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Re: Tipsy Teen Tumbles, Trapped 2 X 24h 'tween Towers He's already admitted to underage drinking, who knows what else they can get him with. There are some pretty strange laws over there. |
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Re: Tipsy Teen Tumbles, Trapped 2 X 24h 'tween Towers Quote:
... um, over here they can do very good rescues, ya? |
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Re: Tipsy Teen Tumbles, Trapped 2 X 24h 'tween Towers People are going to get into trouble over that ![]() |
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Re: Tipsy Teen Tumbles, Trapped 2 X 24h 'tween Towers Quote:
![]() This wouldn't have happened here, our building codes don't allow 2 buildings to be constructed so close together. Minimun distance between the wall and boundry gets larger the higher the building is. From memory it is a 3 foot minimum, making distance between 2 buildings at least 6 feet. |
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Re: Tipsy Teen Tumbles, Trapped 2 X 24h 'tween Towers At least he had decent friends who didn't wait until after the weekend to try to find him, or pretend they had no clue he was missing. |
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Re: Tipsy Teen Tumbles, Trapped 2 X 24h 'tween Towers I'm sure this kid won't get charged with a thing and since he has a fractured skull he probably won't finish his semester making any disciplinary actions from the school pretty moot. I had a friend who went on a NYC art school's summer exchange program in Paris and drunkenly fell off a balcony. She broke her back and spent the rest of the summer in a body cast in Paris. I'm pretty sure she got kicked out of school for that one, but then again she also was 17 and scaling an exterior balcony... |
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Re: Tipsy Teen Tumbles, Trapped 2 X 24h 'tween Towers And drinking on rooftops is pretty much an integral part of every NYC college student's experience. So is trespassing. ![]() |
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Re: Tipsy Teen Tumbles, Trapped 2 X 24h 'tween Towers Quote:
Actually, having given more consideration to the relative liabilities involved, I imagine the rooftop restraining wall would have to be fairly low to permit someone to fall over the edge if they "slipped". A few years ago, to comply with changes in the building codes, many NYC buildings were adding 2-ft to 3-ft to the height of roof walls to make them safer. Maybe that hadn't been done yet to the buildings involved in this accident. However, this student probably wasn't supposed to be up there on the roof in the first place and certainly not so intoxicated that he presented a hazard to himself, anyway. So if he was gonna sue (for a hazardous condition-low wall), he'd have to take some responsibility for his own peril. Sounds like a wash so long as the building wall was raised. Its a relatively easy matter to fix the building roof wall. As for fixing the guy's drinking-falling-almost-dying problem, thats a little tougher. |