We had a student here die in her bed in halls
She was discovered when her parents phoned the Uni to say she wasn't answering her phone. MAde a change from previous years where we lost students because they jumped off the harbour wall when the tide was out.
( Peej, Mon 4 Jan 2016, 10:21, 2 replies, latest was 10 years ago)

Our future leaders.

(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Mon 4 Jan 2016, 10:35, Reply)

Some of my friends worked for the facilities team at halls.
Apparently someone pegs it in their room nearly every year, it's usually cleaned up quite quietly.
( Slippery Mick ‏, Mon 4 Jan 2016, 10:36, Reply)

Also someone recently tried to top themselves off Union St bridge but it's only about 3 stories high so they just bost their legs.

( Slippery Mick ‏, Mon 4 Jan 2016, 10:38, Reply)

Bostin'!

(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Mon 4 Jan 2016, 10:39, Reply)

The student tradition here is the go to the harbour wall, strip naked and jump in to the sea.
Every single year someone jumps without checking if the tide is in and breaks one or both legs. One year a lass broke her thigh and bone marrow got in her bloodstream. This killed her.
( Peej, Mon 4 Jan 2016, 10:40, Reply)

What Ben Hardwick wouldn't have given for that!

(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Mon 4 Jan 2016, 10:41, Reply)

Lol!

( Peej, Mon 4 Jan 2016, 10:42, Reply)

Hang on! That doesn't work!

( Peej, Mon 4 Jan 2016, 10:42, Reply)

No not really. But bone marrow does support the production of lymphocytes that are the immune system.
That then reject transplanted livers.
(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Mon 4 Jan 2016, 10:46, Reply)

Nah, still don't work.

(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Mon 4 Jan 2016, 10:47, Reply)

There's a similar one here involving the Bridge of Don.
I also went to University with a seemingly not very good geology student who broke bones injuring himself falling off some rocks believing there to be gold up there. He was on the local news.
( Slippery Mick ‏, Mon 4 Jan 2016, 10:47, Reply)

Yup, never makes the news
We only find out because the generic "counselling is available for those that need it" email that goes around.
( Peej, Mon 4 Jan 2016, 10:38, Reply)

Yeah most deaths don't get reported on the news

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Mon 4 Jan 2016, 10:57, Reply)

In sleepy old Cornwall most unusual, unexpected or non natural causes deaths make the local news for one reason or another

( Peej, Mon 4 Jan 2016, 11:38, Reply)

And yet some bloke getting bitten by his dog gets on the front page, what a world eh

( drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Mon 4 Jan 2016, 12:09, Reply)