16-year-old boy dies after fall from window at Ehime school
EHIME —
A 16-year-old student died after falling from a window at Teikyo No. 5 High School in Ozu City around 10:15 a.m. on Tuesday, police said. The boy was rushed to hospital with severe head injuries but died Tuesday night.
According to police, the boy fell from the window at a stairwell landing between the third and fourth floors. The boy apparently jumped over the railing in front of the window. The incident occurred during class, but the boy had reportedly told his teacher he felt feverish and wanted to go see the school nurse.
(Headline correction - with thanks to ‘fatboysosa’)
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saborichan
If someone else can link more details from other news stories, let us know!
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fatboysosa
Ozu is in Ehime, not Aichi.
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kirakira25
I would suggest drugs if this wasn't Japan(!) But as it is, possible delirium??! It gets so frigging hot in those classrooms anyway.
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knackerz
According to police, the boy fell from the window at a stairwell landing between the third and fourth floors. >
Well? did he fall from a stairwell window or a classroom window?
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Disillusioned
Did he fall or jump? The story states both.
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OneForAll
Why do they have windows like this in the schools? No sense of safety. Like that Mom walking ahead of her 2yo and the 2yo got run over by a car. Just incredible. I would sue the school, if such a thing existed. If people could sue in Japan, a lot of dangerous unsafe areas would disappear.
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Den Den
Maybe pushed?
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Fadamor
We had schools like that when I was young. Almost no air conditioning so you opened the windows to get a little airflow. They were reluctant to bar the windows because of escape concerns during a fire (the building was only 2-story).
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Icewind007
Yeah... windows are a threat to society!... Ban all windows!
Back then, windows had the purpose of cooling places like this down when there was no AC and to provide some light at day. I don't recall people falling out of windows left and right and the danger was rightfully considered negligible. This person would have had to be leaning out/sitting on the window to fall out. You can't exactly simply fall out a window.
Also I am glad that suing can only go so far. In too many places, ill placed blame has turned suing into a lawyer's playground and a business for finger pointers. I don't know the whole story, but it sounds like the boy was to blame, not the windows nor the school. Seriously, with the amount of things a teenager can do to themselves in school, there's nothing practical the school can do to make it idiot proof short of padded walls and strap jackets for all.
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timorborder
Tamiflu? Don't know if he was taking anything for fever or not, however, Tamiflu was labeled last year as being somewhat problematic for juveniles by the Japanese Ministry of Health (don't know the science they are basing this on). According to what I heard, this drug can cause people to birdman from high places.
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ratpack
why do you mention classroom window in the headline when the story clearly states a window between landings??
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dracpoo2
wakarimasen. Too many details left out.
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griff
there were a number of cases reported in the news. it seemed clear to me that adolescents shouldn't be using it, especially considering the flu is not dangerous in this age group
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