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In the Stands OSU Edition: Guy falling from upper deck

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Buddy called me and said his nieces were sitting in his seats and some guy fell from the upper deck onto the people seated behind them. Two were stretchered out.

Anyone see this?

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Edit: From posts below the guy was hurt, maybe badly
 
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We are on the east lower level and saw someone in the upper deck student section leaning way over and wondered if he might fall but never saw it happen.
 
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CyGuy5 said:
I just want to know how this even happens. Too drunk I assume but I guess it’s possible that’s not the reason why
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If someone stumbled I could see it happening. Haven't been in the upper deck in a long time but seem to remember not being that impressed with the railing at the bottom of the steps.
 
Happened in front of my parents who were sitting on the south end of the club, so can confirm it happened..

Definitely some times ive looked at the upper deck and seen people leaning over in ways that seemed unsafe before, but i dont think anyone had fallen over. Now that someone's actually fallen, wonder if they might have to make some changes up there.
 
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BoxsterCy said:
Buddy called me and said his nieces were sitting in his seats and some guy fell from the upper deck onto the people seated behind them. Two were stretchered out. Dumb ass wasn't. Apparently the people he fell on cushioned his fall.

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Yes it happened, but your account is incorrect. One lady was injured but walked herself to medical attention. The guy that fell was carried out on a stretcher.
 
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Check out wide right natty lite twitter account’s tweets about it. Had a little more detail in the replies. Sounded like it was good bystanders acted quickly or it could’ve been much worse.
 
Guy was in section V, closer to south end than north. Was in front row when he fell. Lots of police up there afterwards taking accounts and statements.
 
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alarson said:
Happened in front of my parents who were sitting on the south end of the club, so can confirm it happened..

Definitely some times ive looked at the upper deck and seen people leaning over in ways that seemed unsafe before, but i dont think anyone had fallen over. Now that someone's actually fallen, wonder if they might have to make some changes up there.
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Meh one drunk guy (probably, hopefully it wasn't a medical emergency of some type) in the 40+ yrs of the stadium. It sucks for him but it's hardly the stadiums fault. If you raise the railings your going to interfere with more peoples views. Accidents happen.
 
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NWICY said:
Meh one drunk guy (probably, hopefully it wasn't a medical emergency of some type) in the 40+ yrs of the stadium. It sucks for him but it's hardly the stadiums fault. If you raise the railings your going to interfere with more peoples views. Accidents happen.
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Eh, for 30 of those 40 years the stadium was sparse enough it might be considered less of an issue.

Seems like a liability issue. If its never happened before, easy to say 'how could we expect that'. Now that its happened, if it happens again it could be a decent-sized lawsuit especially if the person below is more seriously injured.
 
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Meh one drunk guy (probably, hopefully it wasn't a medical emergency of some type) in the 40+ yrs of the stadium. It sucks for him but it's hardly the stadiums fault. If you raise the railings your going to interfere with more peoples views. Accidents happen.
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Totally agree.... but just watch them have to install railings all along there to block everyone's view now because of one incident.

It's like that where I work. One incident happens, and you have to change everything to all but guarantee it won't ever happen again.
 
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Weird day, I drank way too much and am realizing I don’t remember much about today, I guess if there was a day to forget, today was the day. Sorry to those in section 12. I’m a moron.
 
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stateofmind said:
Weird day, I drank way too much and am realizing I don’t remember much about today, I guess if there was a day to forget, today was the day. Sorry to those in section 12. I’m a moron.
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When I was in school one game the stadium started to spin, I went home and slept that one off.
 
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NWICY said:
Meh one drunk guy (probably, hopefully it wasn't a medical emergency of some type) in the 40+ yrs of the stadium. It sucks for him but it's hardly the stadiums fault. If you raise the railings your going to interfere with more peoples views. Accidents happen.
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I want to say this isn’t the first time.
 
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