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This liminal space could KILL YOU - MrBallen · Crime and Horror

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Speaker 1: In today's episode, I'm going to tell two stories that
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Speaker 1: are each about sort of joyful events or celebrations. But
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Speaker 1: in both cases, they take a horrible turn just because
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Speaker 1: of one small decision. But before we get into today's stories,
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Speaker 1: let's get into our first story called Peace and Serenity.
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Speaker 1: On the morning of July 23rd, 2006, a 74-year-old artist
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Speaker 1: named Maurice Agus paced back and forth near an art
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Speaker 1: exhibit in Riverside Park in Chesterless Street, England. And Maurice
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Speaker 1: was frustrated because this was supposed to be one of
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Speaker 1: the biggest days of his entire 40-year career as an artist.
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Speaker 1: Right now, his exhibit, his masterpiece, should be full of people.
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Speaker 2: But it wasn't. So Maurice's exhibit was called Dream Space.
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Speaker 1: It was this massive structure about half the size of
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Speaker 1: a soccer field, and inside of it was the sprawling
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Speaker 1: network of small, colorful, interconnected rooms. Dream Space was designed
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Speaker 1: so that visitors could sort of wander from room to
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Speaker 1: room and be affected by the music and soothing lighting
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Speaker 1: and have kind of an immersive, serene experience. And this
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Speaker 1: was by far the largest physical exhibit that Maurice had
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Speaker 1: ever done. So it had taken a lot of preparation,
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Speaker 1: and naturally there had been some construction hiccups, but It
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Speaker 1: was all going to be worth it because Maurice knew
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Speaker 1: it was about to be seen by a lot of
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Speaker 1: people since it was located in a really big public park. However,
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Speaker 1: before they could actually open, there was still one more
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Speaker 1: hiccup to deal with. This morning when Maurice had arrived,
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Speaker 1: he'd realized that part of his exhibit had not been
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Speaker 1: set up correctly. So he and his staff had spent
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Speaker 1: the last few hours rushing around to fix everything and
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Speaker 1: add some finishing touches to the exterior. And Maurice knew
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Speaker 1: they really needed to hurry here because making these changes
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Speaker 1: had already taken up way too much time, and they
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Speaker 1: were already late in opening the exhibit. Maurice could see
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Speaker 1: that there were guests who had already purchased tickets who
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Speaker 1: were lining up at the entrance to get into Dream Space,
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Speaker 1: and they looked confused and sort of annoyed about why
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Speaker 1: they weren't inside already.
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Speaker 2: And so naturally, Maurice.
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Speaker 1: Was afraid that if he didn't wrap this up soon
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Speaker 1: and start letting people in, these people would just start leaving,
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Speaker 1: which meant they would not get to see how amazing
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Speaker 1: his masterpiece was, and that would be just devastating. So
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Speaker 1: at this point, Maurice just stepped back and he looked
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Speaker 1: at what he and his staff had done so far
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Speaker 1: in terms of fixes. And he decided that, you know,
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Speaker 1: things were looking good enough. They'd addressed the major issues
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Speaker 1: that he had had. And even though Maurice was ultimately
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Speaker 1: a perfectionist and would have liked to do even more additions,
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Speaker 1: just getting Dreamspace open at this point was way more important.
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Speaker 2: So Maurice told his staff to.
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Speaker 1: Stop what they were doing and go to the entrance
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Speaker 1: and start letting the visitors in. A few hours later,
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Speaker 1: around 3.15 p.m., 68-year-old Elizabeth Collings walked into Riverside Park
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Speaker 1: with her 14-year-old grandson. They lived in the area, and
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Speaker 1: they had just decided to take a walk together in
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Speaker 1: the park. And Elizabeth was glad they had. It was
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Speaker 1: like the perfect summer day. There was a light breeze.
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Speaker 1: It was very sunny and warm. And so with the
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Speaker 1: wind rustling her hair and her grandson happily walking beside her,
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Speaker 1: she felt very at peace. But just then, her grandson
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Speaker 1: stopped and sort of broke her peace by telling her to, hey,
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Speaker 1: Look at this. And Elizabeth turned and looked, you know,
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Speaker 1: where her grandson was pointing. And she saw on the
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Speaker 1: other side of the park, there was this sprawling, colorful
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Speaker 1: structure with a huge line of people out front and
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Speaker 1: soothing music coming from its open doors. And Elizabeth thought,
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Speaker 1: you know, whatever that is, it looked really intriguing and
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Speaker 1: not like anything she had ever seen before. So she
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Speaker 1: was just excited as her grandson to go check it out.
