By John Q. Hosedrinker I was at graduation. I didn’t know anything about what happened until today. I think most people were in the same boat. The speech was so bizarre, it sounded like what I always imagined the opening pitch for a cult or a MLM would be. There is zero information in this article beyond what is in the headline. Not sure what’s worse: that someone fell and died and the ceremony continued like no big deal or that the guy giving the commencement speech was shilling for cryptocurrency. Chris Pan said he took Ayahuasca(psychedelic) to write the speech he gave.
Add that to the fact that they brought in a snake oil salesman to give the commencement speech. My friends who were there said “it would be very difficult to accidentally fall off from where they were. I remember hearing a story like a decade ago about a girl who had been lying to her parents about failing her last semester. She wasn’t going to graduate but couldn’t bring herself to tell them, so while standing in the crowd in her cap and gown, she ate some peanuts, even though she was highly allergic. Maybe she hoped the medics would get to her in time with an epi pen and her parents would be so distracted about her brush with death they wouldn’t ask about her diploma at the hospital.
Maybe she was just suicidal and wanted it to look like an accident. Either way, the medics couldn’t get through the crowd of students in time to save her. I live in Columbus but was not there at the ceremony. For anyone that has been to The Shoe knows how unbelievably steep the upper stands are. Not only that but it was raining a few hours prior to the ceremony. A lot of us here still don’t know what happened fully but my take is someone could have easily slipped and fell trying to take a picture.
Damn dude reading some of these comments is super depressing. More and more the morbid humor of anonymous strangers disappoints me. Currently going through shit and people can be so cruel at the expense of others. Does anyone else dislike how serious discussions on this platform devolve into juvenile banter? Was the person who died a graduating student or one of their guests? My 1st born son graduated yesterday. It was a fantastic ceremony. Well organized and completed. Yes, the speaker was a nut. I get the feeling he made a ton of money with crypto and so believes he’s a genius. Oh well. The person who jumped/fell landed about 20’ feet from my son who was lined up with others to enter the stadium. They scattered a bit and got out of order but composed themselves and reordered. I assumed it was a guy, but heard it was a woman, which for some reason saddens me more. We’re all struggling with something. For the young, with their whole future in the balance but not under control, it can be overwhelming. Whenever you interact with a teen or 20 something, let them know it gets better. As my dad used to say, “keep Sluggin” What a great news article. “a person fell. The end.” [removed] Was the person a graduating student, someone from the faculty, or someone else? My opinion is intentional jump.
It’s damn near impossible to accidentally fall over the back of that stadium. I’ve had seats at the very very very top, you never ever feel like you will fall over. The wall is pretty high. There’s a long history of jumpers at OSU. Typically from parking garages and it used to be from the towers dorms as well before they changed the windows. It’s sad, but OSU keeps things very quiet when it does happen so but rarely gets talked about. Isn’t it “THE” person? I graduated happily like 5 years ago. Knowing that some students were eagerly waiting, as I did for this moment, only to have so much chaos, preventing you from graduating and people getting hurt or even dying is pretty insane. Why are they holding graduating ceremonies for 12,555 at the stadium? They did something similar for my graduation ceremony. They held graduation ceremonies for all the schools in one giant arena. It was awful. The time waiting to receive your diploma while waiting as people you don’t know get theirs. It was so bad that they never did it again. All the schools at the university held their own graduation at smaller venues for just their school. The University’s president was fired soon afterwards.
T-Shirt cannon accident? does anyone have the video THE Ohio State University [“No footlongs!”](https://youtu.be/U6Rbs9mKDl8?si=QMXzl7wykZd3N2qh) I’m so going to hell for this, but it’s all I can think of! [deleted] “the” Ohio State graduation ceremony Has he been critical of Putin lately? [Footage of the incident](https://youtu.be/JnI30mIKW2k?t=56) Was the person Russian? Not everyone graduates with honors I suppose. God Damn The Pusher Man. Back in the ’70s when I went there they had a policy that if your roommate committed suicide you got As for the semester. It was not rare. They put up higher rails not long after. that’s also why you can’t go to the roof of Morril or Lincoln tower. And the windows don’t open. Another whistle blower … Let me guess. Boeing did it. Did anybody say “It’s all downhill from here”? [removed] Natural selection is a b*tch As you wiiiiiisssshhhh! It’s never the first 20 feet that’s the issue, it’s the last 6 inches into the ground 😂😂😂 I got suckered into two of those in my life. The first was for “cutco” in high school. Basically to be a traveling knife salesmen. They called it an interview but it was essentially a sales pitch. They told us we had to be smiling the whole time and those who weren’t were asked to leave (in a really rude way by the presenter) in the middle of it. I guess they were looking for “drink the Koolaid” type personalities.
OR the people who were asked to leave were plants, as I couldn’t imagine how I wasn’t asked to leave with how hard my eyes were rolling in the back of my head. The second time was when energy sales became privatized in Pennsylvania. A bunch of “marketing” companies popped up which were essentially pyramid sales schemes for people to convert their electric supplier. The marketing company was a completely separate entity than the energy supplier and in-front of a room of 200 people I asked them if that was the case so that they could fold the “marketing” company at any point to stop paying out the down-lines while keeping the energy contracts. After the presenter basically lied that that wasn’t the case, two large men quietly came up to me and told me to leave, basically at the threat of violence. Good times. Fuck MLM’s and pyramid schemes.
I have no clue what the speech was, but I am well aware of the connections xenos/dwell have in Columbus. For those that don’t know them, they are a high control group, what most people consider a cult. They are like an embedded tick in Columbus. They have enough sway to have the college and local officials to look the other way, basically what is publicly known in Columbus too. Even people that saw it happen are not at a consensus of why it happened. From Columbus. At this time, they have not released any additional information. I’m glad u wasn’t the only one thinking it. It went on to repeat the headline 2 times and then 1 more time in the picture text, then went into detail about building stadiums to host more seats lol. Thanks for saving a click, kind stranger. It’s literally all that’s been released to any news outlet. False, I learned that the stadium originally held 66,000 people, now holds over 100,000 and the university awarded 12,555 degrees.
Yes, there is! I now know how many people I held when it was built! Wow, props for trying to go past the headline. A Reddit first. Welcome to Reddit media, they don’t expect you to read anything more than a headline. All the actual journalists are in the comments. Journalism is at its peak.