{"id":1349,"date":"2010-11-01T20:15:37","date_gmt":"2010-11-02T02:15:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asylumeclectica.com\/grim\/?p=1349"},"modified":"2019-01-05T14:07:46","modified_gmt":"2019-01-05T20:07:46","slug":"morbid-fact-du-jour-for-november-1-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=1349","title":{"rendered":"Morbid Fact Du Jour For November 1, 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today’s Playful Yet Truly Morbid Fact!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Megan Duskey was looking forward to a Halloween night out in Chicago with some of her best friends. The Chicago schoolteacher and a group of girlfriends she had known most of her life had scored tickets to a sold-out Haunted Hotel Ball at the Palmer House Hilton, and Duskey was going as glamorous superhero Silk Spectre from the movie “Watchmen.” Duskey, 23, and her friends were there half an hour on Saturday night (October 30, 2010) when she playfully attempted to slide down a banister rail and fell four stories to her death. “We had just gotten there,” said Ellie Pessetto, a friend of Duskey’s from childhood who had stepped away from the stairwell moments before Duskey fell. When Pessetto returned to the stairs, she saw two of her friends crumpled to the floor, in hysterics. “I couldn’t even understand what they were saying,” Pessetto said. “Then someone said (Megan) fell.” A cousin of Duskey’s had raced down the stairs and was holding Duskey’s body when firefighters arrived, Pessetto said. Later, they noticed a mark on the cousin’s arm where firefighters had had to pull her away from Duskey. “(The cousin) just said, ‘She’s gone.’ She knew she was gone,” Pessetto said. The medical examiner said Duskey died instantly of head trauma. Alcohol was not a factor in the accident.<\/p>\n

Culled from: The Chicago Tribune<\/p>\n

The moral of this story, kids: Sliding on banister rails is never a good idea, but it is especially ill-conceived when a loss of balance results in plunging four stories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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