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Old March 3rd, 2004, 12:49 AM
Tarla
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Default Air NZ crew heads home alone after LA suicide

On Tue, 02 Mar 2004 19:05:29 GMT, AKM wrote:

mtravelkay wrote:

15 years ago, while on a temp assignment in LA while working at IBM in
Austin. during the development of AIX/PS2 at Locus Software in the
Herbel Life building, I was staying at the Marriott LAX. One night a
bunch of us were coming back from dinner. In front of the hotel was a
body draped in a sheet. Apparently, someone jumped from the 14th floor,
presumably because there was no 13th floor.


If you correct for the American way of counting floors, would it be only
the 12th?

No, the 13th. They run from 1-12, skip 13, and start again at 14.

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