I initially thought it might be fatigue, but on second thought, I reckon what might have been happening is that his fingers were slipping off the edge a bit, every time he pulled himself up (as if the top edge was too broad for his fingers to hook completely over) - so hanging there was a stable situation as long as his strength would last, but pulling himself up automatically resulted in letting go.
If there had just been someone there to press his fingers down for a better grip, I reckon he’d have pulled himself back up without any problem.
He could have had a buddy, but he wastoo reckless for other rooftoppers.
Just saw this on a bbc news page:
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I don’t think it was a fatigue issue either. He only tried like 2-3 pullups. It was grip.
He was fucked from the get-go.
We need to do something about gravity! It’s a silent killer, People!
It’s not the pull of gravity, is it. Isn’t it the push of the warping space-time continuum?
The dude was pushed off that ledge!
Oh no, not again.
I blame the ancient Egyptians
So have we heard an ACTUAL confirmation that this guy died and that this happened?
I keep waiting for the “It was all a video hoax!” article. But that hasn’t happened. But neither have I really seen anything that truly confirmed it.
…do you want a death certificate? The story has been told on mainstream media outlets all over the world, the BBC was just cited in this very thread, a fellow rooftopper was just quoted talking about his death. He’s as dead as dead can be.
Are you sure it wasn’t “I wonder if it will be friends with me?"
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So you’re saying it was terminal, Velocity?
I can tell from the pixels.
Clearly official building management regulations were not followed here. There should have been a cart full of hay at the base of the building.
Or at least an open top dumpster with soft squishy bags of trash
Link?
He’s not only merely dead, he’s really most sincerely dead?
This is kind of like that “If a tree falls in a forest” philosophical question.
“If a man falls off a tall building and no one sees him hit the ground, is he dead?”
Ancient Chinese secret!
And the smallest possible number of javelins.
Gotta acknowledge the genius in this post.