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Speaker 2: And so she said, let's go.
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Speaker 1: Just a few minutes later, and Elizabeth and her grandson
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Speaker 1: had purchased their tickets and actually stepped inside the exhibit.
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Speaker 2: And Elizabeth knew instantly that this had been a great idea.
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Speaker 1: The lights were dim inside and the colorful walls seemed
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Speaker 1: to almost glow as they went from room to room.
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Speaker 1: And all around them, the dreamy, tranquil music played. And
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Speaker 1: even though it was fairly crowded and pretty hot inside,
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Speaker 1: it still felt quite peaceful. and Elizabeth could feel her
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Speaker 1: entire body just sort of relax. And for the next
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Speaker 1: 10 minutes or so, she and her grandson just wandered
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Speaker 1: around slowly, taking in the.
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Speaker 2: Atmosphere and the lights and the music. It was really nice.
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Speaker 2: At some point, they made their way.
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Speaker 1: Into this room which had this beautiful blue hue to it,
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Speaker 1: and there was some light coming in from the room
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Speaker 1: next to them which was sort of brownish, and when
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Speaker 1: the color of the room they were in and this
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Speaker 1: brownish light combined, it sort of had this effect of
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Speaker 1: making the room feel almost green, and then mixed with
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Speaker 1: the music. It was just this really cool experience. And
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Speaker 1: both Elizabeth and her grandson were just sort of transfixed,
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Speaker 1: sort of taking.
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Speaker 2: In this really cool exhibit.
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Speaker 1: But as they were taking this in, all of a sudden,
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Speaker 1: there was this deafening snapping sound. And the moment that
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Speaker 1: snapping sound happened, Elizabeth suddenly felt dizzy and disoriented.
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Speaker 2: And as she stared at all the colors around her,
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Speaker 2: the room seemed to almost tilt.
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Speaker 1: And she found herself stumbling a few steps, like the
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Speaker 1: room was moving and she was losing her balance. And
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Speaker 1: at first she wondered if maybe the lights and the
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Speaker 1: heat were just getting to her. Except then she couldn't
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Speaker 1: help but have this almost floating sensation, like the room
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Speaker 1: itself was moving.
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Speaker 2: Away from her.
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Speaker 1: And then she realized her feet were no longer touching
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Speaker 1: The creator of Dream Space, Maurice, had been outside with
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Speaker 1: the guests who were in line waiting to get into
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Speaker 1: the exhibit. And so far, the day really had been
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Speaker 1: going great.
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Speaker 2: I mean, he had done all.
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Speaker 1: Those last minute changes and fixes to the exhibit and
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Speaker 1: he had sort of got it done just in time
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Speaker 1: to open it up. And now all these people are
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Speaker 1: here and there's at least 40 some odd people in
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Speaker 1: line with more and more joining. And everybody who comes
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Speaker 1: out of the exhibit is, you know, beaming and talking
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Speaker 1: about what an incredible experience it was. I mean, the
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Speaker 1: day had been going great for Maurice until he heard
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Speaker 1: that snapping sound. When that loud snap rang out, everybody
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Speaker 1: heard it. And then Maurice, who was looking away from
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Speaker 1: dream space, he began hearing screams behind him. And then
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Speaker 1: before he could say or do anything, he just sort
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Speaker 1: of whipped around and looked. And all he saw were
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Speaker 1: these shapes just falling from the sky and smashing into
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Speaker 1: the ground. And at first, Maurice and everybody else around
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Speaker 1: him didn't even know what they were. Then suddenly Maurice
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Speaker 1: realized those shapes were people. So earlier in the day,
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Speaker 1: when Maurice and his staff were sort of hustling to
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Speaker 1: get all those last-minute fixes done on this exhibit so
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Speaker 1: they could open it to the public, well, Maurice, who
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Speaker 1: knew this was going to be his last big art exhibit,
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Speaker 1: this was like the end of his career, it was
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Speaker 1: supposed to be the exclamation point on a storied career here,
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Speaker 1: He was so worried that if he didn't get the
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Speaker 1: doors open fast enough that people in line were going
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Speaker 1: to leave and not even show up and it would
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Speaker 1: be this catastrophic failure that he ultimately basically stopped his
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Speaker 1: staff from finishing all the renovations, all the fixes he
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Speaker 1: needed to do in favor of just getting people in
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Speaker 1: the door. And the way he sort of rationalized it was, well,
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Speaker 1: you know, I'm a perfectionist and I would have liked
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Speaker 1: to have done all the fixes, but I did enough.
