Ovingdean cliff fall

[Pogue Mahone]

I cycled past major police action shortly after 6pm today. It seemed something big had happened.

http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/13418753.Boy_fighting_for_life_after_cliff_fall_at_Ovingdean/?ref=rss

Awful. I have a 16 year old son - this could be someone he knows. I hope that he can pull through.

 

[TomandJerry]

Hope the lad survives and recovers

 

[symyjym]

I cycled past major police action shortly after 6pm today. It seemed something big had happened.

http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/13418753.Boy_fighting_for_life_after_cliff_fall_at_Ovingdean/?ref=rss

Awful. I have a 16 year old son - this could be someone he knows. I hope that he can pull through.

In the Argus today there were group of girls photoed dangling their legs over the edge of a cliff just along the coast.

http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/1341...heir_lives_by_sitting_on_the_edge_of_a_cliff/

 

[Pogue Mahone]

In the Argus today there were group of girls photoed dangling their legs over the edge of a cliff just along the coast.

http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/1341...heir_lives_by_sitting_on_the_edge_of_a_cliff/

Madness.

I've never seen anyone do this around here, though, and we haven't had any cliff falls (as in the cliff itself falling) in living memory. I wouldn't like to puclicly speculate on what may have happened here, but there's no mention of anyone else being around.

Very sad.

 

[Drumstick]

Saw it on my way to work. Hope he survives and all my best to his family.

 

[melias shoes]

In the Argus today there were group of girls photoed dangling their legs over the edge of a cliff just along the coast.

http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/1341...heir_lives_by_sitting_on_the_edge_of_a_cliff/

What were they thinking.

 

[el punal]

What were they thinking.

When they're that age they think they're immortal, when you reach my age you KNOW you're not.

 

[¡Cereal Killer!]

Saw the police cars parked up at the bus stop when I finished work.
Could be a foreign student from the language school in Ovingdean, there is normally a few there when I leave work.

 

[TomandJerry]

"A teenager found with life threatening injuries at the bottom of cliffs in Brighton has died.

The 15-year-old boy, who was found on the underpass of Ovingdean Gap, having fallen from the cliff above at about 6pm on Tuesday, died in hospital later that day."

R.I.P

 

[Gullflyinghigh]

That's just awful. So young and such a meaningless way to go, horrible.

 

[Insel affe]

R.I.P young man

 

[Thunder Bolt]

His poor family.

 

[Bold Seagull]

When they're that age they think they're immortal, when you reach my age you KNOW you're not.

I know, I shudder at a few things I did and got away with. Thankfully the majority of us do get away with it, but tragically not all of us. Poor kid.

 

[Fignon's Ponytail]

Awful news & thoughts go out to the family....
We live on the coast road, and have to call the Police at least a couple of times every summer because of people climbing over the fence & sitting on the cliff edge opposite us by the war memorial. Cant understand why they want to do it as its one of the highest points there and I would imagine the ground is quite unstable. We even saw a foreign couple having sex on the edge of the cliff one year....in the middle of the day fully naked. Crazy Germans!

 

[T soprano]

It was the son of Nick Cave just announced on Argus Twitter

 

[Buzzer]

It was the son of Nick Cave just announced on Argus Twitter

Oh cripes. How sad.

 

[dazzer6666]

http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/13420121.Rock_legend_Nick_Cave_s_son_killed_in_cliff_fall/

Terrible.

 

[Tooting Gull]

Regardless of anything else, who he was or how it happened, just a horrible story. RIP, and thoughts go to family and friends.

It's your worst fear as a parent, something terrible happening to your child. You can't think about it too much or you'd go mad and never let them have their freedom, but it is always there.

 

[spring hall convert]

Thoughts are with Nick and his family at this time. What a tragedy to befall such a great man.

 

[symyjym]

Couldn't even begin to imagine what this will be like for his twin brother.