Posted on 01/21/2007 5:58:46 AM PST by nuconvert
Man Falls From 17th Floor at Minneapolis Hotel, Survives
January 21, 2007
MINNEAPOLIS — A Wisconsin man in town for a dart tournament apparently was goofing around Saturday morning at the Minneapolis Hyatt Regency when he crashed through a window and fell 16 stories.
The man, identified in a police report as 29-year-old Joshua S. Hanson, of Blair, Wis., landed on a roof overhang near the hotel's main entrance along Nicollet Mall. His most serious injury was a broken leg.
The man must have "an angel on his shoulder or something," said Minneapolis police Lt. Dale Barsness. "He's a lucky guy."
He was taken to Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis. His condition was not immediately known.
According to the police report, Hanson and two friends were out drinking and returned to the Hyatt about 1:30 a.m. Saturday.
They might have been horsing around as they took an elevator to the 17th floor, Barsness said. For some reason, Hanson ran from the elevator and down a short hallway toward a floor-to-ceiling window, he said. He apparently lost his balance and crashed through the glass, landing through the awning of the overhang below.
Rescue crews extricated him from the awning and metal grating while paramedics worked to stabilize him, said Assistant Fire Chief Ulie Seal. He was strapped on a backboard and brought down in a fire truck basket, he said.
"This has never happened before," said Tom Mason, general manager of the Hyatt.
The window was double-paned, and had a safety bar, he said, adding that hotel officials will investigate and "will take whatever steps we have to do to ensure safety."
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Bet he needed a change of undies. Hard to imagine what would be going through your mind. Must have been a near-death experience (duh).
And you all hated your teachers for telling you not to run in the hallways at school. Now you know why! (and as for the scissors, well.......)
That's probably what got him off balance and made him fall.
..."He's a lucky guy." ...
If he was lucky he wouldn't have fallen in the first place.
"Hard to imagine what would be going through your mind."
The sidewalk, if the overhang would not have been there.
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...."
LOL
You've heard about the optimist who fell twenty stories?
As he passed each floor people could hear him say: "So far - so good!"
I'll say. A friend of mine fell over second story level of the staircase onto a hard floor and broke her pelvis, shoulder, ribs, and tail bone. And that was just about a 12 foot drop.
My attorneys have an exclusive Siren Service. ;-)
We can only imagine. Do want to hear, for sure; what was going through his.
Oprah? O'Reilly? Fox and Friends?
G. Wizzand Howe reports he has signed the client.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.