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By Associated Press
POSTED: 08:48 a.m. EDT, Apr 09, 2009
NEW YORK: Authorities say a woman who jumped to her death inside a busy New York City mall landed on a teenager, causing injuries that sent him to a hospital.
The lower level of the Queens Center Mall was packed with high school students on spring break when the woman jumped Wednesday.
Seventeen-year-old Derrick MuInoz had been sitting in a massage chair with a sign reading, ‘‘sit back and relax,’’ when the woman landed on him.
The teen's stepbrother says Munoz was briefly knocked unconscious and has a large gash on his head.
Queens District Attorney Richard A. Brown says the woman was in her early to mid-50s. She was with two teenagers before she plunged from the third floor.
Information from the New York Times, http://www.nytimes.com.
NEW YORK: Authorities say a woman who jumped to her death inside a busy New York City mall landed on a teenager, causing injuries that sent him to a hospital.
The lower level of the Queens Center Mall was packed with high school students on spring break when the woman jumped Wednesday.
Seventeen-year-old Derrick MuInoz had been sitting in a massage chair with a sign reading, ‘‘sit back and relax,’’ when the woman landed on him.
The teen's stepbrother says Munoz was briefly knocked unconscious and has a large gash on his head.
Queens District Attorney Richard A. Brown says the woman was in her early to mid-50s. She was with two teenagers before she plunged from the third floor.
Information from the New York Times, http://www.nytimes.com.
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akron, oh
Posted 08:53 AM, 04/09/2009
Better spend 1.5 Million and put up a fence.
Anti-Politically Correct & Anti-GOP, OH
Posted 08:53 AM, 04/09/2009
Economy.
akron, oh
Posted 09:08 AM, 04/09/2009
what no bridges around?
Snydertown, OH
Posted 09:13 AM, 04/09/2009
she may have been responsible for the 2 home invasions in Akron.
Akron, OH
Posted 09:15 AM, 04/09/2009
It's new york, it would cost 10 times as much there as the "Y" bridge here.
akron, oh
Posted 09:16 AM, 04/09/2009
Was the jumper a big fat woman?
Akron, OH
Posted 09:22 AM, 04/09/2009
Oh no, and the mall without a fence too.
Tepplin, DC
Posted 09:28 AM, 04/09/2009
That's messed up. At least if you are going to kill yourself, don't hurt anyone else in the process.
Akron, Oh
Posted 09:44 AM, 04/09/2009
Fencing the Y bridge would've prevented this woman from ending her life, and traumatizing the teen...oh wait maybe fencing the Y bridge will cause more people to commit "suicide by cop" as first recognized in my home town...
How did authorities determine jump vs. push or accident? honest question (I don't watch CSI); I dunno.
Waponi , Wu
Posted 09:44 AM, 04/09/2009
A diving board on the "Y" bridge would be much cheaper. Rename it the "Y me" bridge.
Tallmadge , OH
Posted 10:16 AM, 04/09/2009
" Y Me Bridge " HAHAHAHA
Awesome post !
akron, oh
Posted 10:20 AM, 04/09/2009
Ive always said those mall prices could make you
want to kill your self.
Cuyahoga Falls, OH
Posted 10:22 AM, 04/09/2009
Ermine: now THAT'S FUNNY. Good post!
Posted 10:53 AM, 04/09/2009
It's sad to know that we have such insensitive people in Akron. Surely, you have not been touched by unspeakable tragedy. Have a Blessed Easter.
AKRON, OH
Posted 11:12 AM, 04/09/2009
I agress CarolynC...unless they have had a family member commit suicide or even jump from the bridge and still be alive they would never understand but on the other hand they are sitting behind a computer screen complaining about every single article that gets posted
AKRON, OH
Posted 11:12 AM, 04/09/2009
agree*
akron, oh
Posted 11:29 AM, 04/09/2009
Carolyn, West Akron Resident. Don't pass judgement because we are sarcastic, that makes you just as bad as the rest of us. If all posts are taken literally, it defeats the purpose. Have a great Easter.
Posted 11:44 AM, 04/09/2009
at least she wasn't holding up traffic. i hate that.
Posted 11:46 AM, 04/09/2009
"makes you just as bad..." then you must agree. I am simply stating a fact. Sarcasam is fine...where it belongs...but to some, your sarcasam ( and those that feed off of it) sounds as if it is your honest viewpoint. And how does that make you look? Nothing wrong with sarcasam, but have some sensitivity when applying.
spring, tx
Posted 11:54 AM, 04/09/2009
To lose someone in such a tragic manner is no a laughing matter. I pray that you never have to go through it. God Bless!
Front Line, KC
Posted 12:20 PM, 04/09/2009
ARFWOOF - Y Me bridge
So funny.... Coke came out my nose!!!
Front Line, KC
Posted 12:22 PM, 04/09/2009
By the way, did the chair make it? That would be a great selling point.