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Speaker 1: It's good enough. Let's get this place open.
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Speaker 2: Let's send people in.
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Speaker 1: The problem with that is some of the things that
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Speaker 1: he overlooked in his haste to open up the front
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Speaker 1: doors for the public included vital safety precautions. Some of
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Speaker 1: these missed safety precautions included tying down a series of
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Speaker 1: extra ropes to anchor the exhibit to the ground. The
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Speaker 1: staff had ultimately tied down the front of the structure, but,
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Speaker 1: you know, because Maurice rushed them to get the place open,
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Speaker 1: they didn't anchor the back of the exhibit. And this
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Speaker 1: would turn out to be just a catastrophic oversight. Dream
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Speaker 1: Space was not a regular permanent art exhibit. It was
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Speaker 1: not made of walls and concrete with a real foundation.
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Speaker 1: It was an inflatable exhibit made of plastic sheeting, sort
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Speaker 1: of like what shower curtains are made of. So even
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Speaker 1: though there was just a light breeze going through the
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Speaker 1: park that day, it was enough to sort of suddenly
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Speaker 1: lift the entire dream space structure out of the ground.
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Speaker 2: Because again, there was just a.
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Speaker 1: Couple of anchors, not a full set of anchors. And
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Speaker 1: so suddenly the wind yanks the space out of the ground.
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Speaker 2: That was the snapping sound.
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Speaker 1: And so basically this big structure turned into like a
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Speaker 1: giant hot air balloon. And everybody inside of it, the
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Speaker 1: dozens of people, including Elizabeth and her grandson, were thrown
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Speaker 1: 30 feet into the air. And they're all trapped inside
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Speaker 1: of this this plasticky structure that's contorting in the wind
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Speaker 1: up at 30 feet. And as the wind picked up,
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Speaker 1: the higher up they went, the Dream Space structure, as
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Speaker 1: it contorted, began ejecting all of the people inside of
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Speaker 1: it out. And so that's why when Maurice looked, he
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Speaker 1: saw all these people falling to the ground. In the end,
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Speaker 1: 27 people were injured and two were killed, including Elizabeth Collings.
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Speaker 2: As for Maurice Agus, the creator of Dream Space.
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Speaker 1: He was convicted of a health and safety violation and
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Speaker 1: given a fine. But despite that being a relatively light
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Speaker 1: punishment relative to what happened, he was so devastated by
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Speaker 1: the destruction that his creation caused that he never made
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Speaker 1: anything like it again.
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Speaker 2: This was the last piece of art he ever did.
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Speaker 1: And in fact, he died just three years later in 2009.
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Speaker 2: At 5 a.m.
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Speaker 1: On December 24th, 1885, 30-year-old Samuel Wardell abruptly sat up
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Speaker 1: in his bed in New York City, having just been
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Speaker 1: woken up by the sound of his deafening alarm clock.
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Speaker 1: And just like every other morning, Samuel immediately got up
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Speaker 1: out of his bed and he trudged across the floor
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Speaker 1: of his one-bedroom apartment to the shelf where his alarm
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Speaker 1: clock was, and he reset it. Now, the placing of
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Speaker 1: this alarm clock was very intentional. Samuel was a very,
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Speaker 1: very heavy sleeper. And so by putting the clock all
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Speaker 1: the way over there, it forced him to get out
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Speaker 1: of bed, walk all the way across the room to
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Speaker 1: reset it, and then.
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Speaker 2: Ideally, he just wouldn't go back to bed. And for
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Speaker 2: the most part, he wouldn't.
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Speaker 1: Now, it can't be overstated just how heavy a sleeper
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Speaker 1: Samuel actually was. In fact, he'd actually taken another step
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Speaker 1: to make sure that he really could not sleep through
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Speaker 1: his alarm. He'd made some additional alterations to the alarm.
