OrangeSoul Posted December 1, 2005 Share Posted December 1, 2005 It's a trick that always seems to work in the movies, but a teenager's attempt to escape a 15th-floor apartment by climbing down an improvised rope of bed sheets ended in a tragic death over the weekend. Detective Martin Woodhouse of Toronto Police said the boy, 16, and his friend were visiting a female friend's apartment on Saturday evening. The girl was not allowed to have male visitors and her parents came home unexpectedly. "Her parents were coming home and she knows she's not allowed to have people at home. So they decided to tie some bed sheets together and sneak out that way. The first boy went, and obviously didn't make it," Det. Woodhouse said. "He screamed and he fell. They looked out and there he was." No names are being released at the parents' request. The three were all Grade 11 students at Maplewood High School in Scarborough. Det. Woodhouse said the teens were only able to gather seven or eight bed sheets as they scrambled to escape the apartment. They were hoping to climb from the 15th floor to the third or fourth, and take their chances by jumping from there "If you did your math, [eight bed sheets] wouldn't get you to the third or fourth floor," Det. Woodhouse said. He estimates they would have had about 16 metres of rope, enough to get just less than halfway down the building. "I don't even know if they realized how short they were going to come up." The girl's boyfriend was waiting to go second when they heard the scream. Det. Woodhouse said the girl's parents are Guyanese and she has been brought up under strict rules. "She knows she shouldn't have boys in the apartment when nobody else was home," he said. "They weren't doing anything other than talking or listening to music, but I guess to them it was worth the risk of going down the bed sheets." Det. Woodhouse said he interviewed the girl afterward. "She's obviously quite upset," he said. Her boyfriend, the boy who survived, was also visibly shaken. Det. Woodhouse would not say whose idea it was to use the bed sheets as a means of escape. The incident happened at an apartment complex at 15 Cougar Court, near Markham Road and Eglinton Avenue. One resident of the building said last night that he had just learned of the incident. "I'm kind of shocked. This is a sad thing to happen, to have a young man losing his life," said the man, who did not want to be identified. Another resident, Baskar Alvar, said he has never heard of anything like this in the eight years he has lived in the apartment building. Mr. Alvar said his two young daughters saw flashing police lights on Saturday and came to get him. They live on the fifth floor. "They were worrying about what happened," he said. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/Art...ational/Toronto Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chopyaedoff Posted December 1, 2005 Share Posted December 1, 2005 what's happened to common sence :rolleyes: Common sence would be a lot better if it was just a little bit more common Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rishid Posted December 2, 2005 Share Posted December 2, 2005 Wow people are getting dumber by the day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scudworth Posted December 2, 2005 Share Posted December 2, 2005 what's happened to common sence :rolleyes: "Common sense is not so Common." - Voltaire. Can anyone say Darwin award nominee? I wouldn't think they were quite so stupid if they hadn't thought they could make it 11-12 floors with 7-8 bedsheets in one shot... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allan Posted December 2, 2005 Share Posted December 2, 2005 Bed sheets always look like they work ... mmmm *note to self ... * ... *LOL* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
strekship Posted December 2, 2005 Share Posted December 2, 2005 Hasn't this already been posted? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
webeagle12 Posted December 2, 2005 Share Posted December 2, 2005 umm the same thread is 6 posts down, why post again?? :sleep: :sleep: https://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=402781 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nomis_nehc Posted December 2, 2005 Share Posted December 2, 2005 omg... the idiots we have living on this planet. i am sure they could've exited some other way?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madnuke Posted December 2, 2005 Share Posted December 2, 2005 Thats retarded, why not just hide somewhere or use common sense? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soham Posted December 2, 2005 Share Posted December 2, 2005 yup the pupils are getting dull Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soham Posted December 2, 2005 Share Posted December 2, 2005 double post sorry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deuz Posted December 3, 2005 Share Posted December 3, 2005 stupid stupid ppl...it shows u dont try anything they do in cartoons :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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