I learned that from Tony Hillerman’s Navajo Tribal Police mysteries.
I loved those books.
Me too, except the last one, published after his death, was clearly cobbled together by some hack from some notes or an outline and larded with incompetent attempts to capture Hillerman’s characters and story telling skills. So very glad I took it out of the library rather than buying it.
Which one was published after his death? I wasn’t aware that had happened.
Sadly, I think you are correct.
Several years ago, hubs and my BFF and her hubs went to the skywalk. I was not able to do the walk (cause I’m a weenie who was NOT going to walk out on a glass floor and look millions of years down) so I stayed in the visitor center and strolled around the parking lot smoking.
According to those who were able to do the walk, the heavy glass walls were over 5 feet tall and there were no rails to stand on. A determined person would be able to make it over the wall if nobody interfered, but there were several employees stationed around the area in case someone like me was stoopid enough to go out there and panicked. I’m sure they would have interfered unless the guy was fast and agile like a feral cat, but even so, someone would have seen what had happened.
My observations from strolling the parking lot is that the rails there could have been easily defeated by someone the deceased age and there looked to be access behind the building where someone could get under the walk…probably for maintenance.
Suicide by Canyon is also a thing and that appears to be the unofficial verdict according to everything I’ve been hearing locally.
Unless the crime happens because of the theoretical loophole called the “Zone of Death” in Yellowstone.
I sincerely hope you meant “to stand behind. Standing on an ostensible “safety rail” strikes me a a bit hazardous.
Do you think they would have been able to tell if he landed on his feet?
This guy, sneaking into the hospital room of the father of someone he disagreed with - and taking a selfie
Some people are just shit. Really classy response by the daughter, though.
I forget the title, but just look for the last volume in the series. Don’t bother reading it, though.
If that was my dad’s room he crept into that fellow would certainly be needing a hospital bed of his own shortly.
I think we’re burying the lede here:
THE MAN’S NAME IS BUBBA.
Just ask Wile E.
I meant to stand on while scaling the wall.
I think it’s a title, like doctor.
He really looks like a Bubba.
Furthering his Bubba status:
Leroux had recently spoken out against Pollock because of his protest of Pride events in London.
I just heard Dark Winds is coming back for a second season. Maybe an idea for an episode? That is, unless they’re only adapting the Hillerman books.
Oily penny boss fined $39,000
This is why I’m not a judge. I would have ordered him to change his business name to “Asshole Repair Shop”, change his sign, website and all other logos. And to answer his phone “Asshole Repair Shop, Chief Asshole speaking.”
What kind of education do you need to repair assholes? An apprenticeship?