Man dies after being suspended from a chimney in Carlisle

[beesonthewhatnow]

you can't safely land on anything soft from 90m up. Well Maybe a 87M tall beenbag.

"Hold my beer"

 

[Baronage-Phase]

Hope he is still alive.

 

[danny la rouge]

I'd be amazed if he was still alive

The police have been reported as saying there are “no signs of life”, which isn’t the same as signs of no life, but it doesn’t sound good. What a grim accident.

 

[Weller]

How did he get up there?
And why cant someone or two just follow him up and grab him and cut his laces to release him...and let him drop into a big blown up cushion like they use for stunts in films.

“A helicopter has been used to try to rescue the man and efforts have been made to try to drop a technical rescue team onto the chimney to rescue him.

“These two attempts have not been successful so far due to concerns over how securely the man is attached to the ladder at the top of the chimney – and the potential danger of backdrafts from the helicopter.

“These concerns over how securely he is attached have also prevented us from sending someone up the ladder from the bottom. The ladder is also damaged.

Cumbria Police

 

[butchersapron]

Died

 

[TheHoodedClaw]

BBC Cumbria reporting that the man died

 

[brogdale]

Died

Sorry, gotta say; feel a little queasy about some of the joshing in here tbh...must have been in a desperate state to get himself there.

 

[cupid_stunt]

How sad.

 

[danny la rouge]

Shit. Poor man.

 

[Marty1]

Poor bloke.

 

[steeplejack]

Yep, horrible story and end...

 

[hash tag]

Sad news however it happened.

 

[xenon]

Grim. Poor sod.

 

[brogdale]

Spoiler: dangling bloke

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Fucking hell.

Maybe edit pic away cupid_stunt ?

 

[Baronage-Phase]

Shit. That's sad.

 

[editor]

He was in his 50s and from Carlisle. Poor chap.
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[danny la rouge]

15 hours he was up there.

 

[Spymaster]

Is his ankle tied or stuck up there? If the former then a stag night prank? If the latter then a clumsy suicide?

Stag night prank!

You seriously think a couple of his mates thought "Let's dangle John by his ankle off a 290ft chimney" and then carried him up there, tied him up and fucked off????

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

Horrible

 

[Mumbles274]

Maybe edit pic away cupid_stunt ?

Good idea, or editor could delete?

 

[maomao]

Stag night prank!

You seriously think a couple of his mates thought "Let's dangle John by his ankle off a 290ft chimney" and then carried him up there, tied him up and fucked off????

Wasn't being overly serious no. Won't elaborate now we know the poor sod's dead.

 

[spanglechick]

In the picture, the attached foot is right up on the very top rung of the ladder - which is itself a good bit higher up than the level of the top of the chimney.

I can’t work out why you’d have your foot on that top rung to start with. Unless maybe he fell and tried to save himself by hooking his foot over?


It’s so awful and strange. Poor bloke and his poor family.

The lack of shirt is the thing that’s making me saddest, for some reason.

 

[Plumdaff]

It's terrible. Poor man and his family. What an ordeal

 

[StoneRoad]

Dreadful tragedy.

The only sensible reason I can think of for him to have been up there, is that he might have been working on the lightning conductor.

His shirt might have fallen off when he capsized and struggled to right himself.

 

[tonysingh]

What an utterly sad and lonely way to go. Poor bloke.

 

[Duncan2]

Dreadful tragedy.

The only sensible reason I can think of for him to have been up there, is that he might have been working on the lightning conductor.

His shirt might have fallen off when he capsized and struggled to right himself.

A possibility but if he was a legit contractor he would have had kit and the cops would have found that out by now.

 

[cupid_stunt]

Maybe edit pic away cupid_stunt ?

Why?

It's all over news sites & various social media sites, the editor has IMO rightly put it in a spoiler tag, why should it be censored from urban?

 

[brogdale]

Why?

It's all over news sites & various social media sites, the editor has IMO rightly put it in a spoiler tag, why should it be censored from urban?

i did say maybe; it's your call and you seem to have made your decision.

 

[treelover]

Too much levity been on this thread.

 

[tonysingh]

Too much levity been on this thread.

I think, maybe at first, the levity could be excused, before the full facts became clear. Now they have, I don't think anyone here would be glib.