NY Boy Dies Using Homemade Parachute

[Roon]

NEW YORK -- A friend says a 9-year-old New York City boy might have been imitating a video game character when he apparently made a plastic parachute and jumped to his death from his apartment building's roof.

Police say Domori Miles likely cobbled a plastic bag and rope together before flying off the 13-story Brooklyn building Tuesday. The items were found on the ground near his body.
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/19193494/detail.html

[Shell Beau]

1. Oh no! That is so tragic. Poor child.

:cry:

[HopeHoops]

2. I remember trying to make one of those climbing hooks Batman used.

I was in like 3rd grade and made it out of balsa wood and some very thin rope I was able to get my hands on. Curiously, it was strong enough to hook onto a tree limb - but how do you climb a thin rope? I don't remember how I got it unhooked (it might have broken - balsa is only so strong).

[KamaAina]

3. Is there an age limit on the Darwin Awards?

It would seem rather heartless to give one to a 9-year-old. :(

[driver8]

4. Oh, man -- that is awful.

I feel so bad for family.

[guitar man]

5. Damn

That's sad :(

I pulled that stunt with one I made out of bedsheets and packing twine off the roof of our two story farmhouse. Luckily I landed in a bush and was just scraped and bruised up a bit.

[SacredCow]

8. Visqueen and bailing twine for me...

I jumped out of the hay loft of my parents' barn. Improper calculations resulted in parachute rigging that was probably about 10 feet longer than the distance to the ground. I landed, sprained my ankle, and endured the derision of my engineer-father (who was later shocked to find me in a technical field).

I never said I didn't *make* mistakes... I just learn from them!

:hi:


But a sad story in the OP.... :(

[Lyric]

6. I don't know many kids who didn't try something like this.

Usually with umbrellas, a la Mary Poppins.

Granted, most kids try jumping off of the porch instead of the roof.

:(

[Archae]

7. When I was 5, I put on a "Superman" cape...

And jumped out of a tree.

Doesn't work too well... :-)

[Shell Beau]

9. My brother told my other brother he was superman

and pushed him out of a tree. Bad bad bad!!

[Broken_Hero]

11. ditto, except I jumped off

the porch....my superman powers, weren't in tune...that day.


:D

[GoddessOfGuinness]

10. We should all sit down with our children tonight...

to remind them that it's important to know the difference between what's real and what isn't.
This is so sad...