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Man dies after hanging upside down 270ft up Dixons Chimney in Carlisle for 14 hours

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WolfOfOdin · 29/10/2019 00:09

www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/uk-england-cumbria-50207301

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WolfOfOdin · 29/10/2019 00:10

Seems I dont know how to post links (sorry)

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FFSnotanotherone · 29/10/2019 00:14

I saw this. Desperately sad

Finfintytint · 29/10/2019 00:24

Very sad. Previous thread about this was deleted for being a bit voyeuristic and insensitive.

SilverOtter · 29/10/2019 00:31

It's terribly sad but.....I mean, HOW and WHY was he even up there?!

Finfintytint · 29/10/2019 00:32

I would imagine it was a botched suicide or a drunken miasadventure.

overnightangel · 29/10/2019 00:56

I was in Carlisle today and the voyeurism and rubber necking of the locals was shameful. As a native of the city I was ashamed, scumbag parents taking their kids and taking photos like it was a circus attraction , no respect for human life

Finfintytint · 29/10/2019 01:03

Very shameful.

kateandme · 29/10/2019 02:06

i didnt understand the hanging upside down bit?

overnightangel · 29/10/2019 09:08

“i didnt understand the hanging upside down bit?”

@kateandme it would appear he slipped and caught his leg between the ladder and the chimney stack and was basically hanging upside down

Sleepyblueocean · 29/10/2019 09:19

I wish the media would take down or at least completely blur out the photos of him. Very disrespectful considering the outcome.

diddl · 29/10/2019 09:32

If all of the ladders are still there, it's maybe a wonder that this hasn't happened before.

Perhaps not the tragic outcome, but someone getting stuck partway for example.

overnightangel · 29/10/2019 09:43

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Coldfeetinsummer · 29/10/2019 09:43

I hated the comments on social media along the lines of ‘leave him up there’, ‘why waste police resources when it’s his own fault’...

Absolutely zero empathy or compassion

Clearly things were not right with him either MH issues or some kind of crisis to climb the bloody chimney in the first place. To have died like that is awful. He must have been terrified for a long time before he died.

overnightangel · 29/10/2019 09:44

@Sleepyblueocean exactly

overnightangel · 29/10/2019 09:46

@Coldfeetinsummer I’m deliberately steering clear of social media for that very reason. I know this site you get berated for using the word “chav” but that’s what it was like around there, I drive a van for work and passed right by the site on my route, and had to take a few detours and people were flocking there, chavs with their kids laughing their heads off and gawping

Miaowing · 29/10/2019 09:48

I didnt know being upside down would cause someone to die......

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WolfOfOdin · 29/10/2019 09:48

Yes this is local to me, I did search to see if anything had been posted on here, didnt realise a thread had been deleted.

But yes, awful comments on social media yesterday and people standing watching with binoculars, people taking their kids to have a look. Awful

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WolfOfOdin · 29/10/2019 09:48

Well he was upside down for 14 hours....

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WolfOfOdin · 29/10/2019 09:50

With no top on in sub zero temperatures.....

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OkayGoooouuuuuullllll · 29/10/2019 09:51

And probably bloody terrified ! I think my heart would give up if I was hung upside down in the cold and being scared to death

Coldfeetinsummer · 29/10/2019 09:51

Me too angel

It’s so goulish and disrespectful.

it was so clear v early on that he was not conscious/ likely dead. Why on earth would you go to have a look, let alone take your kids?! Mind boggling. I worry about how those kids process the fact they’ve seen a dead body.

Notverygrownup · 29/10/2019 09:52

Utterly horrific. That poor man. I'm glad that the thread from yesterday was deleted, people didn't realise at first, I think, what a serious incident this was.

I just hope that he couldn't see the family gatherings below and people laughing at him.

Morgan12 · 29/10/2019 09:55

There are so many truly horrible people in this world.

There was a young girl in my town who committed suicide by jumping from a block of flats. A crowd gathered whilst she was up there, filming her and shouting 'jump jump jump'.

There are just no words for these people.

That poor poor man.

Wheat2Harvest · 29/10/2019 10:10

I'm going to rouse the elephant in the room and say that if he hadn't climbed it in the first place none of the subsequent events would have happened. The emergency services did a sterling job under difficult and unusual conditions and are now being criticised by some for 'taking so long'.

Human nature is such that had he survived he would be being pilloried on social media for the risk to which emergency services personnel were exposed, the cost of the whole operation and the inconvenience that the road closures caused.

Because the outcome was that he didn't survive, social media has erupted with outpourings of sympathy and the usual emojis.

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WolfOfOdin · 29/10/2019 10:13

There is a service ladder which goes right up the side of Dixons chimney, however there are no rungs at the bottom, they don't start til around 10ft up. However, there has seemingly been work going on at the chimney and it looks like a ladder may have been left there, giving him access.

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