Man Dies in Escalator Stunt

LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- A man died after falling several stories in a Hollywood shopping mall while apparently attempting to slide down the banister of an escalator, authorities said.

The victim's friends told officials investigating the Saturday night incident at the Hollywood & Highland Center that the man "had been drinking quite a bit," said Los Angeles police Officer J. Boyer.

Boyer said the man lost his balance and plunged several stories onto the steps of a moving lower-level escalator.

The man was not identified. He was taken to a hospital where he was declared dead from a head injury.

The Hollywood & Highland Center also holds the Kodak Theatre, where the Academy Awards are held.

SOURCE (http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/01/13/escalator.plunge.ap/index.html)

Stupid fucker.

Ouch.

Just thinning the herd.

too stupid to know how to stay alive? guess it wasnt to be.

too stupid to know how to stay alive? guess it wasnt to be.

too Stupid to know or too stupid to care????

Sometimes drunks get away with wild stuff like this (falling down stairs, flying out of car windsheilds etc) because their bodies are not tensed up. It's due to how much they've liquor they have imbibed that night. Apparently this poor S.O.B. missed the booze / impact physics margin for defying death.

I'll bet it was a mess where he landed. Not to be excessively morbid or callous (I've been dead drunk too but never died from it) fact is he's going to need some patching up for the wake, no doubt.

I think this is wonderful. That sounds shitty to some of you I am sure but what the hell do the rest of us stand to gain from this asshole. Social Darwinism at work.