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Posted on 06/30/2008 12:19:31 PM PDT by Renfield
A 17-year-old plunged his car off the summit of Pikes Peak this afternoon, in authorities said appeared to be a suicide attempt.
The teen's 1985 Nissan Maxima plunged more than 1,000 feet down the ravine strewn with boulders and skree. He pulled himself from the wreckage, but it took hours for local rescuers and military helicopters to make the daring rescue.
"We've had rain, we've had snow, we've had lightning popping around us all day," Steve Sperry, spokesman for El Paso County Search and Rescue, said by cellphone shortly after the teen-ager was lifted from the mountain by a Chinook helicopter, after a Blackhawk helicopter had been unsuccessful in the windy, high-altitude terrain.
He was taken to Memorial Hospital in Colorado Springs in stable condition, Sperry said. He would not identify the teen-ager except to say he was from Colorado.
Witnesses in the parking lot saw the teen's car plunge off the north side of the parking lot at about 1:15 p.m.
Police say the incident was a suicide attempt stemming from a relationship between the boy and his girlfriend that had recently ended.
Pikes Peak rises to 14,110 feet above sea level west of Colorado Springs. Called "America's Mountain," where the song "America the Beautiful" was inspired, the upper portion of the mountain is a federally designated historic landmark.
dumbass
How did this moron survive a 1,000ft fall....I may look for a maxima.
He can’t even off himself without messing that up.
Just training for the race: http://www.ppihc.com/
He probably forgot to take off his seatbelt.
>> A 17-year-old plunged his car off the summit of Pikes Peak this afternoon, in authorities said appeared to be a suicide attempt.
Well, if you’re going to commit suicide ... might as well make it an impressive spectacle.
>> Witnesses in the parking lot saw the teen’s car plunge off the north side of the parking lot at about 1:15 p.m.
That must have been something to see.
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I would say that this kid should start thinking about his future. Someone up there seems to think he’s got unfinished business.
Those Maximas were REALLY built back in the eighties and nineties.
Probably mad because his parents gave him a 23 yr-old car.
Something tells me that after he gets out of the hospital, he’s going to get a ticket for littering, and one heck of a bill from El Paso County!
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Probably left his seat belt on so he wouldn’t get a ticket.
Maxima Overdrive
We had an ‘84 and traded it for a ‘90...loved bofum.
Did he continue to run the car while he was dropping it off the cliff or did he shut the engine off and roll?
I’d hate to think he was contributing to the global warming problem while attempting suicide....that’d be pretty selfish.
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Not going fast enough to get enough distance. Obviously not a scientific type.
Bless the rescuers.
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The missus had a 1990 and it lasted forever with very little maintainence. Not like the newer models.
He’s lucky. In the movies when a car goes off a cliff it immediately bursts into flames.
I think that they should charge him and his family for the search and rescue efforts.
He earlier tried to slash his wrists by using an electric razor.
Roger that! The Good Lord must have a plan for such a ‘resilient’ human being.
Nissam Maxima: appropriate choice for Kami-car-ze.
Reminds me of what I was driving back in college.
Sure seems that way.
Note to self: when son learns to drive, buy him old Nissan Maxima.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Try it next time without the car, Hotshot!
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Yes, that was before the French took them over.
Were the cameras rolling?
Actually, here in Colorado Springs, specifically El Paso County they DO tend to charge for rescues, depending on the circumstances (the state will try something for sure) - but it isn’t a sure thing.
There may be a bill though, whether they pay it, that’s another story
Yup. And teach him that NO girl is worth that much grief.
I could understand entering a judgement against the 17 y/o, to begin paying back the county after he turns 18, but why should his family have to pay? What did they do wrong?
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I love Pike’s Peak. I was there on a mid-August day a few years back and the temperature was a scorching 42 degrees Fahrenheit. WONDERFUL relief for a southerner used to baking every summer.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
“Those Maximas were REALLY built back in the eighties and nineties.”
Oh yea.... Nothing is safer than a little riceburner.
probably heard that frickin “first there is a mountain,then there isn’t...then there is...” commercial one too many times.
Had an ‘89 with over 200K that I would still be driving if I hadn’t been rear ended. Bought a ‘01 model, and while it’s a fine car, isn’t the same as my ‘89.
It’s amazing how many ‘80s Maximas are still out there and looking/running good.
What the hell is wrong with these kids today?
FAIL
Visited your neck of the woods last week! Awesome time, want to retire there! Went up Pike and the altitude thing kept me pretty focused on myself! Bought a sweatshirt too!
The last guy to do this used a pickup truck, and flew about 2,000 feet, and if I recall, about 1500 feet of it was down. It worked for him.
That was maybe 10 or 15 years ago.
My house sits on the east side of the Springs, near Powers Blvd.
My view is of Pikes Peak and the front range. :)
I moved here 19 years ago because of the view!
"He should have bought a squirrel."
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