Woman tumbles to death at the Palmer House Hilton hotel (Chicago)

[marmar]

A woman attempting to slide down a stairway railing fell to her death Saturday night at a Downtown hotel.

The 23-year-old woman attempted to slide down the railing at the mezzanine level of a (Palmer House Hilton) hotel at 122 S. Wabash Ave. and fell to the basement level about 10:30 p.m., police said.

Police said the woman suffered head trauma and was dead on the scene.


http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/2851644,hotel-death-woman-103110.article

[n2doc]

1. "Hey Y'all, watch this!" isn't limited to males, apparently n/t

[malaise]

3. Darwin was right

Adios

[The Straight Story]

2. Stayed there a few times, awesome older hotel. Not sure from the story

Where precisely the stairs were they are talking about, guess it is attached to a ball room there.

We should ban halloween parties since she would be alive had it not been for one.

[trumad]

4. Stayed there a couple of weeks ago

I know the stairway they are referring to.

Ouch

[marmar]

5. Yep. There's a long way to fall in that open stairway area.

I can only imagine the trauma of watching something like that unfold.

[trumad]

6. It would be pretty stupid to try and slide on the rail.....

[marmar]

7. I'm going to take a wild guess and assume she'd had a few beverages....

..... I've been stuck in a hotel on Halloween weekend before. Drunken assholes everywhere.

[joshcryer]

9. Yep, inertia.

I'd be surprised if someone could successfully make it down while sober. But at least sober you could bail out to the stairs rather to the ... basement floor.

[kgnu_fan]

8. wow, makes me feel nauseated