It isn’t often we have occasion to employ the term “accidental self-defenestration” in an article, but that phrase certainly applies to the case of Garry Hoy, a 38-year-old lawyer with the Toronto law firm of Holden Day Wilson, who on 9 July 1993 plunged to his death from the 24th floor of the Toronto-Dominion Bank Tower building at TD Centre in front of several horrified witnesses:
Police said a lawyer demonstrating the safety of windows in a downtown Toronto skyscraper crashed through a pane with his shoulder and plunged 24 floors to his death. A police spokesman said Garry Hoy fell into the courtyard of the Toronto Dominion Bank Tower early Friday evening as he was explaining the strength of the building’s windows to visiting law students. Hoy previously had conducted demonstrations of window strength according to police reports. Peter Lauwers, managing partner of the firm Holden Day Wilson, told the Toronto Sun newspaper that Hoy was “one of the best and brightest” members of the 200-man association.
Last month, in Minneapolis, I climbed the stairs of a row house to find Al Franken, Minnesota’s disgraced former senator, wandering around in jeans and stocking feet. It was a sunny day, but the shades were mostly drawn. Takeout containers of hummus and carrot sticks were set out on the kitchen table. His wife, Franni Bryson, was stuck in their apartment in Washington, D.C., with a cold, and he had evidently done the best he could to be hospitable. But the place felt like the kind of man cave where someone hides out from the world, which is more or less what Franken has been doing since he resigned, in December, 2017, amid accusations of sexual impropriety.
Ep. 182 – A Dozen Decent Docents
Ep. 181 – Manipulation Under Anesthesia
Ep. 180 – Jean-Claude Swan Dam
Ep. 179 – Porcinematic
Ep. 178 – Louisianimal
Ep. 177 – The Apocalypse and Raking: The Quixotic Relationship Between Leaves and the Human Race
Ep. 176 – Take the Cannoli
Ep. 175 – I Love A Good Conversion
Ep. 174 – Whizzes and Clicks
Ep. 173 – Clam the Hammer Down
Ep. 172 – Encore Chicken
Ep. 171 – Use Your Nose Horn
Ep. 170 – Coconut Grass
Ep. 169 – Needle in the Neck
Ep. 168 – Treachery Not in the Age of Electronics
Ep. 167 – Window Pain
Ep. 166 – Independents' Day
Ep. 165 – Early Ankle Digestion
Ep. 164 – Dancing with the Fishes
Ep. 163 – Scored Some Lunkers
Create your
podcast in
minutes
It is Free
If You Give A Dad A Podcast
Cheeky Chops comedy podcast.
Adam Carolla Show
Wait Wait... Don’t Tell Me!
Office Ladies