Suicide outside my office

[Twinblade]

Just returned to the office after having someone commit suicide right outside my window.

Jumped off the roof of a car park around lunchtime. What a waste.

http://www.kentonline.co.uk/kol08/article/default.asp?article_id=41053

 

[Amleto]

 

[V4NT0M]

And so it begins

 

[GarethDW]

There's a quote in that article that doesn't seem right...

Mahesh Gurung said: “She fell slowly at first, then I heard this scream."

Does he mean she speeded up towards the end of her fall...?

Terrible waste, though. My sympathies go to her family.

 

[Monkey Puzzle]

Did he drop much loot?

 

[Monkey Puzzle]

There's a quote in that article that doesn't seem right...

Does he mean she speeded up towards the end of her fall...?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_acceleration

 

[V4NT0M]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_acceleration

Beaten

 

[Abraham]

There's a quote in that article that doesn't seem right...

Does he mean she speeded up towards the end of her fall...?

Terrible waste, though. My sympathies go to her family.

i'd take it as the perspective thing of it being in slow motion at the start and then he heard the scream and thud

 

[Dingleberry88]

Just returned to the office after having someone commit suicide right outside my window.

Jumped off the roof of a car park around lunchtime. What a waste. [/url]

Waste that you weren't there to see it?

 

[Akira]

I blame GTA4

 

[KNiVES]

BAN LEMMINGS.

 

[Abraham]

BAN LEMMINGS.

lmao, right on time that has made my work day

 

[davethe11]

rip

 

[gavindo]

i work round the corner from were it happened wasnt nice

 

[Freefaller]

I've seen a few people land and burst on the ground - it's not pleasant, especially if their ribs puncture through

Skydiving's not always fun and games.

Suicide is always so sad.

 

[p4radox]

I've seen a few people land and burst on the ground - it's not pleasant, especially if their ribs puncture through

Skydiving's not always fun and games.

Suicide is always so sad.

Failed parachutes or suicide?

Can't have been nice to see.

 

[Going to Cali]

It's such a selfish thing to do. Someone nearly killed my Sister by jumping off a building last year, I hope they're suffering now.

 

[strudey]

i'd take it as the perspective thing of it being in slow motion at the start and then he heard the scream and thud

Even after people have posted about gravitational acceleration? If you jump off a step, do you hit the ground at the same speed as if you jump off your roof?

 

[Voltar]

hope they're in a better place now. rip

 

[Aod]

Even after people have posted about gravitational acceleration? If you jump off a step, do you hit the ground at the same speed as if you jump off your roof?

no. a falling body (we are ignoring air-resistance!) will accellerate at 9.80665ms^-2, which means that your speed will increase by 9.80665 meters per second, every second you are falling.

there is then Terminal velocity, which is the speed where accelleration due to gravity and the air-resistance cancel each other out, and from then untill you hit the ground your speed is constant.