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Man Dies After 20-Foot Fall at Chicago NFL Stadium
- Posted on November 29, 2010 at 1:43am by
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CHICAGO (AP) — Authorities say a man has died after falling at least 20 feet from a ledge at Soldier Stadium while attending a Chicago Bears game.
Chicago police say the man fell around 4:55 p.m. Sunday during the NFL matchup between the Bears and the Philadelphia Eagles. He was pronounced dead at a local hospital.
Chicago Fire Chief Joe Roccasalva says the man landed on a small rooftop on the outside of the stadium. Witnesses told authorities the man ran to a ledge and jumped. Roccasalva says the man was in his 20s, but his name hasn’t been released.
It’s the second death in a week at a major sporting arena. On Nov. 21, a 2-year-old boy fell from a luxury box at the Staples Center during a Los Angeles Lakers game.
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wash1776
Posted on November 30, 2010 at 1:59pmGOD BLESS his family, friends and loved ones.
Report Post »dontbotherme
Posted on November 29, 2010 at 8:57pmSome of you are embarrassingly callous. God bless this man’s family. It sounds like a suicide. This leaves an open wound that will never heal to those left behind.
Report Post »OK3Wire
Posted on November 29, 2010 at 5:23pmDidn’t catch the game. What was the score at 4:55? That might be a clue …
Report Post »Lutheran
Posted on November 29, 2010 at 4:55pmSad story
Report Post »Lord help this family in their time of grief
Bronco II
Posted on November 29, 2010 at 7:57amSad but people live and die everyday will the whole stadium of people need counciling.My prayers with the family but please he is a rest now so lets move on.
Report Post »MommaGrizzly
Posted on November 29, 2010 at 7:41amMy cynical husband would call it Natural Selection but it still breaks my heart. What was he thinking???
Report Post »@leftfighter
Posted on November 29, 2010 at 8:31amColor me cynical then. One doesn’t jump from a great height and expect to live. This really is a matter of the survival of the fittest.
Report Post »heavyduty
Posted on November 29, 2010 at 6:13amI guess he didn’t like his seat. Wanted to go back in and try for another.
Report Post »LSX
Posted on November 29, 2010 at 6:04amI can hear the low-life lawyers rattling their “protectionism” swords.
Report Post »RobertCA
Posted on November 29, 2010 at 2:44amYeah what’s going on with people falling down during the games these days .
Report Post »Please be more careful .
kourage
Posted on November 29, 2010 at 2:35amMust be a global epidemic…just like the trick football play in TX. Let’s see, we’ve had the Lakers kid, the college football kid, and this guy, and I’m probably forgetting another two
Report Post »troyvar
Posted on November 29, 2010 at 5:58amI‘m thinking it’s an imbalance in the force.
Report Post »hackerinco
Posted on November 29, 2010 at 8:24amI‘m sure it was George Bush’s fault. Or maybe a die hard (pun intended) Eagles fan.
Report Post »Goohuman
Posted on November 29, 2010 at 2:14amStatistics catches up. We have deaths at Football games too, just not from stampeding, crazed fans.
Report Post »Huckabee Gingrich 12
Posted on November 29, 2010 at 2:21amIs your moniker meant to convey your belief in abiogenesis, and the gradual “evolution” of goo into humans, or am I reading too much into it?
Report Post »MrButcher
Posted on November 29, 2010 at 2:42amabiogenesis holds more drinkable water (john 4:13-14) than your implied creationism.
maybe i am reading too much into it as well.
but, hey, you brought it up and I love to slug it out.
republitarian
Posted on November 29, 2010 at 3:29amAnd that is the problem. Why must you proselytize?
In general, you make good points, but no one will listen because they are too busy defending their beliefs from attack. Oh I know, “They have no right feel persecuted!” Fine. The point is that they do, and that is why your posts get under their skin. No one cares that you are an Athiest, but you wish to bring your message to the masses. That is to proselytize.
I am a man of little faith, but I like Christians in whatever form they come. Why must you be mean to them at every opportunity? If it comes up, as it did with the billboard, then fine. Have at it. But otherwise, I think you are hurting your case on any subject.
Report Post »Goohuman
Posted on November 29, 2010 at 5:29amHuckabee Gingrich 12: That is a new one on me.
Try putting a “d” in the middle somewhere and that is what I was thinking, but my name is also a variant of another name that made even less sense. Awe heck, just put the “d” in it.
