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| Brit UN nuclear expert may have been murdered |
| 2009-10-22 |
| A British nuclear energy expert who plunged 40 metres to his death at the United Nations' (UN) building in Vienna may have been murdered, police said today (Thurs). Wait! Wait! I seen this movie! Timothy Hampton died on the spot on Tuesday after falling from a 17th floor window at the Vienna International Centre (VIC) - one of the UN's three headquarters. The UN confirmed the death of the 47-year-old -- who was involved in disarmament negotiations with Iran as a member of the UN's Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO) -- but refused to give any further information on the circumstances of the fatality. Guess those negotiations are getting a bit.....difficult A police spokesman told the Austrian Times today that investigators had not ruled out murder as no suicide note has been found. "Whenever there is a case where others may have been involved we will investigate all the possible scenarios. Murder is one possibility, suicide another," the spokesman said. He added investigators were waiting for the result of an autopsy. "Tell me Dr. Quincy, what would you say is the cause of death?" "Gravity." UN staff told the Austrian Times yesterday that there had been a similar case just recently in which an employee died when he fell from a similar height at the landmark buildings in Vienna-Donaustadt. "Happens all the time, nothing to see here, move along." Where's OHSA when you really need them? |
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| #6 I'm just amazed the windows open on a skyscraper. |
| Posted by: gromky 2009-10-22 23:20 |
| #5 I thought this sort of thing only happened in Prague. |
| Posted by: Eric Jablow 2009-10-22 22:24 |
| #4 It is of course not illegal to throw someone out of a window on the designated territory of the United Nations, because the UN has no laws on this or any other matter. So I don't see what all the fuss is about. |
| Posted by: phil_b 2009-10-22 19:25 |
| #3 Shades of the late David Kelly from the United Nations Special Commission. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2009-10-22 18:47 |
| #2 Somebody call Brad Thor. He's got a new script. |
| Posted by: Maggie Ebbuter2991 2009-10-22 18:10 |
| #1 Didn't something similar happen to somebody's mother in Cyprus a few years ago, tied into an unrelated UN corruption scandal? Is it possible that there's just some politically unmotivated UN-employed serial killer with a predilection for defenestration? |
| Posted by: Mitch H. 2009-10-22 17:32 |