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Dropping Like Flies

chancegardener
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Re: Dropping Like Flies June 30, 2011 at 04:28 PM UTC #
Woman falls to her death from rooftop of the W Hotel

A woman fell to her death from an upper floor of a hotel across from the White House grounds late Wednesday night, authorities said.

Witnesses told a police officer that the woman had been drinking at the bar on the rooftop patio of the W hotel, and that she climbed over a fence on the patio.

D.C. fire department spokesman Pete Piringer said witnesses told authorities that the woman was then seen hanging by her hands from an overhang one story below the rooftop around 11 p.m.

The woman then dropped about 10 stories, Piringer said witnesses reported. She was declared dead at the scene, Piringer said.

Uniformed Secret Service officers and D.C. police were at the scene late last night, and all lanes of 15th St. NW were shut down from New York Avenue south to Pennsylvania Avenue.

The woman was not immediately identified.

The boutique hotel, at 515 15th St. NW, is across from the White House, and the rooftop bar there is a popular attraction.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post_now/post/woman-falls-to-her-death-from-rooftop-of-the-w-hotel/2011/06/29/AGDMibrH_blog.html?wpisrc=nl_cuzheads


chaz
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Re: Dropping Like Flies June 30, 2011 at 04:53 PM UTC #
I've been in that bar.  And believe me, I wanted to jump off the fucking roof too.
James Ford
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Re: Dropping Like Flies June 30, 2011 at 05:10 PM UTC #
Isn't it about time for azaghal1981 to start a songlist thread to mock her death?
sweetcell
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Re: Dropping Like Flies June 30, 2011 at 05:52 PM UTC #
James wrote:
Isn't it about time for azaghal1981 to start a songlist thread to mock her death?

obviously he's behind schedule since you've already thrown a wet blanket on the idea - usually he goes first. 

snap to it, azag!
Relaxer
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Re: Dropping Like Flies June 30, 2011 at 07:33 PM UTC #
It's Raining (Wo)Men!
walkonby
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Re: Dropping Like Flies June 30, 2011 at 08:58 PM UTC #

"Jump Around", a 1992 song by House of Pain
"Jump (for My Love)", a Pointer Sisters song (later covered by the group Girls Aloud)
"Jump" (Van Halen song)
"Jump" (Kris Kross song)
"Jump" (Simple Plan song)
"Jump" (Every Little Thing song)
"Jump" (Madonna song)
"Jump" (Flo Rida song)
"Jumpin'" (Kara song)
"Jump", a song by The Faders
"Jump", a song by Loverboy from their 1981 album Get Lucky
"Jump!", a 1992 song performed by The Movement
"Jump", a track by Kylie Minogue on her 1997 album Impossible Princess
"Jump", a song by N*E*R*D from the 2004 album Fly or Die
"Jumpin", a song by Liberty X
"Jumpin' Jumpin'", a song by Destiny's Child


there.  no more is needed.
Relaxer
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Re: Dropping Like Flies July 01, 2011 at 01:08 PM UTC #


Authorities say body found in public pool went undetected for days
By Katie Silver, CNN
June 30, 2011 8:42 p.m. EDT

The body of Marie Joseph, 36, was discovered by teenagers Tuesday evening
in the Vietnam Veterans Swimming Pool in Fall River, Massachusetts, according to Bristol
County district attorney's spokesman Gregg Miliote.

Joseph had gone to the pool on Sunday with a 9-year-old neighbor and his family. She
collided with the boy while the pair careened down a pool slide, Miliote said.
After the collision, the boy surfaced but the woman did not, he said.

It was not clear Thursday what happened after the collision or whether the boy and
his family sought Joseph's whereabouts when they left the pool.
Authorities continued to investigate the cause of death Thursday.

The pool – which is 12 feet deep at its deepest — was described as "cloudy" by a health
inspector who examined the pool Tuesday, according to the mayor of Fall River, William Flanagan.
A decomposing body can take a couple of days before it becomes buoyant, Miliote added.


http://www.cnn.com/2011/CRIME/06/30/massachusetts.pool.woman.body/index.html?hpt=hp_t2
beetsnotbeats
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Re: Dropping Like Flies July 04, 2011 at 12:50 AM UTC #
Mr. Weed Eater, George Ballas
slappy
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Re: Dropping Like Flies July 06, 2011 at 03:27 AM UTC #
Coolest … chick …. ever.

"Jim Morrison invited her backstage for a beer. Jimi Hendrix took her along when he shopped for a blue Corvette. She sang ?California Girls? with Brian Wilson at a hotel piano bar during an interview. When Springsteen played Cleveland, he dedicated ?Dancing in the Dark? to her."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/jane-scott-rock-critic-for-cleveland-plain-dealer-dies-at-92/2011/07/05/gHQAx7QbzH_story.html
kmdobrz
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Re: Dropping Like Flies July 07, 2011 at 01:51 PM UTC #
Baltimore Colts great TE and HOF-er John Mackey
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Re: Dropping Like Flies July 23, 2011 at 05:06 PM UTC #
i wonder how? 
kosmo
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Re: Dropping Like Flies July 23, 2011 at 05:18 PM UTC #
well seeing as Cobain, Hendrix, Joplin, Morrison also all died at 27, i doubt it was clean living..

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Re: Dropping Like Flies July 23, 2011 at 05:27 PM UTC #
you forgot brian jones.

actually, i just looked at a site for the 27 music club.  wow.  a lot of musicians die at 27.
Doctor Doom
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Re: Dropping Like Flies July 23, 2011 at 05:30 PM UTC #
I am guessing by 27 a lot of talented people have had their first flash of brilliance, and are facing high expectations and the long and difficult slog that comes afterwards.
Brian_Walalce
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Re: Dropping Like Flies July 23, 2011 at 08:36 PM UTC #

I'm more pissed than sad.  I wanted more Amy Winehouse records.  I wanted more Nirvana records.  I wanted to see Len Bias play in the NBA.  I guess drugs are cooler.

Brian
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Re: Dropping Like Flies July 23, 2011 at 08:43 PM UTC #
Brian_Wallace wrote:

I'm more pissed than sad.  I wanted more Amy Winehouse records.  I wanted more Nirvana records.  I wanted to see Len Bias play in the NBA.  I guess drugs are cooler.

Brian


i was actually thinking of you today and whatever happened to you.  do we need more famous dead people just to make you post?
Brian_Walalce
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Re: Dropping Like Flies July 24, 2011 at 12:19 AM UTC #
walkonby wrote:
Brian_Wallace wrote:

I'm more pissed than sad.  I wanted more Amy Winehouse records.  I wanted more Nirvana records.  I wanted to see Len Bias play in the NBA.  I guess drugs are cooler.

Brian


i was actually thinking of you today and whatever happened to you.  do we need more famous dead people just to make you post?


I could probably think of a couple.  Absence makes…

Brian
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Re: Dropping Like Flies July 25, 2011 at 01:51 AM UTC #
is it just me?  i don't understand.  everywhere i turn, there are stories about amy whinehouse.  everywhere.  all news sources, all places to write a op ed piece and is about her.  only her.  her.  amy's death has brought the very foundation of news to its brink.  nothing else matters.  bigger than princess di's death, bigger than jesus's death, bigger than even fucking tupac.

she was a drug addict that had one good album and looked like a trailer park whore who would suck a dick for her next hit.  she had one real song that people knew her for.  she was everything that is wrong with fame.  she was a billboard for "i am a total fuck up; don't be me."  that is what the world worships?  a fucking junkie?  that is what we need to make us feel better about ourselves?
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