Akron, Oh
Posted 12:23 PM, 04/09/2009
I know suicide is serious, but this picture I got in my mind as I read the story...well....I laughed,
Chicago, IL
Posted 12:25 PM, 04/09/2009
Ignorance Kills-
I agree
Posted 12:30 PM, 04/09/2009
arfwoof- hillariuos. my first thought was y meeeeeeeeee SPLAT!
akron, oh
Posted 01:45 PM, 04/09/2009
To my fellow Ghost writers,i THOUGHT a lot of you
were sick classless toads.Now I KNOW it.Me too at
times.
akron, oh
Posted 01:48 PM, 04/09/2009
Carolyn, the sarcasm is pointed at her death. No one wants to see anyone die. The irony is that we live in a city willing to spend the money to put up an expensive fence. Calm down.
Akron, OH
Posted 01:51 PM, 04/09/2009
@Ken - And put a large dumpster on the ground with a bullseye painted in it!
somewhere near you, US
Posted 02:08 PM, 04/09/2009
Let's just hope that area has some stimulus money available to fence the mall. Maybe the idiot mayor of Akron could work a deal with them to get a quantity discount on the fence.
"Sit back and relax", how ironic is that?
Cuyahoga Falls, OH
Posted 02:17 PM, 04/09/2009
CarolynC, enough of the humor police routine. At no point did anyone make light of this woman's death, there was an editorial comment (and a darn good one, hee hee!) made in reference to Mayor Don's 1.5 million fence blunder. Opposing the fence plans does not in and of itself make one insensitive or "pro-death." The debate is centered on the efficacy of the fence project itself; would we get our money's worth out of it.
If you're going to condescend to people, at least get it in the right context.
"I belive you can joke about anything... it just depends on how the joke is constructed, what the level of exaggeration is." - George Carlin
Akron, Oh
Posted 03:09 PM, 04/09/2009
Wouldn't that be just my luck, I'm 17, my whole life ahead of me, dating, no responsibilities, the world belongs to me, then splat!!! A fat lady falls out of the sky and crushes you, d@mn the luck.
Cuyahoga Falls, OH
Posted 04:38 PM, 04/09/2009
I agree. If you're gonna off yourself and are determined to take somebody out with you, make it somebody whose untimely death is actually going to help someone else.
I can think of 19 people whose "murder" on 9-10-01 would've saved a lot of lives.
Copley Twp, OH
Posted 05:02 PM, 04/09/2009
What about the person she jumped on? Hope he is ok phycically and mentally.
Lefty Lemmingville, Oh
Posted 05:44 PM, 04/09/2009
Great.....assault with a dead weapon.
Akron, Oh
Posted 06:50 PM, 04/09/2009
did she die or did she just get injuried, I didn't understand, she landed on him, what caused her fatal injuries?
Posted 07:22 PM, 04/09/2009
shes dead you people need to read the whole story and i never saw where it said she was fat and so what if she was suocide is nothing to joke about!!!!
Funtown, OH
Posted 08:51 PM, 04/09/2009
One question to Question Authority, or anyone else out there that is wondering...what is that pic you got going on? It looks quite disgusting ???
Is it my imagination?
Walnut Creek, Oh
Posted 09:40 PM, 04/09/2009
"Watch that last step...It's a big one", said Bugs Bunny to Yosemite Sam
Posted 09:42 PM, 04/09/2009
It's not the fall......
Posted 09:43 PM, 04/09/2009
It's the sudden stop!
Cleveland, OH
Posted 10:34 PM, 04/09/2009
If this was your mother, would you find it funny?
akron, oh
Posted 10:55 PM, 04/09/2009
If it had happened at Rolling Acres nobody would have been in the chair.
Really how do you fall one story, land on a poor kid and die? Not that far of a fall.
Posted 11:24 PM, 04/09/2009
olfuzzster ... Read the last sentence of the last paragraph. She plunged from the third floor ...
Posted 11:30 PM, 04/09/2009
"did she die or did she just get injuried, I didn't understand, she landed on him, what caused her fatal injuries?"
When you jump to your death ... You die. When you commit suicide ... You die. Just what is there about that that you don't understand? Are you dumb or what?
Posted 11:32 PM, 04/09/2009
Does this remind anyone else of the Naked Gun movie, when the fat girl fell from the top level during the baseball game?
Broken Arrow, OK
Posted 11:41 PM, 04/09/2009
thunder31
ROFLM - ENTIRE - AO!!!!!!
Posted 11:41 PM, 04/09/2009
gildee ... When you jump to your death ... You die. When you commit suicide ... You die. Just what is it about that that you don't understand?
Are you stupid or what?
Posted 11:52 PM, 04/09/2009
"If this was your mother, would you find it funny"
Personally ... I'm not sure. Probably not ... But I did laugh at my dad when he fell on the ice. He looked kind of funny holding onto the side mirror of his truck. Both of his legs just sort of kept skidding out from under him ... The only thing keeping him from hitting the ground was the mirror. He was holding on for dear life ... It was pretty funny at the time ... Guess you had to be there to see the humor.
