French financier jumps to death from NYC balcony during apartment showing...

dramatique!

It would be much worse being a person in the vicinity of wherever he landed and seeing his body.

I guess he really hated the apartment.

Did he jump into the void like they say in Switzerland?

"You know, if you don't have the Wolf range in this apartment, you will not like my reaction".

Feel bad for the third floor apartment. Clean up on Aisle 3.

Did the French financier have anything to do with Putin? Was the real estate agent Russian?

I guess they didn't have the open design kitchen he wanted?

"I'm so bored I could die!"

Will the broker be returning to her former life of hairdressing after this trauma?

He hit on Rachel Hunter when he was 25.

[Quote]Charles-Henry Kurzen, a twenty-five-year-old banker from Paris, happened to know a close personal friend of Hunter’s, and he was able to get past security. “I was determined to go upstairs, because Rachel Hunter was there,” Kurzen said. “She is a woman born in 1969—she is thirty-four!—but she is a beautiful, mature woman; a woman of character, a woman of history, a woman who has lived!” Kurzen tried to persuade Hunter to join his countrymen downstairs, but she declined. “Maybe because her party was a business gathering and she could not leave,” he speculated. “Maybe because she found me too young; maybe because she did not like the idea of a French party.” He thought a little longer. “Or maybe it was a question of chic. I do not know.”

[coattailing on R9], I imagine that he tried to light a cigarette during the showing and was told not to smoke, and he was asked about who would be living there, the assumption being that he had a wife/GF or husband/BF:

"When did everybody stop smoking? When did everybody pair off? This used to be the most exciting city in the world…now it’s nothing but smoking near a fucking open window. New York is over. O.V.E.R. Over. No one’s fun anymore. What ever happened to fun?"

Good point, r2

Quel dommage. Qu'y avait-il sur son iPod?

Show me his pic, DL. Then I'll let you know what I think.

iPod, obviously:

"Ah, might as well jump (jump)

Might as well jump

Go ahead and jump (jump)."

Go ahead and jump

SPLAT!!

No one uses iPods anymore.

The question is now, "What's on his/her Spotify playlist?"

I feel like I’ve heard this story before.

Was it Bitcoin?..

[quote]The question is now, "What's on his/her Spotify playlist?"

Please don't mention spot.

"This cat has a neurological disorder and doesn't know how far he has to fall. Boy yoy yoing!"

"No one uses iPods anymore. "

Most of us understand a common word or phrase being used to convey a general concept - here, what would the man be listening to, no matter the mode of listening.

[quote] No one uses iPods anymore.

Don;t you have a TikTok clip to watch or a kpop album to listen to? The adults are talking.

Interlopers are not familiar with DL memes.

O-v-e-r.

Did he make this appointment just to have access to a high floor to jump from?

And some DL memes are not familiar with the passage of time. Or reading the room.

I've gone out the window.

Right R29, we're not familiar with the passage of time. It was R18 who taught most of us, just minutes ago, that iPods aren't used anymore. Fuck, our minds are blown. Fucking CRAZY, like if there were electric cars.

Good thing he didn't die in the apartment. Suicide home is hard to sell.

"What's on their Spotify" is more au courant.

it reminds me of the building in Sliver (1993)

I am waiting for the Tasteful Friends post that shows images of the apartment.

Details are important.

il avait un cul chaud mais il ne pouvait pas tomber pour toujours...

Gretchen, stop trying to make "What's on their Spotify" happen. It's not going to happen!

Thanks for the challenge, gramps!

Expats are always a little crazy. They're so divorced from their original home and culture, it begins to take a toll on their mental health.

Or he put way too much money into crypto

[quote]Good thing he didn't die in the apartment. Suicide home is hard to sell.

Gee, thanks!

Was he wearing an N-95 mask when he jumped? I need to know that before I know how to feel about this story.

I love a French financier.

It was so amazing he leapt at the opportunity to buy it!

Those are some flimsy balconies.

On his iPod?

Tasteful friends...

R47 is the hero we needed. What a beautiful place. I guess money doesn't buy happiness or something like that.

[quote] a group of weekly parties hosted for French ex-patriots in New York City.

Oh dear, New York Post.

