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Your best guess: How tall of a hotel and what floor (Original Post) the_liberal_grandpa Mar 2025 OP
5 seems to be a popular number SheltieLover Mar 2025 #1
Falling from any window would have the desired effect Ocelot II Mar 2025 #2
We just need him to fall off his lift shoes. pandr32 Mar 2025 #3
My money is on a polonium Quarter Pounder 🍔 PlanetBev Mar 2025 #4
I like that. the_liberal_grandpa Mar 2025 #6
The fiftieth floor would be great... pdxflyboy Mar 2025 #5
I think when Pootie visits the White House he will ask the 🍑💩🤡 to show him the view for the roof of the White House kimbutgar Mar 2025 #7

Ocelot II

(130,805 posts)
2. Falling from any window would have the desired effect
Mon Mar 3, 2025, 12:29 PM
Mar 2025

as long as it's a few stories above the ground floor. Many modern hotels don't have windows that open, though; so the selected hotel would have to be old enough to have windows that open, preferably without screens. Another question might be how messy the ultimate result is desired to be. A heavy object falls at the same rate as a lighter one (assuming no air resistance effect), but the longer the distance of the fall, the more the object accelerates. A falling person would reach terminal velocity at about 1,500 feet, which would definitely ensure a messy and unquestionably fatal outcome, but most hotels aren't that tall (assuming 14' per story). A tidier but still satisfactory result could probably be achieved at between 3 and 5 stories.

6. I like that.
Mon Mar 3, 2025, 12:43 PM
Mar 2025

They would have to find a window that he could squeeze through but he would grab the quarter pounder without hesitation.

kimbutgar

(27,340 posts)
7. I think when Pootie visits the White House he will ask the 🍑💩🤡 to show him the view for the roof of the White House
Mon Mar 3, 2025, 01:03 PM
Mar 2025

And down goes poopy pants!

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