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. 163 – Scored Some Lunkers
Ep. 162 – Not Worth a Bucket of Spit
Ep. 161 – Life is good, albeit out of focus
Ep. 160 – Man To Your Right Shuffles
Ep. 159 – The Hustle is Multidimensional
Ep. 158 – The Beer is the Same; It's You That's Different
Ep. 157 – Sandy on the Way Home
Ep. 156 – Peastone Cowboy
Ep. 155 – Whistlethon
Ep. 154 – Smirk to Irk
Ep. 153 – The Sustainable Choice
Ep. 152 – Overwhelmed by the Joy
Ep. 151 – 82º of Kevin Bacon
Ep. 150 – I Had a Synapse
Ep. 149 – She was a good sport about it, and then we drove home
Ep. 148 – Two Legs Ain't No Picnic
Ep. 147 – Trout Jitsu
Ep. 146 – Down Where The Rats Ran
Ep. 145 – A Family of Sweepers
Ep. 144 – Don't hesitate. Lubricate.
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