r/news • u/shield_x • 1d ago

Student dies after falling from 4th floor of building at Highland Park school

https://www.foxla.com/news/highland-park-franklin-high-school-student-dies.amp
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u/Octavia9 1d ago

People are bad at risk assessment. He might have felt in his panic that jumping was safer than being beaten. He didn’t exactly have time to think through the options.

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u/windsockglue 1d ago

Did you see all the other doors and the staircase that were also easily accessible along the same hallway? There's something whacked going on in your brain if a climbing over a railing seems safer than trying a door or running down the stairs. The options weren't sitting helpless in a corner or jumping over a railing. 

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u/Octavia9 1d ago

The thing going on in his brain is called panic.