Je crois que je peux voler.

Was he an organ donor?

Does the body just… explode hitting the ground?

L'auto-défenestration est si triste, et les sauts sur le balcon sont vulgaires.

[quote] from a 32th-floor balcony

Oh dear.

[quote] Does the body just… explode hitting the ground?

No, Rose. Falling 29 floors onto a hard patio below, it just bounces right back .

R52, try throwing a watermelon off a roof and see what happens.

In extraordinary circumstances you might get something like Evelyn McHale, but most of the time it winds up like someone dropped a Chicago style deep-dish pizza from the roof.

How do you know, R56? Ever seen a fallen person?

[quote] Ever seen a fallen person?

I saw La Traviata at the Met.

No necessarily so. Here's the death photo of Evelyn McHale after jumping from the Empire State Building. Often referred to as the most beautiful suicide. Warhol used the pic in his work.

R57, I've hosed down the pavement after, you little shit.

R60, sure, Juanita!

R59

Evelyn McHale fell onto a limo which was more forgiving than concrete. Still, she died and the car was totaled.

I've plenty of lookie-loos at open houses, but never a jumper.

R63

Le AHHHHHHHHH

R65. I'm flattered you have me blocked, cunt.

R67

R45, floor three seems pretty sturdy.

We are traveling to Paris, by train, shortly...........

How the hell did that lady jump from the Empire State Building no less , and come out completely unscathed?! Damm it’s unreal

[quote] floor three seems pretty sturdy.

Not anymore.

Did you get a look at that tiny kitchen? And you have to use a stepladder in order to get to the microwave. I would have jumped, too, and taken that bitch of a real estate agent with me!

"A view to die for!"

[quote]R71 How the hell did that lady jump, from the Empire State Building no less, and come out completely unscathed?!

Her stockings are ripped. Do you know what those cost??

That U of Penn runner who jumped from the parking garage back in 2014 was also left unscathed. A person who saw her on the ground said they thought maybe she was passed out and drunk. She only had a cut on her cheek.

iPad or Spotify

Imagine being that broke

Was he wearing an N-95 mask when he jumped? I need to know this before I decide how to feel about it.

I hate realtors too

You made that joke already, R79, and it wasn't funny the first time

Another Covid death.

[quote]imagine being that broker?

Next!

[quote] "Le AHHHHHHHHH"

Non, non, non, non, non, R66!

"L'AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!"

R73 I noticed the height of the microwave in that kitchen, too. That seems dangerous because you could burn yourself lifting hot foods and liquids out from a space above your head. And how do reach up to clean it? It’s odd.

A hero indeed, R47.

It's a surprisingly nice apartment, and beautifully furnished (with a bargueño, even), all a surprise for a 1984 building that's rather a dog outside. It even has a little bit of ceiling height.

I've always been told that an 8-story fall (75 feet or more) approaches a metaphysical certitude of death.

Maybe the Frenchman was contemplating the alternate 3-bedroom floor plan and thought, "No, I can't"?

[quote] That U of Penn runner who jumped from the parking garage back in 2014 was also left unscathed.

Parking garages rarely have 32 floors.

R53

"Depuis le bacon."

"Mais quelle hauteur admirable!¨

What, no-one has mentioned the hot cop in the photo?

Fuck off, s'il vous plaît R88, vous prétentieux twit

iPod? What year is this, 2006?

What is metaphysical certitude, R86?

He was fine until the broker walked in and he saw who it was................

R92, a catchphrase (for which I have an occasional and fleeting nostalgia) of the late blowhard political pundit John McLaughlin invariably included in his weekly TV series.

Falling a distance onto a flat surface can have different effects depending on the specific impact profile. Sometimes the body sustains many fractures but the skin maintains its integrity.

Usually, however, broken bones push through the skin. Internal organs may burst out of the thorax and abdomen, and often the rectum blows out of the anus. Clothes often hide some of the mess.

The head, as speculation has suggested, is the biggest problem. The "exploding watermelon" effect is not inevitable but when the impact is a direct head-drop it can be spectacular.