Report Post »JRJSRJ
Posted on November 29, 2010 at 7:56amThats pretty funny about your name! One guy thinking its has something to do with origins, another defending the atheistic viewpoint of the genesis of life and all you meant was Good human! Thats hysterical!
@Butcher your zealot. If Hitchens, Dawkins, Dennett and heads much more swollen than yours get punked in the arena of ideas what makes you think you are gonna bring anything new to the discussion they havent already brought? Atheism is a belief system. It requires belief. You cant prove your beliefs. Before you waste your time and energy attacking a persons beliefs you really need to read, “The Devil’s Delusion”. David Berlinski. Secular Jew. Not a believer of any sort. Just sick of arrogant atheistic types like Dawkins, Hitchens, Dennett and yourself. Before you continue to make an ass out of yourself read this book.
“A secular Jew, Berlinski nonetheless delivers a biting defense of religious thought. An acclaimed author who has spent his career writing about mathematics and the sciences, he turns the scientific community’s cherished skepticism back on itself, daring to ask and answer some rather embarrassing questions:
* Has anyone provided a proof of God’s inexistence? Not even close.
* Has quantum cosmology explained the emergence of the universe or why it is here? Not even close.
* Have the sciences explained why our universe seems to be fine-tuned to allow for the existence of life? Not even close.
* Are physicists and biologists willing to believe in anything so long as it is not religious thought? Close enough.
* Has rationalism in moral thought provided us with an understanding of what is good, what is right, and what is moral? Not close enough.
* Has secularism in the terrible twentieth century been a force for good? Not even close to being close.
* Is there a narrow and oppressive orthodoxy of thought and opinion within the sciences? Close enough.
* Does anything in the sciences or in their philosophy justify the claim that religious belief is irrational? Not even ballpark.
* Is scientific atheism a frivolous exercise in intellectual contempt? Dead on.
Berlinski does not dismiss the achievements of western science. The great physical theories, he observes, are among the treasures of the human race. But they do nothing to answer the questions that religion asks, and they fail to offer a coherent description of the cosmos or the methods by which it might be investigated.”
Report Post »http://www.devilsdelusion.com/
Huckabee Gingrich 12
Posted on November 29, 2010 at 11:13pm@GOO
Fair enough, I was just wondering. Your moniker reminded me of something I heard somewhere from a Creationist mocking evolution: “From goo, to the zoo, to you”.
@BUTCHER
Curses! I’ve lost by Knockout! Abiogenesis, i.e., life from non-life, is such very sound science. In fact, as I‘m sure you’re well aware of, some very INTELLIGENT men have recently spent $40 million on the DESIGN and CREATION of synthetic cells. Yes, they have successfully demonstrated that existing intelligence can produce organisms from non-living matter. Now if they could just figure out how to produce that pesky matter stuff from nothing. Maybe after another $40 million…
@JR
Report Post »Thanks for that link. I’d never heard of this guy, but I’m interested in reading his book.
Republic Under God
Posted on November 30, 2010 at 1:39pm@ Huck/Ging 12 From the article:
We transformed existing life into new life. We also did not design and build a new chromosome from nothing. Rather, using only digitized information, we synthesized a modified version of the naturally occurring Mycoplasma mycoides genome. The result is not an “artificial” life form. It is a very real, self-replicating cell that most microbiologists would be unable to readily distinguish from the naturally occurring counterpart without the aid of DNA sequencing.
I think your use of the word “CREATION” misrepresents the experiment and it’s results. I’d liken it more to a copy/paste deal.
@JRJSRJ
If I am not mistaken, Berlinski was a contributor in the documentary that Ben Stein hosted, Expelled: Intelligence Not Allowed. It was an interesting look at the politics of science.
Report Post »salvawhoray
Posted on November 29, 2010 at 2:00amshould have tucked and rolled.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on November 29, 2010 at 1:50amAt least it wasn’t a kid that fell this time … .“jumped”? Wow.
Report Post »snowleopard3200 {mix art}
Posted on November 29, 2010 at 2:01amHell of a way to go; peace be with his surviving family and friends.
Report Post »staythecourse
Posted on November 29, 2010 at 3:34amA man runs and jumps to his death…. not being chased or threatened or anything….and this in Chicago? Something amiss.
Report Post »2
Posted on November 29, 2010 at 8:16amIf it‘s on film let’s see it.
Report Post »They say only cowards jump.
Like think your nutz or have balls of steel.