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[–] [email protected] 30 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Defenestration
Notable autodefenestrations:

On July 9, 1993, the prominent Toronto attorney Garry Hoy fell from a 24th story window in an attempt to demonstrate to a group of new legal interns that the windows of the city's Toronto-Dominion Centre were unbreakable. He performed the same stunt on several previous occasions – dramatically slamming his body against the window – but this time it popped out of its frame and he fell to his death. The accident was commemorated by a 1996 Darwin Award and has been re-enacted in several films and television shows.

[–] kaputt 3 points 8 months ago

That's a very aleatoric autodefenestration.