The rain that added to the sense of doom here late Monday night was gone and so were the curious onlookers. The concourse at Section 413 of Turner Field where Ronald Homer fell 65 feet to his death was nearly deserted except for a few scattered fans walking to the concession stand or bathrooms.
And why was he up there?
“He went up there to smoke a cigarette,” said his father, Ronald Homer, Sr.
Its not a dome, the stadium is outside, yet he needed to go up to an unsafe area to smoke. IF IT SAVES JUST ONE LIFE!!111!
“He was 6-foot-6, 6-foot-7, and those railings where he was are not tall enough; they are not tall enough for being that high up and that dangerous.
“This is not going to be the end of this. They need to fix that. That’s a flaw in engineering. No one should go through what his mother and I are going through right now.”
The railings are 42 inches high and they meet the code of the National Fire Protection Association Life Safety Code Standard 101, which is a commonly used set of strategies to protect people.
I won’t comment on what he was doing, but I find it unbelievable that railings anything UNDER 8 feet will protect EVERYBODY from such a fall if they act properly around them.
Still not a “Gun Death” so nothing to see here.
H/T Wallphone
