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Coincidentally, a couple of fellow chess teachers and myself were joking today about the Darwin Awards and the infamous Toronto 'winner' in 1993, Garry Hoy.
The lawyer, heck yeah. But I don't know about the person on the escalator. Unlucky, yes, but hardly the result of the sort of obstinate and deliberate stupidity involved in throwing yourself against a window that's dozens of floors off the ground. A life line would have been prudent.
Let's see now. 24 stories up. Say 3m/floor.
That makes 3m/floor x 24 floors = 72 m above the ground.
Now, the acceleration of gravity, g = 9.8 m/s2.
To make a long story short, the velocity at impact, v, would be
v = (2gd) 1/2
v = ((2) x ( 9.8 m/s2) x (72 m)) 1/2
so v at impact would be ~ 37.6 m/s or a little over 135 km/hr.
The window frame and clothing may have had an effect as well. But a deadly fall in any case.
Dogs will bark, but the caravan of chess moves on.
Coincidentally, a couple of fellow chess teachers and myself were joking today about the Darwin Awards and the infamous Toronto 'winner' in 1993, Garry Hoy.
Coincidentally, a couple of fellow chess teachers and myself were joking today about the Darwin Awards and the infamous Toronto 'winner' in 1993, Garry Hoy.
The point of the Darwin awards is that the recipient has to be doing something stupid that a rational human being would realize is tempting fate. Is riding an escalator in some way tempting fate? I wouldn't think so. With respect to the lawyer, I wonder if he had done the same trick on the same window a number of times.
When I worked for an automation software company, we used to sell some very expensive toughbook laptops from Panasonic. The reps would do demonstrations where they would drop the computers from a height of several feet and occasionally repeatedly in the same demonstration. At one point our company was the biggest seller of these laptops in Canada because we had hit on the idea of offering them with the various automation software packages pre-installed. In short we had a good relationship with Panasonic and the rep who we dealt with. We had a demonstration in Sarnia where the rep was not able to attend and asked me to give the demonstration. When a customer asked me to demonstrate the computer's ability to survive a drop, I dropped the computer as I had seen the Panasonic rep do dozens of times without worrying until I heard the sickening sound that an ordinary laptop would make when you drop it from three or four feet onto concrete. The eight or ten thousand dollar laptop was now a paperweight with a shattered LCD screen. Unfortunately there was a bit of information that I did not have and it was that the computers could withstand only a certain number of drops and the demo unit was well beyond its expiration date. Oops.
I wonder if the lawyer's window also had a fatigue factor that people needed to be aware of.
Personally, I wouldn't be caught dead in a scarf. Scarves and their like have killed many a soul. The most famous scarf death was likely Isadora Duncan. Her fondness for long, flowing silk scarves certainly proved fatal.
Re: "I've got an idea. Here, hold my beer."
My eldest son, Yael, is going to be none too pleased to learn that his beloved alma mater, MIT, is now an acronym for "male idiot theory". So says the 'British Medical Journal' in their study of Darwin Awards winners (:
Re: "I've got an idea. Here, hold my beer."
Great article. I particularly love "the terrorist who posted a letter bomb with insufficient postage stamps and who, on its return, unthinkingly opened his own letter."
Re: "I've got an idea. Here, hold my beer."
I'd love to see a little poetic justice and see Brandon Smith and his lawyer, Bill Johnson, enter the Darwin Awards sweepstakes by getting themselves killed while driving drunk in Kentucky (:
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