Man Dies After Jumping From Eiffel TowerAP via Yahoo! News @ 8:59a.m. May 17
PARIS - A Norwegian man who leaped off the Eiffel Tower in a publicity stunt was killed after his parachute got stuck on an upper deck of the monument and came off, officials said Tuesday.
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Hundreds of people have died at the tower, which is 1,063 feet tall with its flagpole, since it opened as a star attraction of the 1889 World's Fair.
Most of the deaths were suicides. The first reportedly was that of a printer's mechanic, who hanged himself from the tower's north pillar in 1891, bequeathing his clothes to builder Gustave Eiffel in his will.
I didn't know there were that many people who fell from the tower. I've been there several times in my life but I didn't notice anything too freaky. Oh, yeah. I sometimes (Not that frequent like Alison in Medium. ) see dead people whether you believe it or not. I guess I will pay an extra attention when I go there next time. If I really focus, I might be able to see one or two. This is the photo (Not that great quality...) of the tower taken when I went to Paris last February. Come to think of the tower, I have never climbed up there.... I have never climbed up Space Needle, either... Luckily, I have climbed up the Tokyo Tower a couple of times. :-)
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