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Speaker 2: Clock, that made it way louder. Now, this did.
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Speaker 1: Seem sort of like overkill to most people who knew
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Speaker 1: about it, but it was hard to argue with the results.
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Speaker 1: Samuel had not been late to work in years. And
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Speaker 1: that was really important because Samuel had a very early
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Speaker 1: morning job that he didn't want to lose. He was
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Speaker 1: a city lamplighter. In 1885, large parts of New York
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Speaker 1: City still relied on gas-burning streetlights when it got dark outside.
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Speaker 2: So the way it worked is there was.
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Speaker 1: A night shift lamplighter, not Samuel, this is somebody else,
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Speaker 1: who would go around the city and light those lights
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Speaker 1: at dusk. And then in the early morning hours, the
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Speaker 1: morning lamplighter, Samuel, would go put them out again. And
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Speaker 1: so that's why he had to get up early to
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Speaker 1: go put out the lamps. And even though Samuel really
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Speaker 1: didn't like getting up this early, the reality was is
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Speaker 1: he did need the job. And also, too, he had
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Speaker 1: sort of grown fond of the job. He had a
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Speaker 1: lot of fun doing it. Over the years, he'd become
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Speaker 1: very friendly with basically everybody on his local.
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Speaker 2: Route, and so he didn't mind it. You know, getting
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Speaker 2: up was painful, but it was worth it.
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Speaker 1: Samuel actually had become so close with the people on
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Speaker 1: his route that that night he was going to be
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Speaker 1: throwing this big Christmas party for all these people. It
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Speaker 1: was like all his friends from his job were going
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Speaker 1: to come over and celebrate with him, and he was...
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Speaker 1: He was really excited about it, but that was not
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Speaker 1: going to be until much later that night. You know,
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Speaker 1: for now, he just needed to reset his alarm clock,
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Speaker 1: get dressed, and go out and put out those lamps.
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Speaker 1: Fast forward to the end of the night, and Samuel now,
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Speaker 1: as he's done with his work, he's back home, all
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Speaker 1: his friends are over, and he's pouring some ale from
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Speaker 1: this big barrel that his friends had brought over for
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Speaker 1: this party, and he's just having fun.
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Speaker 2: A great time.
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Speaker 1: The single room of his tiny apartment was now packed
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Speaker 1: with about 30 people. And they too were all having
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Speaker 1: just a great time. They didn't care how small it was.
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Speaker 1: This was just like an awesome party. Now, by this point,
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Speaker 1: Samuel and his friends had already spent the last few
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Speaker 1: hours drinking. And so they were quite drunk, but they
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Speaker 1: were having a great time laughing and eating and everyone's.
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Speaker 2: Just having so much fun.
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Speaker 1: And so even though it was definitely getting late and
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Speaker 1: Samuel did have to work the next day, It just
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Speaker 1: felt like the party was not about to end anytime soon.
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Speaker 2: And Samuel was not quite ready to turn it off yet.
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Speaker 2: He was having too good of a time.
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Speaker 1: And so when one of his friends randomly stood up
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Speaker 1: and sort of drunkenly suggested they have an amateur boxing match,
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Speaker 1: Samuel immediately voiced his approval along.
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Speaker 2: With everybody else.
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Speaker 1: They cheered.
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Speaker 2: They're like, yeah, let's do it.
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Speaker 1: And so Samuel and the other party guests, they cleared
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Speaker 1: the furniture out from, you know, the single room, you know,
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Speaker 1: to set up the boxing ring.
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Speaker 2: And then Samuel and.
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Speaker 1: The others all stood back and cheered while two of
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Speaker 1: their friends began, you know, fighting each other in the
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Speaker 1: middle of the apartment. It was like this totally crazy
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Speaker 1: booze-fueled just madness happening inside of this place. And Samuel
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Speaker 1: was having the time of his life not thinking remotely
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Speaker 1: about how absolutely miserable it was going to be waking
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Speaker 1: up in now just a few hours when his alarm
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Speaker 1: went off at 5 a.m. He was just doing his
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Speaker 1: best not to think about it. You know, enjoy the party.
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Speaker 2: That's it.
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Speaker 1: And so for a while, the madness continued until eventually
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Speaker 1: people did get really tired and began leaving. And before long,
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Speaker 1: it was just Samuel standing in his now totally destroyed
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Speaker 1: apartment from this party.
