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Smoking and Abiding Kills!!!!

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Translated from Spanish: Titled: Death at Alvear Hotel: Smoked at the window and fell She was a US tourist guest on the 7th floor. Body: A female American tourist died yesterday after loosing balance and falling down from the 7th floor of the Alvear Palace Hotel as informed by local police. The woman, 31 years old had apparently gone out to smoke outside of her room, onto the window sill, slipped and fell down to the ground. Her death was instantaneous. Jamie Whelan, from New-York, was a guest who arrived yesterday at the tradicional hotel of Alvear 1891, between Callao avenue and Ayacucho street, together with a friend. According to local police sources, Whelan and her friend were in a non-smoking room, which is the reason why at about 8:20, Whelan decided to climb out of the room onto the window sill in order to smoke a cigarette completely outside of her room, so she would not breach the non smoking policy of the hotel. But the Buenos Aires recent humid days combined with the rains that had profusely fallen where not the best allies, and acted to seal Jamie Whelan's faith. Fatality: When her friend came back to the room with the lighter that Whelan's had asked her to bring, she just made it in time to hear the noise caused by the fall. Death was instantaneous as confirmed from a police spokesperson from 17ath precinct. The police investigation ruled out any other possibility, and declared the death an accident due to fatality associated with the imprudence of the woman to attempt to smoke on the tiny window sill on a wet day. Whelan and her friends where going to leave Buenos Aires on Sunday.

Submitted on 10/13/2007

Submitted by: Anonymous
Reference: La Nacion (Buenos-Aires AR) 13-Oct-07

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Bruce said:
Definitely Keep: Darwin Award
Ok, simple question: Why didn't they ask for a smoking room? It seems like it would have been a much easier way to deal with a habit that'll end up killing you eventually anyway.


James said:
Definitely Keep: Darwin Award
I suppose she really (wait for it...) went out on a ledge to have a smoke! (OK, sorry about the bad joke!)...Anyway, even standing outside on the ground floor under an awning would have been an option (hell, outside is outside, be it out a window or out the door, don't you think?), but I'll wager she was too lazy to wait for the elevator. Anyway, this is worthy of an award because of the great effort she went through to climb out onto the window sill and because this was completely avoidable!


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