Where is the line drawn between coincidence and purposefulness? It is certainly a topic in which many heated debates will stem from. Just yesterday, August 30th, a man was killed after plummeting 35 feet to his death at the Georgia Dome while watching a college football game. Of course, such an event is tragic, but the coincidence is certainly one that has to bring foul play to mind. Just ONE day earlier, a fan watching a pre-season NFL game at Reliant Stadium in Houston fell 60 feet off of an escalator, killing himself as well.
Such deaths from falling at sports venues happen so infrequently, it's extremely suspicious that two instances would happen in consecutive days. This being said, I cannot help but think that sick, opportune people used the freak nature of such deaths to pull off murder. Whether murder can or will be proven in the mentioned cases, a seed of doubt has been planted in my mind to say the least. I hate to think that after seeing the death of an individual from falling at a sports venue a day previous, led another man to die, the same way, just one day afterwards by way of another intentionally pushing him. Such a death would be extremely easy to cover up, saying the dead individual simply slipped over the railing, where the perpetrator had actually pushed him. It's a sobering thought to ponder, knowing that deaths that appear coincidental and freak, could really just be a devious cover-up; performed by a individual trying to pull of a murder and make it seem like an accident. Although this may not be accurate in either instance, the freak nature of these accidents, happening in such rapid succession, makes the deaths seem extraordinarily unusual. What do you think about uncommon occurrences taking place in eerie succession?
I agree that "foul play" should always be considered, but I feel like you may be forgetting one important factor. At many sporting events, alcohol is usually the cause of fights, arguments or stupid acts. At the least in the case of the death at the Georgia Dome, before the man fell, it has been found out that he had been drrinking alcohol. Obviously alcohol impairs judgement. For me, it's hard to be able to think that it would be possible to get away with murder while 45,000 fans are around you.
ReplyDeleteOf course, alcohol can be taken into account. After an autopsy, the coroner will obviously get the results back of having alcohol in the victims system, which leads a chain of relation to their falling death because of impaired judgement. This I feel can provide more of a motive for the killer. Pushing someone off of an edge at a stadium can easily be disguised, even something as simple as the body position of the killer in relation to the others around the incident can disguise the murder as an "accident". In conclusion, for the killer to know the victim to be has alcohol in their system creates an extremely believable scapegoat, to cover up a devious murder plot.
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