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Thursday, October 28, 2010
Notre Dame Student Declan Sullivan Dies While Video Taping Practice
"Declan Sullivan died while videotaping a Notre Dame football practice and simultaneously tweeted commentary as he died.
The 20-year-old junior from Illinois was in the camera tower during the team's practice, when the tower collapsed.
The winds were reportedly 50 mph to 60 mph that day and it was unclear why Sullivan was in the tower in such dangerous conditions, as tornado warnings had been issued the day prior.
What makes the situation even odder were his tweets during the situation.
'Gust of wind up to 60mph well today will be fun at work... I guess I've lived long enough :-/,' he posted on his Facebook via Twitter accounts.
At around 4:06 pm the student posted another tweet and the camera tower collapsed at about 4:50 p.m.
He wrote, 'Holy f*ck holy f*ck this is terrifying.'
The 20-year-old junior from Illinois was in the camera tower during the team's practice, when the tower collapsed.
The winds were reportedly 50 mph to 60 mph that day and it was unclear why Sullivan was in the tower in such dangerous conditions, as tornado warnings had been issued the day prior.
What makes the situation even odder were his tweets during the situation.
'Gust of wind up to 60mph well today will be fun at work... I guess I've lived long enough :-/,' he posted on his Facebook via Twitter accounts.
At around 4:06 pm the student posted another tweet and the camera tower collapsed at about 4:50 p.m.
He wrote, 'Holy f*ck holy f*ck this is terrifying.'
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