I had a very sucky Monday, despite a foliage weekend, a great golf weekend and the Patriots winning Sunday night.
The back story. Nine years ago, while in a courthouse in Massachusetts I was unlucky enough to see a prisoner try to commit suicide by jumping from the third floor. Despite the "splat", he lived with 200 broken bones.
Yesterday, in the same court, I was schmoozing with a bunch of people, when a gut feeling made me turn, see an object falling at great speed and then a thud. Same guy. Jumped again. Different sound. Fourth floor this time. Dead.
To make matters worse, some asshole yelled "gun" and hundreds of people panicked on cue, jumping over judges' benches, infesting the clerk's offices and probation, trampling everything and everyone in sight. They closed the courthouse.
I cannot get the sight of the body falling, nor of people panicking and smashing each other out of the way out of my mind. Mondays suck.
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last commentWow! Sorry to learn that happened to you. Sorry for the jumper, too.
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^ The story is BS. Everything but him having a fun weekend, that is.
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Most courthouses are designed to prevent exactly this kind of occurrence. The same guy? Twice? It strains credulity.
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^^ 100% fact. Look it up on the Worcester Telegram and Gazette.
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My Monday was pretty good, started with two scratch offs first paid me $100 second paid $50. The day got better from there, played golf and won $75 with a few buddies, Then we went to lunch and I used a rewards gift card to pick up the tab for all of us.Monday evening I played poker with a bunch of friends won $275.
All in it was a winner for me.
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I stand corrected. A guy did jump from the fourth floor balcony to his death at the Worcester County Courthouse.
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