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...silly bugger...$20 bet to climb tree, dude ends up dead?
Julian Spencer was adept at climbing trees as a young boy in his native Jamaica. So when the 49-year-old Dolton man bet a buddy he could scale the tree in front of another friend's Englewood home Monday night, he thought he made an easy $20.
Instead, Spencer tumbled 15 feet to his death when a branch he crawled up to broke during his quest to prove he still had what it takes, police said. He died at Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn from head injuries, the Cook County medical examiner's office said.
Spencer wasn't drinking alcohol -- just water -- when he scaled the tree, taking off his shoes and handing his wallet to Lawrence Williams, who lives in the basement of a home near the tree, friends said. Spencer crashed head first to the pavement, Williams said.
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