Man narrowly avoids falling bricks as he walks past collapsing building

FoxNews.com ^ | Mar 10, 2019 | Lucia I. Suarez Sang | Fox News

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Stunning video shows a man in London narrowly escape being crushed by falling bricks as a howling wind caused a café's roof to collapse Sunday.

CCTV footage shows the passerby strolling past Stokey Vintage Café on Stoke Newington High Street just moments before a mass of bricks and rubble tumbled to the ground.

“While the boys were fundraising this happened across the road,” the Hackney Wick FC soccer club shared on Twitter with the CCTV video.

“A reminder that you can be taken at any time so be thankful for surviving another day.”

Petulia Mattioli, who had walked past the building minutes before the incident, told the Evening Standard that she had stopped at the café windows for a few seconds before crossing the road.

“You never realize how death is real until you face it…I was lucky,” she said.

Mattioli is seen in the CCTV footage crossing the road before the man strolls past.

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[Doogle]

...better play the lottery..

[dfwgator]

[Buckeye McFrog]

[lee martell]

Wow! That’s like something from a Road Runner cartoon.
It just wasn’t his time to go.
Don’t fear The Reaper.

[MCF]

Two seconds between life and death.

[dead]

My dad worked in NYC as a young man. One of his coworkers went out to lunch one day and never came back. Dad found out the next day that an air conditioner fell out of a window and killed him as he walked down the street.

[ETL]

Two seconds between life and death.

Times like these is when those little (2-sec) things you did prior matter a whole lot!

[ETL]

Wow! Talk about bad friggin luck!

[FrdmLvr]

Good thing he’s not a window shopper.

[sparklite2]

you can be taken at any time so be thankful for surviving another day.

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I’m dancing as fast as I can.

[sparklite2]

Wow! Talk about bad friggin luck!

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It was an air conditioner. So
that would be bad fridgein’ luck.

[dfwgator]

Lucky he wasn't walking his dog.

[antidemoncrat]

First you say it ($hit) and then you do it.

[Larry Lucido]

I think they did that in Fargo season 3.

[knarf]

yep .... go home, wash yer drawers out and change clothes and get to church.

Don't come out until God CLEARLY says ... "Because I love you"

[mountn man]

One guy missed the Ethiopian Air plane by 2 minutes.

[353FMG]

OUCH! That would hurt.

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[ETL]

London Buildings falling down,
Falling down, falling down,
London Buildings falling down,
My fair Lady.

Build it up with wood and clay,
Wood and clay, wood and clay,
Build it up with wood and clay,
My fair Lady.

Wood and clay will wash away,
Wash away, wash away,
Wood and clay will wash away,
My fair Lady.

Build it up with bricks and mortar,
Bricks and mortar, bricks and mortar,
Build it up with bricks and mortar,
My fair Lady.