Ally_Kat
02-24-2006, 02:32 AM
Guitar teen's window fall
22/02/06 | SUN ONLINE REPORTER
A TEENAGER bounced off his bed and out of a third-floor window to his death during a wild impression of a rock guitarist.
Excited Li Xiao Meng was jumping around with his guitar in the bedroom of a Singapore students' hostel when he made the fatal mistake.
The 16-year-old business student, from China, was "hyped up with exhilaration" when he rebounded off the bed and out of the window, coroner Tan Boon Heng told the Straits Times newspaper.
“He was jumping up and down on the bed placed against an open window while imitating a rock guitarist,” Mr Tan said.
Li often met with his friends in one of their rooms, where they smoked, sang and played guitar.
The boys apparently kept the window open because they liked to smoke, even though it was banned by the hostel.
Mr Tan urged authorities to improve safety at the dormitory, saying the room’s window latch had been tampered with.
Li’s father, Li Zhong Yuan, 58, expressed sorrow over what happened to his only child.
“Now he’s gone and at my age, I don’t think I can have another child,” he said.
22/02/06 | SUN ONLINE REPORTER
A TEENAGER bounced off his bed and out of a third-floor window to his death during a wild impression of a rock guitarist.
Excited Li Xiao Meng was jumping around with his guitar in the bedroom of a Singapore students' hostel when he made the fatal mistake.
The 16-year-old business student, from China, was "hyped up with exhilaration" when he rebounded off the bed and out of the window, coroner Tan Boon Heng told the Straits Times newspaper.
“He was jumping up and down on the bed placed against an open window while imitating a rock guitarist,” Mr Tan said.
Li often met with his friends in one of their rooms, where they smoked, sang and played guitar.
The boys apparently kept the window open because they liked to smoke, even though it was banned by the hostel.
Mr Tan urged authorities to improve safety at the dormitory, saying the room’s window latch had been tampered with.
Li’s father, Li Zhong Yuan, 58, expressed sorrow over what happened to his only child.
“Now he’s gone and at my age, I don’t think I can have another child,” he said.