The Cellar - Nov 16th, 2019 : Look Who Dropped In

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xoxoxoBruce

11-15-2019 11:00 PM

Nov 16th, 2019 : Look Who Dropped In

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Clapham Common in London is a tranquil and comfortable-looking place. There are plenty of smart-looking Victorian terrace houses
bordering sleepy, tree-lined streets.
It was sunny and warm on 30 June as residents in south London finished their lunch and unwound on a leisurely Sunday afternoon.
One tenant in Offerton Road was busy reading on a lounger in the garden when the ground shook with a terrifying thud.

http://cellar.org/img/fall1.jpg

Paul Manyasi from Kenya had dropped in.

http://cellar.org/img/fall2.jpg

When the landing gear lowered...

http://cellar.org/img/fall3.jpg

But he was dead long before they got to England.
Why would he take such a foolhardy risk?

http://cellar.org/img/fall4.jpg

And an insecure cleaning job at the airport making £2.25 ($2.90) a day.

But the Brits had no way of knowing who he was, and it took Sky News a long time to find out.

Gravdigr

11-16-2019 09:51 AM

Well...

He made his mark.

Carruthers

11-16-2019 12:16 PM

Sadly, similar incidents have occurred a number of times in the last few years.

In 2015 a stowaway fell from a British Airways aircraft and landed on the roof of a building in Richmond, west London.
He was discovered a short while after another man was found alive, but in a critical condition, in the undercarriage bay of an aircraft at Heathrow.

Link

In September 2012 another poor soul fell in similar circumstances into a street in East Sheen a couple of miles from the Richmond incident.

Link

Undertoad

11-16-2019 01:27 PM

People are dying to get in to Britain!

Gravdigr

11-16-2019 01:57 PM

:drummer:

sexobon

11-16-2019 03:05 PM

10/10

He stuck the landing.

(at least no one said he bounced)

Gravdigr

11-17-2019 03:32 PM

He came to America to make something of himself.

Does a mess count?

sexobon

11-17-2019 03:41 PM

:confused:

Gravdigr

11-17-2019 09:03 PM

If he fell from 3500 ft, he made a mess, of himself.

Maybe he landed neatly.

In England. Pardon, spoke outta my ass for moment.:lol2:

glatt

11-18-2019 08:30 AM

His body was probably frozen solid, or close to it. It's kind of morbid to think about, but I wonder how frozen flesh behaves in a high speed impact. The height probably doesn't matter one you get over a few hundred feet. A tumbling solid object will reach a terminal velocity of probably less than 200MPH. Did he splatter or mostly stay in one piece?

xoxoxoBruce

11-18-2019 08:32 AM

They said he looked like he was frozen. I'd interpret that to non-splatter.

Luce	11-18-2019 08:37 AM

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Originally Posted by glatt (Post 1041742)

120 MPH if he wasn't in a stable vertical configuration. It is entirely possible that he was frozen right through, or close to right through, given the length of the flight (given that he was probably dead within the first 30 minutes) and the temperature.

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