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A game of “trust” took a deadly turn for an Australian diplomat, who plunged to his death from his Manhattan balcony early Wednesday during a night of boozing with friends and his wife, police sources said.

Julian Simpson, 30, fell from the seventh floor to a second-floor landing at the Clinton Street building where he lived on the Lower East Side around 1:35 a.m., the sources said.

Simpson was playing a “trust game” with a male pal when he accidentally took the fatal fall, a source said.

“I will prove it that you can trust me. Let’s play the trust game,” Simpson said to the 24-year-old man just moments before he slipped and fell, sources said.

https://nypost.com/2017/11/15/un-diploma...rong-cops/

TL;DR - A subset of Australians overseas, whether in Thailand or in NYC, are notorious for their stupidity. Not to mention liberal Australians who think that Facebook-style feelz translate into the real world, where laws like gravity apply.

I know we have all done silly things when drunk, but this takes the cake. This is a diplomat who was meant to represent Australian interests internationally at the UN. I have been half-dead at Berlin or Paris or Rome subway stations and still know to avoid oncoming trains or heights. Being drunk is about 20% of this man's death.

I feel sorry for the family, yet this is just spectacularly moronic.