[MplsSteve]

Wow, I sure can't figure out how this guy survived such a fall!

Comments or opinions - anyone?

[PAR35]

If he had been sober, the fall probably would have killed him. He was probably too drunk to tense up before impact.

[proudofthesouth]

His Guardian Angel/s saved his butt! It obviously wasn't his time to die.

[heavenbound]

Probably landed on his head.

[PAR35]

After reading the story, I see that he was also helped by the glass and metal awning absorbing much of the impact.

[MAexile]

Sounds like a "Hold my beer" moment.

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[Go Gordon]

The man, identified by a police report as Joshua S. Hanson

Maybe that "S" is printed on his chest. Look, its a bird, its a plane, no its SuperJosh.

[zbigreddogz]

It happens. There was a Russian skydiver who's parachute didn't open from a mile up and lived. She (I think) broke almost every bone in her body, and was in traction for over a year, but she survived.

[Clint N. Suhks]

Darwin Award Honorable Mention

[tomcorn]

While his physical injuries are minor, I bet he is gonna have one helluva stutter for the rest of his life.

[robertpaulsen]

"For some reason, Hanson ran out of the elevator and took off down a short hallway of rooms toward a floor-to-ceiling window, he said. He then apparently lost his balance and crashed through the glass, he said."

Yer honor. My client obviously tripped on a defect in the hallway carpet, then crashed through a glass window, equally defective. The hotel was negligent in looking after the safety of its guests by placing windows in such a position that guests may easily fall through them

$10 million should cover my client's pain and suffering.

[tomcorn]

From seventeen stories Joshes impact velocity was about 46.2 Meters per second or 81 mph. 8 more stories up and Josh would have hit terminal velocity ( flared) at 120 mph.

[True Republican Patriot]

He is a DEMORAT and GOD didn't want him!! at least yet!!
and the Devil didn't want one from thr looney Left !!
so he is still here.......

[Lokibob]

3 guys approach St. Peter.
St. Peter asks them how they died.

The first says "I was exercising on my balcony, naked, when I slipped and fell. I grabbed the railing on the 15th floor and was hanging there, when this mad man starts hitting my hands. I lost my grip and fell to the ground, but landed on an awning, and slipped to the sidewalk, unhurt. Just as I got up, a refrigerator came crashing down and killed me".

The 2nd says "My girlfriend was cheating on me. I rushed into her apartment to find a naked guy hanging on her balcony rail. I hit his hands till he fell. He hit the awning and fell to the sidewalk, unhurt. I was so mad I grabbed the refrigerator and threw it off the balcony. The cord wrapped around my leg and I fell with the refrigerator."

The 3rd says " I was sitting in a refrigerator, buck ass naked...."

[BulletBobCo]

I hate it when that happens.

[Cicero]

I should think this must qualify for the Guiness Book of Records, although they may not want to encourage anyone to try for 19 floors.

[freepersup]

The body position on impact was critical. He must have landed predominantly feet down/head high.

The surface that he impacted was flexible enough to absorb much of the fall and subsequently the impact's energy.

Had he struck the awning head down, instead of breaking his leg, he may have broken his neck. Big difference.

Likewise, had he missed the awning and met with curbing, gutter, sidewalk, parking lot, wrought iron fence, etc., the outcome would have likely been much different.

His fall rate at impact was approx. 60 MPH (plus) and it took the lucky man about 4 seconds to impact the awning. The total distance fallen and the 'limited' impact speed were factors permitting survival.

Lady luck was on his side.

[beyond the sea]

"This has never happened before," said Tom Mason, general manager of the Hyatt.

..... and won't ever happen again.

[gcruse]

Wow.

Here's a guy whose state of drunkeness resulted in relaxation that saved from the death he wouldn't have been risking if he hadn't be drunk.

It's a moebius ring, or an Escher thing.

[UB355]

It was the liquor