Posted on 04/04/2007 10:02:02 AM PDT by Millee
A Chinese woman survived a plunge from a sixth-floor balcony thanks to a convenient pile of excrement which broke her fall, local media said.
The accident happened when the woman was hanging out laundry on Monday in Nanjing, capital of the eastern province of Jiangsu, the Kuaibao tabloid said on its Web site (www.kuaibao.net).
"Workers happened to be emptying the building's septic tank, which had not been tended for a long time and had regularly blocked sewage pipes," the newspaper said.
"She probably stretched out too far and fell ... right on to a 20 cm-thick heap of excrement."
The woman suffered only slight injuries, the newspaper said.
In March, a six-year-old girl broke only her left leg when she fell six floors on to a pile of snow in the northeastern province of Heilongjiang.
Sounds like the famous Defenestration of Prague of 1618, when the Czechs threw their Imperial governors out the window 60 feet up. They survived the fall for the same reason as this lady.
The D of P started the 30 Years War.
Dr. Demento!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Where HAVE you beeeeeen????
Falls in it, and comes out smelling like a rose!
That’s some deep $hit!
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