Dowbrigade

He
chose the city’s most famous skyscraper as the place to end his life.
But three weeks after a man leaped off the observation deck of the Empire
State Building, his absence has gone unnoticed by the world at large
and he is still known to police simply as No. 6071.

His identity and the personal demons that drove him to suicide are still a mystery.

"There have been no missing persons reports, no tips, no phone calls," a
detective from the NYPD’s missing persons squad told the Daily News. "We’re
just hoping someone out there knows who he is."

The man carried no identification and left no note, and his fingerprints didn’t
turn up in any databank.

Didn’t an overlapping system of fences, nets, barriers
and aprons make this impossible years ago? Obviously not…

story from the New
York Daily News