NEWS: Man falls 18 floors, lives to tell[views:7487][posts:30]__________________________________ [Apr 22,2004 1:52pm - succubus ""] http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/africa/04/22...south.africa.plunge.reut/index.html CAPE TOWN, South Africa (Reuters) -- A South African man survived an 18-floor plunge from a Cape Town hotel room and was well enough to call out to amazed rescuers, police said Thursday. Nicholas du Plooy broke both arms and a leg and also injured his neck late Tuesday after he toppled out of a 19th-floor window at the Cape Town Ritz Hotel late Tuesday. Nearby restaurant worker Gino Del Giovine told the Cape Argus newspaper he was alerted to the accident by passers-by who burst into his business yelling "Hey, we've just seen a guy flying off the top of the Ritz!" "I was expecting a real mess," Del Giovine told the newspaper. Instead, he and others rushing to the scene found du Plooy had crash-landed on the roof of the hotel's ground floor reception, his fall apparently broken by metal roofing sheets. He was conscious and speaking. "He said, 'I need help, my neck is in pain'," Del Giovine told the newspaper. After treatment at a nearby hospital, medics pronounced du Plooy "stable, talking and fine." Police said they believed du Plooy's plunge was accidental but would not speculate on the circumstances. "There's no foul play suspected. The guy just fell out of the window," police spokeswoman Priscilla Ndongeni said. |
| ____________________________________ [Apr 22,2004 2:24pm - MyDeadDoll ""] how the hell do you just fall out a window? |
| __________________________________ [Apr 22,2004 2:24pm - succubus ""] lol, good question |
| ______________________________________ [Apr 22,2004 2:27pm - the_reverend ""] I read that earlier. I was going to post it, but got busy. |
| __________________________________ [Apr 22,2004 2:31pm - succubus ""] the_reverend said:I read that earlier. I was going to post it, but got busy. same here...so i posted it now |
| _______________________________ [Apr 22,2004 2:48pm - davyp ""] MyDeadDoll said:how the hell do you just fall out a window? you've never poked your head out a window to far and almost fallen, thats probably how it happened though.... just checking out the ground from way up vertigo sets in and you get weak in the knees and arms and then he buckled over out the window down a crap load of floors and hit the ground.. |
| ______________________________________ [Apr 22,2004 2:53pm - the_reverend ""] your theory isn't very darwinian.. |
| ________________________________ [Apr 22,2004 3:08pm - morkul ""] Not to mention this is Arizona. There are barely 10 Buildings higher than 8 floors here. It's not like back east. It's considered a View Obstruction here. They wine cause they can't see the stupid mountains, but that will change within the next five years, guaranteed. |
| ____________________________________ [Apr 22,2004 3:39pm - MyDeadDoll ""] blame the old people that come here to die. it's just as popular as florida is for old farts. |
| _______________________________ [Apr 22,2004 3:39pm - davyp ""] the_reverend said:your theory isn't very darwinian.. he wouldn't have gotten a darwin award, he lived, |
| __________________________________________ [Apr 22,2004 3:55pm - TheGreatSpaldino ""] MyDeadDoll said:how the hell do you just fall out a window? Ask Eric Clapton's son... Oh wait... |
| ____________________________________ [Apr 22,2004 3:59pm - iamwiggins ""] awwwww shit....*bites knuckle* |
| ________________________________ [Apr 22,2004 5:49pm - retzam ""] davyp said:the_reverend said:your theory isn't very darwinian.. he wouldn't have gotten a darwin award, he lived, If he had injured his penis or testicles to the point where he couldn't reproduce then he could have gotten a Darwin Award. |
| ____________________________________ [Apr 22,2004 5:54pm - MyDeadDoll ""] i wonder if that would be possible... falling out a window and injuring your penis so you can't reproduce... maybe if he had hard on? |
| ________________________________ [Apr 22,2004 5:55pm - retzam ""] I can't think of a way that he could injure his penis or testicles to the point where he can't reproduce, without dying. |
| ____________________________________ [Apr 22,2004 6:01pm - MyDeadDoll ""] the guy that got stuck in the ball washer didn't die... |
| ________________________________ [Apr 22,2004 6:04pm - retzam ""] No, I mean, in a scenario where a man falls 18 floors, I can't see a possibility of his penis or testicles being injured leaving him alive. |
| ____________________________________ [Apr 22,2004 6:05pm - MyDeadDoll ""] well... his arms and legs were injured and he was still alive... a penis is just another appendage... i dunno... i don't have one |
| ________________________________ [Apr 22,2004 6:10pm - retzam ""] Yeah, but it isn't like if a guy falls on his penis, it breaks. To injure his reproductive glands to the point where they aren't functional, he would have to land in a strattle on some protrusion, which would probably kill him. |
| __________________________________ [Apr 22,2004 6:18pm - succubus ""] did someone say penis? [img] |
| ________________________________ [Apr 22,2004 6:19pm - retzam ""] Hahahahaha. I think that from now on, whenever someone says the word penis on this board, someone needs to post that picture. |
| _____________________________________ [Apr 22,2004 6:20pm - Wee...Bink! ""] If he lived to tell about it i wonder what he said.... In African: "Dude, i just fuckin fell 18 floors!!" |
| ________________________________ [Apr 22,2004 6:27pm - retzam ""] hahahaha |
| _______________________________________ [Apr 22,2004 6:38pm - DeOdiumMortis ""] His sac could've gotten snagged on the building on his way down. He lives, his balls are still hanging from an eleventh floor windowsill, no more reproducing for him. |
| ____________________________________ [Apr 22,2004 6:39pm - MyDeadDoll ""] see, i knew it could be done! thanks again for the plethora of penises picture... |
| _______________________________________ [Apr 22,2004 6:41pm - DeOdiumMortis ""] Am I the only one creative enough to figure these things out? |
| ________________________________ [Apr 22,2004 7:06pm - retzam ""] DeOdiumMortis said:His sac could've gotten snagged on the building on his way down. He lives, his balls are still hanging from an eleventh floor windowsill, no more reproducing for him. I did think of something like that, but how likely is it? I mean, if he is wearing pants, then that is like a billion to one shot. |
| ____________________________________ [Apr 22,2004 7:31pm - MyDeadDoll ""] what if he wasn't wearing pants... maybe they don't wanna say how he fell 'cos he was naked in front of the window waving his penis at the people down below... there, now i'm just as creative... |
| _____________________________________ [Apr 22,2004 9:03pm - Wee...Bink! ""] retzam said:DeOdiumMortis said:His sac could've gotten snagged on the building on his way down. He lives, his balls are still hanging from an eleventh floor windowsill, no more reproducing for him. I did think of something like that, but how likely is it? I mean, if he is wearing pants, then that is like a billion to one shot. my brother was trying to grab the top of a door and swing on it, and he missed and hit his sack on the doorknob and that shit ripped open.... no joke. |
| ______________________________________ [Apr 22,2004 9:28pm - the_reverend ""] retzam said:No, I mean, in a scenario where a man falls 18 floors, I can't see a possibility of his penis or testicles being injured leaving him alive. I got one... what if it was tied up there to a doorknob? |
| __________________________________ [Apr 23,2004 6:22am - succubus ""] yeowtch |