Man Dies After Trying to Slide Down Escalator Rail in L.A. Mall

Sunday, January 13, 2008


Heavy drinking may have lead to a man's death at a shopping mall in Hollywood last night.

Authorities say the man was trying to slide down the banister of an escalator when he lost his balance and plunged several stories onto another escalator below.

He was declared dead at a hospital from a head injury.

Police quote his friends as saying the man "had been drinking quite a bit."

Police haven't released his name.

The mall is in the same complex that holds the Kodak Theatre, where the Academy Awards are held.


My thought is that he had tickets for the Academy Awards and killed himself rather than endure the torture of sitting through the show!

Either that or his kids made him take them to see "Alvin & The Chipmunks"...

(Sorry, that's just a little dig to our movie mogul's pick that is paying off hugely...grrr!)

Either that or he had just finished watching Brittney, Paris, Lindsay, Nichole TMZ special on FAUX 12!