In the Bleachers by Ben Zaehringer for May 29, 2015

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    hawgowar  over 9 years ago

    This was in Ripley’s Believe It Or Not and Snopes confirms it.

    “It isn’t often we have occasion to employ the term “accidental self-defenestration” in an article, but that phrase certainly applies to the case of Garry Hoy, a 38-year-old lawyer with the Toronto law firm of Holden Day Wilson, who on 9 July 1993 plunged to his death from the 24th floor of the Toronto-Dominion Bank Tower building at TD Centre in front of several horrified witnesses.

    For motivations that remain unclear to this day Hoy had apparently developed a fondness for showing off the tensile strength of office building windows (and/or demonstrating his fearless trust in that aspect of building design) by running and hurling himself at window panes in front of onlookers, who would watch a stunt that always ended with Hoy’s bouncing off of the window panes, leaving both glass and lawyer unharmed. On a fateful day in 1993, however, Hoy attempted his feat in front of a group of prospective legal apprentices with disastrous results: Apparently the first attempt came off as usual with Hoy harmlessly rebounding off the window, but when Hoy threw himself against the pane a second time, it popped out of its frame and sent Hoy fatally tumbling 24 stories to the courtyard below."

    http://www.snopes.com/horrors/freakish/window.asp

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    Egrayjames  over 9 years ago

    Southern boys famous last words, “Hey Y’all…Watch this!”

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    renewed1  over 9 years ago

    What could go wrong?

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    jtviper7  over 9 years ago

    I’m waiting for porky’s head to look in and say " That that that’s all folks ".

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    drdougsteward  over 9 years ago

    The “Hey, ya’ll, watch this” is frequently preceded by ’Here, hold my beer."

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