Post by CarolinaCutie on Jul 16, 2003 12:36:56 GMT -4
Man Dies Rolling Off Roof in His Sleep
BERLIN (Reuters) - The heatwave sweeping Germany claimed an unlikely victim when a man sleeping on a roof to escape the high temperatures rolled off, suffering fatal injuries, Berlin police said Wednesday.
A tenant of the building found the 28-year-old still alive after his 70-foot fall, but he later died in hospital. The man had bedded down with two friends as temperatures neared 30 degrees Celsius (86 Fahrenheit) in the German capital.
The friends only learned of the man's fate after being awakened and informed by police.
"The man must have ended up on the steep part of the roof and fallen off," said Berlin police in a statement. His sleeping bag remained hanging off the gutter of the tiled roof.
--Yahoo News
Oh Jesus!
::stiflin' laughter:: I always thought heat rose, so why did this man and his friends choose to sleep on the roof?! 
What happened to placing an electric fan in the window or one of those stand up fans that rotate in the room that he could've slept in? I mean, that's what I used last year when my air conditioning system was struck by lightning until the maintenance man came out to fix it. There was no way in this world I was gonna sleep on my roof! ::stiflin' more laughter:: But ummmm, anyway...that must've been some wake-up call for him! 
BERLIN (Reuters) - The heatwave sweeping Germany claimed an unlikely victim when a man sleeping on a roof to escape the high temperatures rolled off, suffering fatal injuries, Berlin police said Wednesday.
A tenant of the building found the 28-year-old still alive after his 70-foot fall, but he later died in hospital. The man had bedded down with two friends as temperatures neared 30 degrees Celsius (86 Fahrenheit) in the German capital.
The friends only learned of the man's fate after being awakened and informed by police.
"The man must have ended up on the steep part of the roof and fallen off," said Berlin police in a statement. His sleeping bag remained hanging off the gutter of the tiled roof.
--Yahoo News
Oh Jesus!
::stiflin' laughter:: I always thought heat rose, so why did this man and his friends choose to sleep on the roof?! 
What happened to placing an electric fan in the window or one of those stand up fans that rotate in the room that he could've slept in? I mean, that's what I used last year when my air conditioning system was struck by lightning until the maintenance man came out to fix it. There was no way in this world I was gonna sleep on my roof! ::stiflin' more laughter:: But ummmm, anyway...that must've been some wake-up call for him! 
