China: Drunk Man Climbs Out His 30th-Floor Window to Show Off, Doesn’t Make It [NSFL]

A drunk man 30 floors up decides climbing out his own kitchen window is a solid plan, with someone’s phone already rolling on him. It only looks like a good idea for about as long as the drink lasts.

Video

It opens in a cramped laundry area, bottles and food containers scattered near the washing machine. A guy in a gray cap and a black Dickies hoodie is already wound up, yelling and waving his arms at whoever’s holding the phone. He storms past the fridge into the kitchen, where floor-to-ceiling windows look out over the city at dusk, a tulip sitting on the counter among the clutter.

He climbs onto the counter, then the windowsill, then he’s outside the frame completely, gripping the edges with the whole skyline behind him 30 floors down. The footage cuts straight to the courtyard below: a body lying motionless by the building’s steps, the camera panning down from the tower to confirm it. Showing off for one phone camera turned out to be the last thing he ever did.

What the Thread Said

Most people in the thread had the same read: drunk, dumb, gone, with “I can fly” becoming the running joke. A more skeptical crowd zeroed in on the mismatched sneakers and a building that looked different in the ground shots, arguing it was 2 separate clips spliced into one rather than a single fall.

Baijiu and High-Rises: Why This Looks So Normal in China

The guy teetering 30 floors up in this clip is dealing with two very normal things in China: sky-high apartment blocks and a drinking culture built on one-shot toasts.

• Baijiu runs about 50% alcohol, and “ganbei” toasts mean draining the glass in one go, not sipping it.
• Livestreamers have chugged 4 bottles of 42%-proof baijiu in one sitting just to rack up views.
• China’s suicide rate was 7.821 per 100,000 in 2012, below the global average of 9.901.
• That rate was near 23 per 100,000 back in 1995-99 and has since dropped to roughly 10.0.
• 30-story buildings turn up even in small cities because local governments fund themselves selling land-use rights.

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