Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Awning Jumping

It goes without saying that the possibility that there may have been a plot to assassinate Obama in Denver is pretty disturbing. But what's up with this?
When authorities knocked on the man’s door, they say he jumped out of his sixth floor window, landing on an awning and running from the scene. They say they soon found him with a broken ankle.
Did this really happen? I know jumping out of windows onto awnings looks great in movies, but it always strikes me as less than believable that (a) there would conveniently happen to be an awning directly below your window on the occasion that you needed to jump out of it, (b) somebody would actually be confident enough in the awning to take the jump, (c) the awning would be strong enough not to let the jumper just tear through it but soft enough that that the person would survive the impact, and (d) there wouldn't be some kind of supporting frame of, say, metal or wood underneath the awning.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Eric,
I know you are skeptical of mainstream media, but on the news last night here in Denver, the window of The Cherry Creek Inn (floor 6) was shown open. Below the window was a section of the building that he could have jumped onto.
Besides, they were on meth. That would explain a lot.
Mom

Anonymous said...

And, the guy's name was Omar!
Mom

Hallie said...

did you know that dad had to sign the warrant to lock away the one with the blond hair?

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