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Speaker 2: And so at this point, Samuel, he looked at his
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Speaker 2: clock and he saw he.
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Speaker 1: Had, you know, barely two hours before he would have
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Speaker 1: to get up for work. And he's thinking, oh my gosh,
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Speaker 1: this is going to be so awful. I'm going to
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Speaker 1: feel so miserable, but it was totally worth it.
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Speaker 2: What a great party.
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Speaker 1: And so very drunkenly, Samuel kind of stumbled his way
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Speaker 1: over to his bed. He just fell right down on
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Speaker 1: top of it and he fell asleep. And sure enough,
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Speaker 1: you know, just about two hours later at 5 a.m. sharp,
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Speaker 1: his alarm went off. Hours later on Christmas afternoon, a
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Speaker 1: local police officer walked up to Samuel Wardell's front door
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Speaker 1: and knocked. The officer was there because Samuel's boss had
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Speaker 1: called the station and when Samuel had failed to show
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Speaker 1: up for work that morning. And this was so out
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Speaker 1: of character for Samuel that right away his boss contacted
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Speaker 1: the police and said, please, someone needs to go check
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Speaker 1: on him and make sure he's okay. And so now
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Speaker 1: the officer waited at the door for Samuel. But when
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Speaker 1: no one answered, he tried the door handle. And he
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Speaker 1: found it was locked. But this was a very rickety,
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Speaker 1: tiny home. And the officer could tell it would not
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Speaker 1: take much to basically kick the door in. And so
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Speaker 1: after calling out for Samuel a few more times and knocking.
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Speaker 2: you know, pretty loud and.
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Speaker 1: Still not getting a response, the officer just stepped back
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Speaker 1: and then kicked the door and blasted it open. And
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Speaker 1: so the officer stepped inside the home and immediately saw Samuel.
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Speaker 1: And when he did, he understood why he had missed work.
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Speaker 1: It would turn out when Samuel went to bed after
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Speaker 1: his big party, he forgot to move his bed back
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Speaker 1: into the position that it normally was in. You know,
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Speaker 1: he had moved the furniture around for that boxing match.
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Speaker 2: And just didn't put it back. And so instead, he.
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Speaker 1: Wound up going to sleep with his bed all the
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Speaker 1: way across the room, under the shelf where he kept
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Speaker 1: his alarm clock. And this was like the worst place
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Speaker 1: for Samuel to fall asleep. Because, you know, he had
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Speaker 1: set his alarm to go off at 5 a.m. the
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Speaker 1: following morning, just like he did every day. But his
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Speaker 1: alarm clock.
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Speaker 2: Was not a normal alarm clock.
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Speaker 1: Samuel had intentionally altered his alarm clock to be way
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Speaker 1: louder than a standard alarm clock. The way he had
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Speaker 1: done that was fairly unique.
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Speaker 2: He had run a.
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Speaker 1: Wire between a normal alarm clock and this shelf that
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Speaker 1: had hinges. Basically, the shelf could be situated like this
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Speaker 1: or it could fold down, basically making it flush to
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Speaker 1: the wall.
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Speaker 2: So it could hold stuff or be flush to the wall.
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Speaker 1: And so when his normal wind-up alarm clock would go
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Speaker 1: off in the morning and begin to ring, it would
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Speaker 1: begin to vibrate and would sort of move across the shelf.
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Speaker 1: And connected to it was this wire that ran to
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Speaker 1: the hinges and And at a certain point, when this
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Speaker 1: alarm sort of got far enough, it would pull enough
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Speaker 1: to disable the hinges, and the shelf that was situated
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Speaker 1: like this would suddenly fall. And in order to make
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Speaker 1: this alarm really, really loud, Samuel had put a 10-pound
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Speaker 1: rock on that shelf. So the instant the hinges dropped,
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Speaker 1: that 10-pound rock came crashing down and smashed into the floor,
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Speaker 1: causing a huge noise that consistently woke Samuel up. But
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Speaker 1: on the morning after his big party, because Samuel was
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Speaker 1: sleeping now directly under the shelf because he didn't move
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Speaker 1: his bed back, that 10-pound rock didn't hit the ground.
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Speaker 1: It fell and smashed directly. into Samuel's head and broke
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