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Man Can't Remember 16-Floor Fall
The Indy Channel ^
| 2/21/07
| AP
Posted on 02/21/2007 12:31:10 PM PST by Abathar
MINNEAPOLIS -- A man who plunged 16 stories from a Minneapolis hotel after breaking a window says he doesn't remember the fall but knows he's lucky to have survived.
Josh Hanson, 29, of Blair, Wis., was in Minneapolis for a dart tournament at the Hyatt Regency when he fell early the morning of Jan. 20. He said he and two friends had been drinking and took a cab back to the hotel.
Hanson said he doesn't know why he took off running down the hall after the group got off the elevator on the 17th floor. He said he doesn't remember hitting the glass or falling to an awning one story above the street.
He's home now, where he is co-owner of a bar. He still favors his right leg, which was broken. And still takes pain medication. But he expects to fully recover.
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To: stumpy
If you had waited a while longer maybe the cab driver would have made it up there ;)
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posted on
02/21/2007 1:28:26 PM PST
by
RunningWolf
(2-1 Cav 1975)
To: RunningWolf
I was about the same age when I tried to walk on a limb from one pine tree to another. Heard the crack and remember hitting the first few branches on the way down.
Fell about forty or fifty feet and was knocked out briefly. I came to with my younger brother standing over me, poking me with his foot, singing "When the bough breaks the baby will fall!"
I got up and kicked his ass.
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posted on
02/21/2007 1:28:26 PM PST
by
dead
(I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
To: Abathar
Lucky the elevator didn't go all the way to the TOP floor.....
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posted on
02/21/2007 1:29:31 PM PST
by
RightResponse
(It depends on what the defamation of Islam is .....)
To: RunningWolf
Naw, good Marine training, take the high ground.
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posted on
02/21/2007 1:31:57 PM PST
by
stumpy
To: dead
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posted on
02/21/2007 1:33:11 PM PST
by
RunningWolf
(2-1 Cav 1975)
To: Abathar
He must've landed on Ted Kennedy.
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posted on
02/21/2007 1:41:04 PM PST
by
Terpin
(Missing: One very clever and insightful tagline. Reward for safe return!)
To: Abathar
Here, hold muh beer and watch this!
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posted on
02/21/2007 1:41:45 PM PST
by
calex59
To: Eaker
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posted on
02/21/2007 2:35:26 PM PST
by
pax_et_bonum
(I will always love you, Flyer.)
To: RunningWolf
I hope it wasn't an ugly tree!
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posted on
02/21/2007 5:01:13 PM PST
by
Erasmus
(Tautology: A circular argument with a radius of zero.)
To: Abathar
Doesn't remember the fall? Probably just as well!
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posted on
02/21/2007 5:02:57 PM PST
by
null and void
(Let's play 6° of global warming...)
To: Kimmers
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posted on
02/21/2007 5:03:45 PM PST
by
null and void
(Let's play 6° of global warming...)
To: Erasmus
Depends on the time of day (etc etc) who you ask.
But the general consensus is no ;)
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posted on
02/21/2007 10:07:27 PM PST
by
RunningWolf
(2-1 Cav 1975)
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