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Three dead after dog falls 13 floors (1988) (nla.gov.au)
10 points by tomas789 on March 28, 2023 | hide | past | favorite | 16 comments



(1988), not 1899


I wonder if the average building even was 13 floors tall in 1899, particularly in South America which didn't have its "tall buildings boom" much later.


:/


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A bit lacking in detail.

The third man died of a heart attack? And the other two presumably were killed because the dog fell on them?

Edit: To people responding.

The only text visible for me in the mobile version of the page is:

> Three dead

> after dog

> falls 13 floors

> BUENOS AIRES: A dog which fell from a 13th-floor

> balcony on Friday night triggered three deaths in a row in

> central Buenos Aires.

> An unidentified man who saw both incidents suffered

> a heart-attack and died in the ambulance on his way to hospital.

> It was not immediately clear why Cachi fell.

> Papers in the Argentinian capital, some of which put

> the story on their front pages, said repairs had recently

> been made at the 13th-floor balcony of the Montoya family, owners of the dog.

> "We are all extremely sad, we cannot understand how

> all this could happen. Just imagine how the Montoyas

> feel about it," a neighbour told the Clarin newspaper.

> - Reuter

Super confusing and super badly formatted.


Missing context the ocr didn’t catch :

The dog, a poodle named Cachi, hit 75-year-old Marta Espina on her head and both the woman and the dog died instantly. Edith Sola, 46, died on the spot when knocked down by a bus while standing in the middle of the street at the edge of a crowd that had gathered to watch the scene.

An unidentified man who saw both incidents suffered a heart-attack and died in the ambulance on his way 10 hospital.

It was not immediately clear why Cachi fell. Papers in the Argentinian capital, some of which put the story on their front pages, said repairs had recently been made at the 13th-floor balcony of the Montoya family, owners of the dog.


The dog hit one woman which died instantly from the hit.

Another women got hit by a bus while watching the whole spectacle, died instantly.

A man who saw both the dog falling on the woman, and the woman getting hit by a bus, had a heart attack (I guess because of what he just witnessed) and died in the ambulance.

Not sure what details are missing exactly?


> Not sure what details are missing exactly?

See my edit. Basically, all of the text you quoted is straight up missing from the mobile version of the page.


First woman killed by dog falling on her. Second woman killed by bus while gawking at first death with gathered crowd. Third man dies of a heart attack after witnessing both events.


The details are all there.

One of them died by dog hit.

The other one gathered around the dead, and died by a bus hit.

A third one by a heart attack while watching the scene.

(And the fourth victim is the dog)


> The details are all there.

See my edit. Most of the text is missing from the mobile version of the page.


Fair enough


The second "...died on the spot when knocked down by a bus while standing in the middle of the street at the edge of a crowd that gathered to watch the scene."


That part is missing from the mobile version of the linked page for some reason.

Presumably from the text you quoted it even means that a possibly large portion of the text is just all-together missing in mobile view.

Updated my original comment with what I see.


That's some cursed setting.


Technically, 4 dead.

Unless the dog didn’t die?




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