WADSWORTH, OH
Posted 04:33 AM, 04/10/2009
this was one stupid suicidal person.did she not 'look before you jump'? thats the first rule of suicidal jumping off of objects to end life-it was HER CHOICE TO JUMP.
she should of done like Crakronites do and just fly like a bird off the great Y bridge.
maybe she was 'one fry shy of a happy meal'
Posted 07:57 AM, 04/10/2009
People will be jumping off the mayors desk to kill themselves !
Akron, , OH
Posted 08:41 AM, 04/10/2009
Medenhall wants to recall her too.
somewhere near you, US
Posted 10:34 AM, 04/10/2009
Enuff Already,
It is an image of Jesus. Got a problem with that?
If you can't see that, it says something, and it's not flattering, about your mind.
Posted 12:02 PM, 04/10/2009
win1car- if it were my mother i would be p.o.'d that i couldn't collect on the life insurance policy. if people want to die there is no one stopping them, no matter how hard you try.
Posted 12:13 PM, 04/10/2009
Some of you are really sick.
Ouch would be mad they can't collect on the insurance. Well I would be sad because I lost my mother. But then some of you must really hate your parents and everybody around you.
To those who say "It was only sarcasm, I was just joking." Yeah, and we could all tell because this is a text post that shows all your emotions and intent at humor. If you're joking or being sarcastic, try using a :) or ;)
And to those who keep harping on the Y-Bridge fence, I know you hae a hundred better ways to spend that money. Too bad none of them apply to the restrictions in place on certain grants and funds supplied by the federal government to the cities and states. But that doesn't matter to you, rational thought and reasoning are beyond many of you. Its easier to sling insults and complain about everything around you. (Yes, now I'm doing it too!)
Akron, OH
Posted 02:07 PM, 04/10/2009
What slays me is that that AP included the "sit back and relax" sign in the article! These people on this tiny little local thread are giving us all grief about sarcasm. AP reports to darn near the whole world!
BTW, I wonder if she saw she was going to land on the guy on the way down? "MY BAD!" THUNK!
;0)
Posted 02:20 PM, 04/10/2009
Any body ever watch Funniest Home Videos ~ Some of their clips are kind of sick, but they are funny too!
Tallmadge, OH
Posted 02:51 PM, 04/10/2009
"Y me bridge" I love it! I hope it catches on!
And how selfish of this lady to do this where she could hurt someone else! She was in New York, should have tried going over the falls-more entertaining and no one to land on.
Posted 07:49 PM, 04/10/2009
this story is so funny!!!!!!!!!
Posted 08:13 PM, 04/10/2009
wow that made sense
Posted 11:20 PM, 04/10/2009
She was with two teenagers. Mystery solved!
somewhere near you, US
Posted 11:58 PM, 04/10/2009
posted by fatgirlsneedluv2:
"TO QUESTION-AUTHORITY-
HEY JESUS D-BAG...IT'S GOOD FRIDAY..DON'T YOU HAVE SOME SCRIPTURE READING TO DO OR GOIN HOUSE TO HOUSE WITH UR RIDICULOUS AND ANNOYING PRAYER PESTERING...GET A LIFE D-BAG!!
OH YEAH..IF WE WANTED UR THOUGHTS WE'ED GO TO CHURCH!"
If people hadn't complained about my avatar, you'd NEVER hear a word about religion from me.
The name you've chosen and your thoughts prove you to be an idiot twice over.
You just don't have a clue.
Akron, Ohio
Posted 12:33 AM, 04/11/2009
I would commit suicide if I had to live in New York too
clinton, oh
Posted 11:04 AM, 04/11/2009
The teenager cant sue for Injuries
No Justice in the world
akron, oh
Posted 03:19 PM, 04/11/2009
win1car : these people are really stupid..... they find this funny.
Posted 05:47 PM, 04/11/2009
waaaaaaa, people find the acts of idiot people funny, even in suicide......waaaaaaaa....i don't think the people who commited suicide care what we think. Also if you do care then don't read these posts...
Posted 10:30 PM, 04/11/2009
Timber
Akron, Oh
Posted 11:18 PM, 04/11/2009
@class of 76...not everyone that falls die and not everyone commits suicide dies either!
I am not stupid but I can see u r if u have never heard of the ones that attempted to take their life and failed by the grace of God!
@question authority...I can respect your image of Jesus but even u no it looks dull and the image is muddy; try a higher resolution pic
apopka, fl
Posted 11:37 AM, 04/12/2009
I don't wanna know the truth on this one!!!!
Asheville (raised in Akron), NC
Posted 07:42 PM, 04/12/2009
@Question Authority
Are you trying to pass yourself off a Jesus?
akron, oh
Posted 01:15 PM, 04/13/2009
thanx for the laugh that was freakin hilarious..the y-me bridge!!! and yes im proud to say im the one standing at the bottom yelling jump jump jump your holding up traffic
