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NYC man plunges 40 stories, lands on car, survives
ap ^ | Sep 1

Posted on 09/01/2010 9:19:21 AM PDT by JoeProBono

NEW YORK (AP) -- A New York City man who plunged 40 stories from the rooftop of an apartment building has survived after crashing onto a parked car.

Witnesses and police say 22-year-old Thomas Magill jumped from the high-rise at West 63rd Street on Tuesday. He landed in the backseat area of a Dodge Charger after crashing through the windshield.

He suffered broken legs...

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Lucky escape: Thomas Magill, 22, survived a 40-storey fall - thanks to a parked car

AFTER THE FALL: Tom Magill, 22, miraculously survived a leap yesterday from this West End Avenue building -- by landing on this Dodge Charger.


1 posted on 09/01/2010 9:19:24 AM PDT by JoeProBono
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To: JoeProBono

“Watch that foist step...it’s a lulu!”


2 posted on 09/01/2010 9:21:14 AM PDT by RichInOC (No! BAD Rich! (What'd I say?))
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To: JoeProBono

If that was my car I would have finished the Job on that loon.


3 posted on 09/01/2010 9:21:19 AM PDT by Cheetahcat (Zero the Wright kind of Racist! We are in a state of War with Democrats)
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To: JoeProBono

Wow. That sucks.


4 posted on 09/01/2010 9:21:34 AM PDT by goseminoles
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To: JoeProBono

Was”The Summer Of Recovery”just TOO much for Thomas Magill?


5 posted on 09/01/2010 9:24:41 AM PDT by bandleader
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To: JoeProBono

There are easier ways to get to street level from the upper floors of skyscrapers. They are called stairs and elevators. Takes a little longer but they hurt far less than taking a header onto the roof of a car or hard pavement.


6 posted on 09/01/2010 9:25:05 AM PDT by NCC-1701 (HEY, NAZI PELOUSY, ON NOVEMBER 2, WE WILL DRAIN THE SWAMP!)
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To: JoeProBono
I guess he didn't care if he killed somebody else on his way out.
7 posted on 09/01/2010 9:25:12 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("The only stable state is one in which all men are equal before the law." -- Aristotle)
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George:Yes, you see, the deceased landed on my car. The splat, as it were, actually took place on the roof of my car. I can’t help but think that had it been a convertible this whole tragedy may have been averted but I’ve never been the type to buy a convertible, what with the baldness and all.

Mrs. SWEEDLER: Well I’ve known bald men who owned convertibles. They wore a hat.

George: Well then it’s all pulled down. Anyway....


8 posted on 09/01/2010 9:26:04 AM PDT by earlJam
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To: JoeProBono

How do you land on a BACK SEAT after crashing through a windshield??? Did he slide to a stop?? Or do reporters not bother to read what they have written any more


9 posted on 09/01/2010 9:26:16 AM PDT by Hieronymus (It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged. --G.K. Chesterton)
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I wonder if he remembers anything about what he was thinking during the fall? Did his life really flash in front of him?


10 posted on 09/01/2010 9:26:51 AM PDT by stuartcr (Nancy Pelosi-Super MILF.................................Moron I'd Like to Forget)
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To: JoeProBono

New Yorkers jumping out of windows. Now what does THAT remind you of? 1929 perhaps?

Wonder if he was a day trader?


11 posted on 09/01/2010 9:29:42 AM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: JoeProBono

40 stories?


12 posted on 09/01/2010 9:30:02 AM PDT by sargon (I don't like the sound of these "boncentration bamps")
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To: stuartcr

>what he was thinking during the fall?

I’m still OK....I’m still OK....I’m


13 posted on 09/01/2010 9:30:06 AM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet - Visualize)
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To: JoeProBono

This is likely the only way to fit an adult in the back seat of a Dodge Charger.....


14 posted on 09/01/2010 9:30:35 AM PDT by G Larry (Democrats: expediting the Destruction of America, before they lose power...)
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To: stuartcr

“...Did his life really flash in front of him?”

Ya. And he was driving a Dodge...


15 posted on 09/01/2010 9:31:20 AM PDT by Leo Farnsworth (I'm really not Leo Farnsworth.)
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Yesterday this was reported as 39 stories. Which is it? Someone is exaggerating!! /sarcasm


16 posted on 09/01/2010 9:31:32 AM PDT by TommyDale (Independent - I already left the GOP because they were too liberal)
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To: Leo Farnsworth

...from the back seat


17 posted on 09/01/2010 9:32:30 AM PDT by stuartcr (Nancy Pelosi-Super MILF.................................Moron I'd Like to Forget)
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To: stuartcr
I wonder if he remembers anything about what he was thinking during the fall?

So far, so good. So far, so good. So far, so good. So far, so good. So far, so good. So far, so good. Damn, that hurts!

18 posted on 09/01/2010 9:33:04 AM PDT by VRWCmember ("All men make mistakes ... married men find out about them sooner" - Red Skelton)
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To: JoeProBono

He ruined a pretty nice car.


19 posted on 09/01/2010 9:33:51 AM PDT by VRWCmember ("All men make mistakes ... married men find out about them sooner" - Red Skelton)
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To: Hieronymus

The picture clearly shows he went through the back window.


20 posted on 09/01/2010 9:34:26 AM PDT by TommyDale (Independent - I already left the GOP because they were too liberal)
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