Darwin Award winner dies after sliding down third story banister at Brooklyn Museum

I know a guy who was in a coma after doing the same thing at Grand Central Station. He used to be hot. Not so much now.

Which firm was he with?

Well, he’s no longer woke.

I bet the victim was a DL’er. Fess Up!

Please don’t let him be OH BOY

There's a picture of the stairwell in the article. It's steep and the handrail is narrow. How could anyone think for a moment it would be safe.

I worked there, it is a beautiful Art Deco Machine Age stairwell, but as you can see there are little fins on it that would make sliding hard to do and it not like a long swoop.

Poor guy, a shameful way to die. Now if he had been on the bannister at the Met....

I don't buy it. Something isn't quite right about this story. The way the museum officials behaved... seems like something else happened.

Natural selection has no remorse

The family is whining— “They haven’t offered me condolences or anything. To not even get a call saying we’re sorry or anything, nothing…

No one at the museum has reached out to his mom or me."

What are the supposed to say? Sorry that your son was an idiot?

Here's another story about his death.

Banister. As in falling off the, to his horrible death?

[quote] but as you can see there are little fins on it that would make sliding hard to

Perhaps they felt good on his skin?

R9:

[quote]The way the museum officials behaved ...

... is exactly the way any institution worried about a lawsuit would behave.

This person was attending a function with alcohol.

Museums have good looking buildings and foolishly rent out their rooms for functions with alcohol.

R13, are you also R5?

R18 What's the problem?

[quote] Please don’t let him be OH BOY

I did a quick Google search of his name, and unfortunately one of the first results was an incredibly racist, right-wing page.

R7 Do you think Dawson bumped on the fins?

They must have a lot of security cameras in that place, so I'm betting there is video of the incident.

R20 You did a quick Google search of Kirkland Dawson's name?

[quote] You did a quick Google search of Kirkland Dawson's name?

Yes.

R11, I read that and thought, perhaps mother and sister weren't on his list of emergency contacts and didn't know who to reach? And if mama expects the museum to "say sorry," no chance, honey, that might be misconstrued as an admission of guilt.

[quote] R18 What's the problem?

No problem. I’m just wondering whether R13 and R5 are the same poster.

Once again, from the Stage Manager in OUR TOWN:

"All that education for nothing."

This is bizarre, there’s a female NYC attorney named Dawson Kirkland?

I'm guessing it was one of those evening "First Fridays" events with booze, so perhaps he was drunk.

R28 I saw that too! Weird.

Museums are NOT party venues!

R30, What?

I am not r5. I have him on my "Ignored" list, and so did not see his post.

After just now looking over his posts on other threads on my "Ignored" page, I have absolutely zero apologies to make to any of you for having him on my "Ignored" list.

He was cute and an ex-roommate was mentioned. hmmmm

Cue the lawsuit talk in 5..4..3..2..1 .

To die in such a foolish manner.

R33 Cute and very stupid.

Bannister 1, barrister 0.

Told you I was hardcore!

Smart people do stupid things unfortunately.

R14, I am not “a Eunice Burns,” I am THE Eunice Burns.

I'm not laughing.

[quote]but as you can see there are little fins on it that would make sliding hard to

Which are there obviously to keep idiots from trying to slide down them.

R7 I'd call them nodules more than fins.

"a trendy shindig" - yikes

This trendy shindig in this museum is as wrong as Spitting in the Af-Am Museum

Polyester pants and brass handrails don't mix.

Or grip.

What was on his iPhone 11 Pro with 3 cameras and last number redial?

[quote]Bannister 1, barrister 0.

I gave you a WW, even though I should've taken points off for your spelling.

Sad. He was cute.

All Millennials are drunks. They drink every day- several times a day.

Yet another black attorney who will not marry me.

R48, it's a legit alternative spelling:

r12 What are the supposed to say? Sorry that your son was an idiot?

"We're sorry we didn't keep him in restraints upon arrival, so he didn't harm himself..."

[quote] What was on his iPhone 11 Pro with 3 cameras and last number redial?

'59 Cadillacs have fins. Those are not fins.

Oy!

Probably trying to impress a trick.

One less lawyer in NYC! Hurrah!

Justice Ginsberg! Behave!

thoughts & prayers

He shouldn't have gone down head first. If had landed on his feet, from the third floor he would have broken bones but be alive.

Not everyone can land on their feet in life.

Who did this guy think he was?

Gary Coleman?

I think we can chalk this up to yet another case of black don't crack.

If only he could see his future he could have skipped all the stress of law school.

WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

How tragic. I assume he must have been drunk. Hope he was for his own sake. RIP

It doesn't seem normal to me that someone over the age of 30 would still be sliding down banisters in public buildings. Not too bright. Another example that any mentally challenged fool can go law school.

Barrister o’er the banister!

Ashes in the canister.

A cursory eyeball at that railing would show it doesn't tempt with any length of sliding pleasure - as there are fins every few feet and then right angles. Also, sheer drop to concrete. Even a drunken brain would recognize these impediments to carefree glee! This guy must be quite dumb.

Or, a different story - maybe he just fell over it.

Is his ghost going to haunt the stairwell day and night?

I'm sorry he's dead but damn, that really is an embarrassing way to go. When I saw the thread title I thought the subject would be a child or at least a stupid teenage boy goofing off in front of his friends, not a grown-ass man in his 30's with a law degree.

Was this promising young man, Kirkland, involved in this new initiative to make art transform the lives of young criminals and support social justice programs?

If so, this is a double-tragedy.

The Brooklyn Museum is home to one of the premiere collections of Egyptian Art. It’s obvious that an Ancient Egyptian curse player a part in this so called “accident.”

How many eyewitnesses say they saw him do this? Because the story makes no sense on its face. A thirtysomething lawyer suddenly decided to slide down a *very* dangerous-looking banister? Even with booze, it's hard to believe.

Was he a criminal lawyer? Because they often wind up making enemies.

I can picture this perfectly. First Saturday is a charged, exciting event with lots of interesting Brooklynites and a variety of music, dance, screenings and talks going on all at once. They serve alcohol in the lobby and the 3rd floor (where he fell from) or he was already coming from drinks or dinner. There's always a bit of a wait at all of the elevators so he and friends and maybe someone he was trying to impress decided to take the stairs. That staircase is rather beautiful and wide so the novelty of it. And it's out of the main flow enough so there'd be a break in visitors long enough to try something really stupid.

R77 he was drunk Rose

The fateful stairs

R33 he couldn’t have been family, no self-respecting gay man would have only hopped on the banister at anyplace other than the bottom of the stairwell.

Everytime I was in Washington DC, I had to hang on to the handrail and close my eyes on some of those loooong escalators going down into the subway. I can't sliding down a banister like that.

R63

[quote] He shouldn't have gone down head first.

I didn't find this in the story. Was it confirmed?

Thank goodness it wasn't Mike Branson.

I feel his pain.

On his iPod

He really should sue.

Stay close to the candles.

It must have been a hell of a splinter to have caused a death. Banisters need to be sanded and refinished once in a while.

This woman, holding his glass of Chardonnay before he fell off the banister says “We’re deeply saddened by this tragic accident, and our heartfelt thoughts are with Mr. Dawson’s family and friends"