Intoxicated?
Odds are good, I'd say. Or he was just really bad at estimating heights and thought 14 floors would give him the minimum 500 ft needed to stand a chance in hell of a chute opening.
Base jumpers use a parasail for jumping off buildings don't they?
I hope that's what it was. At least some prospect there of it working.
I drank a fifth a day for 15 years, and I never got so drunk that I jumped off a building. I did fall off some stairs tho. But my point is: it takes more than booze to do something that stupid.
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