# Uncollected NYC garbage breaks would-be suicide jumper's fall

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**Created:** [January 4, 2011, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uncollected-nyc-garbage-breaks-would-be-suicide-jumpers-fall/566392 "2011-01-04T17:38:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2011, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uncollected-nyc-garbage-breaks-would-be-suicide-jumpers-fall/566392/21 "2011-01-04T21:27:17Z")

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> [@EvilTOJ](#):
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> Great, the trash puns have started. Well I refuse to participate in that.

I see what you’ve bin up to.

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**Author:** ![fuzzypickles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9d8465/32.png) [@fuzzypickles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fuzzypickles)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2011, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uncollected-nyc-garbage-breaks-would-be-suicide-jumpers-fall/566392/22 "2011-01-04T23:01:52Z")

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> [@EvilTOJ](#):
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> Great, the trash puns have started. Well I refuse to participate in that.

We can always recycle them.

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**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2011, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uncollected-nyc-garbage-breaks-would-be-suicide-jumpers-fall/566392/23 "2011-01-05T20:59:51Z")

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[Strangely prescient webcomic from a few weeks ago](http://www.basketcasecomix.com/?p=1552).

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**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2011, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uncollected-nyc-garbage-breaks-would-be-suicide-jumpers-fall/566392/24 "2011-01-05T21:41:40Z")

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There is some historical precedent. 🙂

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> On May 23, 1618, an assembly of Protestants, led by Count Thurn whom the Emperor had deprived of his post as Castellan of Karlstadt and who, in reaction to an inflammatory letter received from the Emperor’s principal adviser, Bishop Klesl, had exhorted his followers to throw the Regents appointed by the Emperor out the window “as is customary”, bribed their way into the Prague Castle (the Hradschin) where the Regents were meeting…
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> The Regents were thrown out the third floor window along with the Regents’ secretary, Philip Fabricius. They fell 30 metres [2] and landed on a large pile of manure in a dry moat and survived. Philip Fabricius was later ennobled by the emperor and granted the title von Hohenfall (lit. meaning “of Highfall”).
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> Roman Catholic Imperial officials claimed that the three men survived due to the mercy of angels assisting the righteousness of the Catholic cause. Protestant pamphleteers asserted that their survival had more to do with the horse excrement in which they landed than the benevolent acts of the angels.

[Defenestrations of Prague](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defenestrations_of_Prague)

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