None of this is as bad as the damage a body experiences when ejected onto a road surface from a high-speed vehicle collision, or from being struck at high speed. The skin tears away from the abrasion and tumbling and smacking into posts, trees, other vehicles or other impediments. A long trail of intestines and colon are usually dragged and smeared. When the body also is bouncing and ends up off the roadway, following the bloody path helps find the body. It's very frustrating for law enforcement and EMTs/medical examiners who can't find the body. I've seen bodies ending up in trees and not located for up to 45 minutes after emergency workers arrive at the scene.

I hate you, R95.

per r47's link... "Temporarily Off-Market"

This United Nations Plaza is not the same one where RFK, Johnny Carson and Truman Capote lived if it was built in 1989.

R98, They lived at #860 UNP, the French guy jumped from #100 UNP.

Did he not like the view?

r39, expats tend to be crazy before they leave their country. Their inability to fit in is an inescapable angst.

Muriel please ban R95.

Was he wearing his French Chef's uniform?

I saw two bodies from a fall...one was a jumper who landed on a car. I don't know how far he fell because I wasn't looking up at the time.. The car had a lot of damage but not so much the body.

The other was a 20-year old construction worker who fell 24 stories and landed outside my co-worker's window. That one stayed with me. He didn't have a safety harnesses on and sat on the ledge of the roof. He landed face up with his left arm across his abdomen and the right held up above his head like like he was waving or hailing a cab. His left leg was straight and his right leg was bent (not broken bone bent) and raised. If it weren't for the pool of blood and gray matter around his head he'd look like he was just laying there.

This sort of thing does happen in a condominium building.

I’m ordering French fries with a big side of ketchup for lunch today in his honor.

I wouldn't buy anything in that building.

The balcony construction looks sketchy. Special assessments soon to come.

Thanks, R4,7 for the floorplan. From R107's pic, it looks like he jumped from the small balcony off the master bedroom, rather than the large terrace off the living room.

[quote] No, Rose. Falling 29 floors onto a hard patio below, it just bounces right back .

Thank you, Captain False Opposition.

No, the body doesn’t “explode.” It’s subjected to terrific force when it hit so smashing and dismemberment will probably result. But even bodies hitting the ground from plane explosions don’t “explode.”

Remember when those separatist assholes in eastern Ukraine shot down that Netherlands jetliner? Before censored there were lots of images online of the corpses from the plane lying on the ground. Limbs torn off, traumatic injury, but bodies “unexplored.”

^^^ unexploded

I suspect suicide!

Can I have his stuff?

I think it was the fall from the balcony that killed him!

R100 Have you seen Joy Behar? Enough to make anyone jump.

R114, When Joy removes her glasses, she looks like an embalmed corpse.

New ad for the unit: "Potential Buyers Aren't The Only Thing Dropping, So Is Our Asking Price!"

Preston Sturges was going to commit suicide by jumping from a high floor in a NY hotel. He looked out and a couple of construction workers were working on an upper floor. He just happened to see one of the workers fall to his death. He decided that suicide by jumping was not a good idea.

I was very happy to see Evelyn wore her gloves. Committing suicide in public without proper attire seems the ultimate faux pas.

[quote]I think it was the fall from the balcony that killed him!

It's not the fall that kills you, it's the sudden stop.

When I was a resident at UCLA, one of my fellow residents killed herself jumping off the top level of a parking lot at the Santa Monica Promenade. DOA.

A medical student killed her self by starting an IV in herself and giving herself a big bolus of potassium.

[quote]R108 it looks like he jumped from the small balcony off the master bedroom, rather than the large terrace off the living room.

Perhaps he’d made sexual overtures to the realtor in the bedroom, was rebuffed, and couldn’t handle it?

That's what happens when the real estate agent lays out the wrong cheese platter.

[quote] Perhaps he’d made sexual overtures to the realtor in the bedroom, was rebuffed, and couldn’t handle it?

Or the realtor pushed him over the balcony. We only have the realtor's word that he jumped.

We need to see a pic of the real estate agent.

It has been said that people who fall from a great height may have a fatal heart attack on the way down so it is not necessarily the impact that will kill you.

Good to know.

R124, Could it be? . . .

Touch nothing!

What a fucking asshole. I swear the French are the most awful humans on the planet, even when they’re suicidal.

