“I was just standing there minding my own business when the ground flew up at me and hit me in the…well, everywhere…”
Apparently, he was under investigation and this is now being called a suicide.
I used to really enjoy that store, but something about it changed and I don’t even know what.
"The NYPD said in a statement Sunday that Arnal, 52, was found unconscious and unresponsive outside his luxury 57-story skyscraper in the neighborhood of Tribeca around 12:30 p.m. Friday. Police said the man “appeared to suffer from injuries indicative from a fall from an elevated position.” EMS responded and pronounced the man dead, police said.
The law enforcement source told CNN Sunday that Arnal’s wife witnessed him jump. The source said while no suicide note was found, no criminality is suspected."
I feel bad for his poor wife - that must have been awful to see.
It was probably even worse for the EMS responders
My first thought of this was Mrs. Baylock pushing Katherine Thorn out the hospital window in The Omen. This may have been a suicide but I doubt it. People who piss off Putin tend to die by what are termed accidents or suicides.
"Polonium - 210 is poisonous? It is? Since when?”
Not sure if you’re serious?
“Polonium is one of the most toxic substances known. According to some sources, it is up to a trillion times more toxic than hydrogen cyanide. It is radioactive because it emits alpha particles (helium ions). Because these are easily absorbed by other materials, even by a few thin sheets of paper or by a few centimetres of air, polonium has to be inside your body to damage you.”
Kids these days. No familiarity with the classics.
Another one:
Russian sausage tycoon Pavel Antov has been found dead at an Indian hotel, two days after a friend died during the same trip.
They were visiting the eastern state of Odisha and the millionaire, who was also a local politician, had just celebrated his birthday at the hotel.
Antov was a well known figure in the city of Vladimir, east of Moscow.
Last summer he denied criticising Russia’s war in Ukraine after a message appeared on his WhatsApp account.
The millionaire’s death is the latest in a series of unexplained deaths involving Russian tycoons since the start of the Russian invasion, many of whom have openly criticised the war.
Reports in Russian media said Mr Antov, 65, had fallen from a window at the hotel in the city of Rayagada on Sunday. Another member of his four-strong Russian group, Vladimir Budanov, died at the hotel on Friday.
“unexplained”
Of course. He just fell out of a window. No connection at all with all the other defenestrations of Russian oligarchs
No, no, it’s only defenestration when you’re pushed out the window. These guys all just fell on their own.
These words he speaks are true!
We’re all humanary stew
If we don’t pledge allegiance to
The blank window
Sorry Chronos, you are quite correct. There is obviously a major health and safety issue there.
Gravity–that’s obviously the culprit! Oughta be a law or something.
“To toad venom: the cause of–and solution to–all of life’s problems”.
I’m surprised so many multi-story hotels have windows that open. Or do they break them?
At first I thought it was an issue of Russian building codes and design, but the latest incidents occurred in India.
So clearly this must be some sort of Russian genetic allergy to wealth that causes one to become accident prone near open windows or become magnetized to unhealthy levels of naturally occurring refined polonium.
No other possible explanation
It’s not always awful. Thinking of the “beautiful suicide.”
Here is a list of people you should not currently want to be: a Russian sausage tycoon, a Russian gas-industry executive, the editor in chief of a Russian tabloid, a Russian shipyard director, the head of a Russian ski resort, a Russian aviation official, or a Russian rail magnate. Anyone answering to such a description probably ought not stand near open windows, in almost any country, on almost every continent.
Over the weekend, Pavel Antov, the aforementioned sausage executive, a man who had reportedly expressed a dangerous lack of enthusiasm for Vladimir Putin’s war against Ukraine, was found dead at a hotel in India, just two days after one of his Russian travel companions died at the same hotel. Antov was reported to have fallen to his death from a hotel window. The meat millionaire and his also-deceased friend are the most recent additions to a macabre list of people who have succumbed to Sudden Russian Death Syndrome, a phenomenon that has claimed the lives of a flabbergastingly large number of businessmen, bureaucrats, oligarchs, and journalists. The catalog of these deaths—which includes alleged defenestrations, suspected poisonings, suspicious heart attacks, and supposed suicides—is remarkable for the variety of unnatural deaths contained within as well as its Russian-novel length.
Some two dozen notable Russians have died in 2022 in mysterious ways, some gruesomely.
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