Can I Go Back to Africa?

[fauxklore]

It decided to be winter overnight. I just walk across the street to get to the metro but that was bad enough, with a nasty coat of ice out there. (I do have cleats but, of course, had not realized what it was like out so had not taken them with me). And we are supposed to get more "wintry mix" tonight and tomorrow.

Then we had a suicide at the building I work in. The initial report is that someone had thrown himself off the roof, but that turned out to be slightly inaccurate (though the effect is the same.) Here's the story from Arlington Now:


A man died this morning after falling from a secure government office building in Crystal City. Initial reports suggest the man may have purposely jumped from a second floor balcony into an outside stairwell adjacent to Crystal Drive.

The building, which houses a number of Department of Defense offices, is located at the corner of Crystal Drive and 18th Street. Arlington County Police, Pentagon Police and other federal law enforcement officers were at the scene of the incident, which occurred shortly after 11:00 this morning.

Shortly before the incident, a Twitter user reported seeing a man in a suit jump onto the tracks at the Crystal City Metro station as a train was approaching. The man then jumped back onto the platform and ran out of the station, the user said. It’s currently not known if the two incidents are connected.

Comments

[ron_newman]

I wouldn't think one could kill oneself jumping from a second floor balcony into snow.

[fauxklore]

There's an outside stairwell on Crystal Drive that goes down into the underground concourse and garage levels. So he would have fallen 4 or 5 stories. And there was not significant snow on the ground. (We had ice earlier but this was mid-day.)