Another rappel death article.

Here is a copy of the article….Darwin winner for sure…Osman lives! Ahhh, no he doesn’t. Ouch. Sad

“Thrill seeker” dies on crane at CU 22-year-old one of two men who scaled fence to swing from 10-story machine. The Boulder County man, who like his companion was not a student at the school, slammed into a building. By George Merritt Denver Post Staff Writer

Ryan Young, 22, was killed Tuesday while swinging from this construction crane on the University of Colorado campus in Boulder. (Special to The Denver Post / Kirk Speer)

Boulder – A Boulder County man was killed early Tuesday after he climbed a 10-story construction crane, swung from a rope and slammed into a nearby building.

Two men had scaled the security fence around a construction site at the University of Colorado campus about 3 a.m. Tuesday, with temperatures in the 20s and just hours after the area was hit with hurricane-force gusts.

The pair climbed atop the large construction crane, and went out to the tip of the arm and tied a rope to it, according to campus police.

“It appears they were looking for some thrill-seeking,” spokesman Lt. Tim McGraw said. “We don’t see a lot of this.”

Then, witnesses told police, the men began swinging from the crane. One man’s momentum carried him across 18th Street, where he crashed against the building that houses CU’s power station.

“On a big crane like that, they leave those loose, so it is basically like a big weather vane,” McGraw said. “It might have swung him around.”

Ryan Young, 22, of rural Boulder County was pronounced dead at the scene.

The two men were not CU students, and campus police are withholding the name and age of the other man. “We don’t know where we are going to go with the investigation right now,” McGraw said.

The crane sits in the middle of campus along 18th Street, where workers are building the future home of ATLAS, or Alliance for Technology, Learning and Society Institute.

Two witnesses called 911 at 3:13 a.m. An officer found Young dangling about 5 feet off the ground. The officer and a paramedic tried unsuccessfully to revive Young, McGraw said.

Young died from multiple blunt-force injuries, according to Boulder County Coroner Tom Faure. Faure said toxicology reports that would show whether alcohol was involved will not be available until next week.

“We are just so terribly disturbed by this tragedy,” CU spokeswoman Pauline Hale said. “And we can only imagine how this individual’s family and friends feel. Our hearts go out to them.”

Both McGraw and Hale said all the proper security measures appeared to be in place during the night. McGraw said the operator cabin, high up on the crane, was locked.

Still, Hale said the campus will make sure nothing more could have been done.

A sign on the fence in front of the site Tuesday said, “This project has worked 87 days without an accident.”

— In Yahoo Canyons Group, “~tanya” wrote:

~So sad! Learn a lesson everyone! Don’t do that.

Listening Ram? or is it Tom. Who is the ones that looses their keys?

I locked the key in my car, on New Year’s Day, A Saturday, after doing the Black Hole. A hassle, but no exposure 😉 R

— In Yahoo Canyons Group, scott patterson wrote:

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YIKES! Would you call this a Buildering accident or an Urbaneering accident. Sad either way. R