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. 121 – Dental Nipple Clips
Ep. 120 – The Quick and the Dead
Ep. 119 – Let's Get Stinko
Ep. 118 – The Goldilocks of Office Life
Ep. 117 – Celestial, but also Practical and Useful
Ep. 116 – Two Fish with One Worm
Ep. 115 – Overwhelming Insidious Lack of Control
Ep. 114 – A Web of Spiders
Ep. 113 – He slapped him with a black snake
Ep. 112 – Elemeno, my dear Watson
Ep. 111 – Writ Large on the Tablets of Time
Ep. 110 – Plan B Better Be Better
Ep. 109 – Double Trunked Tree
Ep. 108 – Time is a Sequence of Atoms...and Eves
Ep. 107 – Square Cavage
Ep. 106 – Clack – Clack – Clack
Ep. 105 – Dead Squirrel Brine
Ep. 104 – Synoptic Truck Rest
Ep. 103 – The Corner Cracked Off
Ep. 102 – The Epitome of Frivolity
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