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Daredevil falls to his death from 62-story building
Unfortunately, social media cultivated the viral video/famous for anything culture and this story reveals the dangers of #doitforthevine.
A daredevil plummeted to his death during a risky stunt near the top of a 62-story building in China, according to new reports.
Wu Yongning, 26, who called himself “China’s First Rooftopper,” plunged from the Huayuan International Centre in Changsha, the capital of Hunan province in central China, on Nov. 8, AsiaWire reported.
A month later, Yongning’s girlfriend and family members confirmed his death.
A viral video clip, which racked up more than 15 million views on Chinese social media, shows Yongning — who had already reached the roof of the skyscraper — lowering himself over the edge of the building to do a pull-up stunt. But when he tried to hoist himself back up, he struggled for a few moments before losing his grip and plummeting down the side of the building.
The camera phone that he had set up to record the stunt quickly lost sight of him.
Authorities describe the fatal fall as an accident and have ruled out foul play, according to the report. Police believe he plunged about 45 feet onto a terrace and died of his injuries either during or right after the plunge.
His girlfriend, identified only as “Jinjin,” told the outlet that she believes Yongning took an elevator “over 40 floors” and began his climb “nearly 20 more floors” until he reached the spot where he filmed.
The building is only open to the public until the 44th floor — beyond that, key cards are needed to access the Grand Hyatt Hotel, according to the report.
Yongning would have received 100,000 yuan — about $15,000 — for the stunt, his family told the Xiaoxiang Morning Herald. It is unclear who was offering that prize.
“He planned to propose to his girlfriend [the day after the challenge],” Yongning’s stepuncle Feng Shengliang told the South China Morning Post. “He needed the money for the wedding, and for medical treatment for his ailing mother.”
One friend commended Yongning’s selflessness in a post on the Chinese social media site Weibo.
“You are one of those people in this world, you will do anything for your loved ones, absolutely anything,” the user wrote, according to the BBC.
But others criticized him for the reckless act.
“Why would you seek attention in such a dangerous way, just for your fans?” another person posted.
Yongning was known for scaling skyscrapers without any safety equipment — just his own “martial arts training and careful planning,” one of his Weibo posts said, according to the outlet. He shared nearly 300 videos of his death-defying acts.
Article via: https://nypost.com/2017/12/11/daredevil-falls-to-his-death-from-62-story-building/
FL Nursing home worker posted residents sex videos online
A nursing home employee in Florida was caught secretly recording a pair of seniors having sex — and posting the footage to Snapchat, cops said.
Alexis Williams, 20, is accused of filming an 81-year-old woman and a 59-year-old man doing the deed inside a private room at the Bristol Court Assisted Living Facility in St. Petersburg last August, according to Bay News 9.
The Pinellas County woman was arrested Wednesday after being done in by a tipster, who spotted the video and alerted staff.
The couple apparently had no idea they were being filmed by Williams, who denies everything.
“I asked them, ‘Where’s their proof?’ and I won’t say nothing else until they give me proof,” she told Bay News after being released from custody Wednesday.
But investigators insisted that they had more than enough evidence to charge Williams with video voyeurism — including a confession, surveillance video of her in the act and records provided by Snapchat, itself.
“I think it’s deplorable,” said Helen King with the Area Agency on Aging, a private non-profit agency serving seniors and their caregivers in the area.
“I wouldn’t want it to be someone from my own family at that assisted-living when that happened,” she told CBS Miami. “I hate the fact that she’s already out of jail that quick.”
Bristol Court has since fired Williams and the sheriff’s office has also been reportedly probing whether to shut down the facility, as well.
State records obtained by the outlet show that the nursing home has shelled out more than $6,000 in fines improperly trained staff, workers forgetting to give residents medications and lying on their medical charts.
“You just have to be very, very careful because it’s the life of an older person that you’re placing into here,” King explained. “You want to trust that the people that hire them knew what they were doing and did all the things they should be doing.”
via: http://nypost.com/2017/03/23/nursing-home-worker-posted-senior-sex-videos-to-snapchat/