UPI, Toronto
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Police said a lawyer demonstrating the safety of windows in a downtown Toronto skyscraper crashed through through a pane with his shoulder and plunged 24 floors to his death. A police spokesman said Garry Hoy, 39, fell into the courtyard of the Toronto Dominion Bank Tower early Friday evening as he was explaining the strength of the building's windows to visiting law students.
Hoy previously had conducted demonstrations of window strength according to police reports. Peter Lauwers, managing partner
of the firm Holden Day Wilson, told the Toronto Sun newspaper that Hoy was one of the best and brightest members of the 200-man association.
JSkills Commentary:
Sorry, but I cannot resist this one. Exactly how "bright" could he have been to let this happen to himself? Wasn't there anyway he could have demonstrated the strength of the windows without actually leaning all of his body weight on it and risking a plunge the length of a couple of football fields down? And what of the poor
impressionable law students who had to witness this? Do you think they've opted for new careers?
This guy was probably one of those people who waited for his subway train inches from the edge of platform without ever looking around behind him when a train was approaching. Ok, I'm sorry, this is a sad story, but on the bright side it does leave the world with one less lawyer and one less Canadian citizen ...
