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Get a GUN, fool! Get a GUN!
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Date: Mon, 6 Apr 92 14:55 EDT
From: Steve Barr <BARRSTEV%UNCG.BITNET@mitvma.mit.edu>
Subject: Get a GUN, fool! Get a GUN!
To: subgenius@media-lab.media.mit.edu
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Winston-Salem Journal, Monday, April 6, 1992
_Man Survives 2 Attempts At Suicide in Same Day_
[] 30-year-old makes two 4-story leaps from the same window
The Associated Press
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KENMORE, N.Y.
A man who leapt from a fourth-story window and survived by landing on
a car, rode an elevator back up and repeated his suicide attempt --
jumping from the same window and landing on the same car.
The man, 30, survived both 40-foot leaps and was in fair condition
yesterday at a hospital in Buffalo, police said.
"That's a total of eight floors and, other than a broken wrist and a
broken ankle, he's in as good shape as you or I," police Capt. Emil
Palombo said.
In his first attempt Saturday morning, the man "had to take a running
leap because those windows don't open," Palombo said.
He dove through a double-pane window, landing on the car, buckling
the roof and doors, and smashing its rear windows, Palombo said.
Although dazed and bleeding from facial cuts, the man got up and
walked to the building's elevator, a witness told police.
"He was cut up -- there was a trail of blood going into the hall, up
the elevator and into the room," Palombo said.
Police Lt. Ronald Sardina arrived at the six-story building in time
to see the man make his second jump onto the crumpled car.
"I saw a sneaker, some blood and a lot of glass," said Sardina, who
spotted the car. "I looked up, and he appeared at the broken window
and just kept coming."
Palombo said police believe that the man suffered his most serious
injuries in the second fall, when the car no longer absorbed the impact
and "kind of flattened out like a Dumpster."
The man lived in the building last year, moved out, then moved back
in last week, neighbors said.
Police found nothing in the apartment to indicate that the man was
suicidal.
Palombo said that people who attempt suicide often try again "but not
in the time span of two-three minutes."
"God bless him, he's alive," Palombo said. "Whatever help he needs,
he's going to get it."
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