Did the French financier take cooked books of the rich and famous with him?

[quote]Muriel please ban [R95].

Yeah, I'll get right on that. Right after my mani-pedi. And this reasonably priced Oberon Cabernet. And a couple games of canasta with the girls.

You stupid fuck.

[quote]iPod? What year is this, 2006?

Yeah, that joke is dated. It should be “What was on his playlist?” Or something like that.

What does this stupid thread have to go with datalounge or gay people?

This is bullshit NYPost clickbait GARBAGE.

There isn’t even a mystery to solve here.

Go to the NY post for NY Post posts. It’s ridiculous that straight people won’t let us have our own website.

It involved a realtor. Therefore it’s gay.

R132 not a Tasteful Friend

A Big bolus is a deeply unpleasant phrase.

R134

Now he's with the ex-splat Frenchies.

What does the school shooting have to do with Datalounge or gay people? Anyway real estate agents are notoriously gay. And dear I say so are spectacular suicides.

The French are always pushovers, whether it's a foreign dictator or a balcony.

R102 perhaps deserves to hear what is left to identify after a fiery crash, the double-dealing troll who thinks it's okay to gossip about horrors while ignoring what they entail, because it's all entertainment to her.

R102, another DL hypocrite and cunt:

French financier jumps to death from NYC balcony during apartment showing... Preston Sturges was going to commit suicide by jumping from a high floor in a NY hotel. He looked out and a couple of construction workers were working on an upper floor. He just happened to see one of the workers fall to his death. He decided that suicide by jumping was not a good idea.

French financier jumps to death from NYC balcony during apartment showing... I was very happy to see Evelyn wore her gloves. Committing suicide in public without proper attire seems the ultimate faux pas.

French financier jumps to death from NYC balcony during apartment showing... It has been said that people who fall from a great height may have a fatal heart attack on the way down so it is not necessarily the impact that will kill you.

Good to know.

French financier jumps to death from NYC balcony during apartment showing... What does the school shooting have to do with Datalounge or gay people? Anyway real estate agents are notoriously gay. And dear I say so are spectacular suicides.

Some of us are taking the news of datalounge closing down a littler harder than others, I guess.

[quote]R126 Could it be? . . .

He has KILLER written all over his face!

LOCK ‘IM UP!

We can't read anything that isn't directly and solely about being gay? How tedious some people's mental lives must be.

R95 How right could I have been that you should be banned! I meant it as a joke making a point that we were all joking about this tragedy and you were laying bare exactly what the horror of death consisted of. You must really enjoy this stuff. You are truly one sick fuck. Go back to you photographic homicide books.

Years ago I was acquainted with a guy who worked as an EMT in a county that had a sky diving school. He was called out once when a chute failed to deploy. He said that the body was like a "bag of fertilizer. I didn't as for clarification.

The Latin Times really went for it with this photo... which they parenthetically mention "is a representational image" and not the real thing!

"Either these curtains go, or I do!"

Apres moi, le deluge of lysol and water using a good stiff brush! We don't need flies on a hot day!

He was probably smoking a stinky Gauloises all the way down. And then realized the health warning was true.

Was Candy Spelling the real estate agent?

Was he dropping acid?

I wasn’t even in the neighborhood at the time!

No pix of this guy who was meant to be a prominent banker.

[quote] No pix of this guy who was meant to be a prominent banker

Which may indicate he was a VERY prominent banker moving money for a type of clientele.

R95, we've all seen lots of roadkill. It's never 'that' dramatic.

Jumper sounds like a complete narcissistic asshole @ R11. Typical French.

May have been a mistake.

Oh, for Christ's sake, all he had to say was "I don't want an open kitchen"!

I once read of a jumper who for one reason or another survived the jump. It was from a high place, I think he hit an awning not far below him or something. Anyway he said as soon as he jumped he regretted his decision. After reading that I’ve always wondered how many feel the same but didn’t live to say.

[quote] I think he hit an awning not far below him

And bounced back up, like in a cartoon?

I think this is the one.

90 minute service. He was decent looking, at least per the photo on the easel.

Maybe it was a question of chic.

Peut-être, j'en sais rien.