GIants Fan Falls To his Death
 

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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- A fan fell to his death from the elevated right-field wall at Pacific Bell Park on Wednesday night, shortly before the San Francisco Giants clinched the NL West title.

According to witnesses, the unidentified man attempted to climb down the outside of the outfield wall to retrieve something he dropped onto the walkway 24 feet below during the eighth inning. He slipped and fell, according to Giants vice president of communications Staci Slaughter.

Police and paramedics responded to the scene, but the fan died from his injuries, Slaughter said. San Francisco police didn't immediately phone calls seeking comment.

"As far as we're concerned, it was an accident," Slaughter said. "It's just a tragedy."

The incident is the first death at Pacific Bell Park since it opened in 2000. The right-field wall borders McCovey Cove, where well-hit homers land in the water.

The Giants and their fans were unaware of the accident as they celebrated their division title moments later.

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PARK DEATH VICTIM IDENTIFIED
SAN FRANCISCO(BCN)

The San Francisco Medical Examiner's Office this morning has identified the man who fell to his death during a San Francisco Giants baseball game at Pac Bell Park Wednesday night.

The Medical Examiner's Office identified the man as 35-year-old Todd Edward Adams. Adams was reportedly originally from Hawaii, but was more recently living in Santa Cruz.

Police say Adams dropped his sunglasses while walking along the arcade area during the bottom of the eighth inning Wednesday night. The glasses fell about 25 feet and a homeless man grabbed the glasses and yelled up to Adams that he would hold onto the glasses until Adams was able to get down to the port walk below to get them.

Police say Adams reportedly climbed over the hand railing and tried to jump onto a light fixture so he could jump down to the port walk below. Adams slipped and hit his head. He died at San Francisco General Hospital.

It's called natural selection.

Kitso
KS 361

Exactly.

Again with the "thoughts"..........

You beat me to it.

Darwinism at work.

one less californian.

hopefully he was a gray davis supporter.

and by the way, THIS is not a tragedy. A tragedy is a car wreck, i.e. a sober driver killed by a drunk driver, a plane crash, an unprovoked murder.

THOSE are tragedies. This is one idiot who probably watched too much Jackass and whom we're better off with not contaminating the gene pool.

Kitso
KS 361

Actually, it's called "This is why baseball stadiums shouldn't sell beer." :rolleyes:

THAT'S BS.

Hundreds of thousands of fans attend sporting events every year and are all able to consume alcohol without throwing themselves off of a ledge.

Just because this guy is an idiot doesn't mean the rest of us should have to suffer. Peddle your communism somewhere else.

Kitso
KS 361 cold ones i've enjoyed at Astros games and lived to tell the tale.

BAD KITSO!:o

Hell if he was sober, he would have been alright!:D Not just STUPID!

But when California becomes a Burb of Hawaii, OTW will help you all become normal!;)

Yo Kitso, no Hurrycanes in our part of the Country!:cool:

Don't try to tell me that you've never done anything that could have gotten you killed while drinking. I've done plenty of stupid drunk things that could have easily gotten me killed -- the difference between me and this guy is that I've always had enough good luck to escape that fate. I'm sure that if you drink enough, eventually you'll meet a similarly unfortunate end.

Everybody gets stupid when they drink. You're not an exception to that rule.

i know i'm not. But, i've always had the common sense to limit my consumption in public places. I'm sure that there are lots of Americans that, just like me, are perfectly capable of going to a baseball game, enjoying 2 or 3 beers, and being legally sober enough to get themselves home safely afterwards

More than this guy being drunk, he was an idiot. That's why he's dead. Noone forced him to consume any beer. If he drank too much and thought he was superman, it's his own damn fault, not the beer vendors. Just like tobacco. Noone forces you to smoke. If you smoke, you understand that there's a chance you could die, but Camel's not going around sneaking cigs into your mouth at night to secretly get you hooked.

Kitso
KS 361 days my life will probably be cut short by my drinking, but hey, they're the worst days right? the ones at the end :D

Messed up, but funny.

I highly doubt anyone (let alone ESP) outside this guy's family and friends will actually pray let alone "think" about this guy.

Optimist, where are you?

sorry to paint all of your breathern with a wide brush, but Texans dislike for Californians is well known(and vice versa)

and that's totally the quote that i thought would get people all riled up, not the other one.

Kitso
KS 361 times i can't even start a GC fight right

Lucky to be alive?:(

Hell yes I have the scars to prove it!

But, Dumb is as dumb does and oops you pay for it!:rolleyes:

If you have been to a many BaseBall games , it is boring for over priced cry babys.

Shit, what happend to the game.

"GIVE ME THE T-BONES OF KC Ks!"

When did Base Ball get so exciting:rolleyes:

I am sorry about someone losig their life, but shit, give is a break, the guy was Dumb!

Dont even think about chewin my ass out, I am a Lawnmower, you be da grass!

One must drink at sporting events as are boring! Except college!:D

lol kitso

1) I've been against Gray Davis ever since he was elected, and him contributing to me getting laid off by his budget cuts didn't help.

2) I was just re referencing that other comment. Nothing against you or anything.

For the beautiful women and the PERFECT weather and all the great beaches and other places to go here in SoCal, it's not all it's cracked up to be.

Ok, we're tight.

SO, i'll say next time that all of cali should fall into the ocean....except for Arnie and DeltaSigStan.

Kitso
KS 361 times that LA is evil

Oh, I'm sure there are plenty of GC-ers who will.

On the alcohol issue, the real reason I wish beer was banned from stadiums is this: my dad's a baseball fan so I've been to games from Boston to San Diego. At easily over half those stadiums, the game has been ruined by drunk guys in front, behind or next to me. Not to even get into how stupid you have to be to get drunk at a baseball stadium ($5 a beer times at least 6 or 7 beers, probably more, means you are one drunk, broke idiot), but these people just get incredibly rude. For some reason drunk baseball fans are the worst kinds of drunks, I swear, not to mention the worst kinds of baseball fans.

So if they put me in charge of things there would be no alcohol in the stadiums. But that's why they don't put me in charge of things -- considering that up here Miller Park probably makes more in beer sales than in ticket sales, the Brewers would be out of business in no time with a dry stadium.

I swear. Some of you guys are idiots. For real. :rolleyes:

if they put me in charge of a stadium, id prolly sell weed and x, and other good drugs.

who cares about the fans?!?

its all about the MONEY!!!

i'm an idiot because i think this jackass was a moron for trying to drop 25 feet to get his damn sunglasses? Musta been some pretty damn important sunglasses for him to do that, maybe they had gold coating on the outside like astronaut visors.

whatever.

and i posit that the worst kind of drunk fans are longwhorn or ITTech Red Raiders

KitSo 361