story of how you survived a 4-storey fall when you were much older?