Death by Misadventure - Sad on so many levels

chris_f · 02-22-2006, 10:55 AM

Death by Misadventure

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - A teenage guitarist got so carried away while bouncing up and down on his bed mimicking a rock star that he flew out of a third floor window to his death, a Singapore newspaper reported Wednesday.

The Straits Times said Li Xiao Meng, a 16-year-old from China who was studying at Singapore's Hua Business School, was a keen musician who liked to jump up and down while playing his guitar in his hostel room.

"But on November 17 he took things a bit too far," the newspaper said, reporting on a coroner's court findings.

Ruling death by misadventure, the court said evidence "points to the deceased unintentionally falling out of the window to his death when he was hyped up with exhilaration, jumping up and down on the bed placed against an open window while mimicking a rock guitarist.""

Normally the windows were locked, the newspaper said, but students sometimes forced them open so they could smoke, something prohibited by the hostel.

hard_rox · 02-22-2006, 11:15 AM

any particular reason you put a "cool" emoticon next to the thread title?

K-Court · 02-22-2006, 11:17 AM

Man, I wonder what he was thinking as he plummeted down? I would think it would be something along the lines of "f*ck, am I an idiot!" Sad story.

chris_f · 02-22-2006, 11:19 AM

yes, because the label "death by misadventure" is a cool way to go out!

BFG · 02-22-2006, 11:22 AM

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Man, I wonder what he was thinking as he plummeted down? I would think it would be something along the lines of "f*ck, am I an idiot!" Sad story.

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Probably "woah man this is some serious heavy duty stage diving"

or " Shit I supposed to flow Tellevision out of window"

ODBSGIRL · 02-22-2006, 11:49 AM

Darwinian theory at work.

Mahler · 02-22-2006, 12:02 PM

Are they sure it was not the person in the room below him who came up and helped him out the window?

Mahler

chris_f · 02-22-2006, 12:23 PM

In all seriousness, that is very sad. But since none of us know him, and he's just one person out of the 6 billion-plus people on this planet, it's still fun to take the piss out of him a little bit.

Deserve · 02-22-2006, 12:35 PM

I see that he got a little over zealous on the stage diving.

It happens.

Anubis · 02-22-2006, 06:43 PM

This gives a whole new literal meaning to 'Death Metal'