Man Can't Remember 16-Floor Fall

The Indy Channel ^ | 2/21/07 | AP

[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.

[RunningWolf]

If you had waited a while longer maybe the cab driver would have made it up there ;)

[dead]

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.

[RightResponse]

Lucky the elevator didn't go all the way to the TOP floor.....

[stumpy]

Naw, good Marine training, take the high ground.

[RunningWolf]

Oh thats to much!

[Terpin]

He must've landed on Ted Kennedy.

[calex59]

Here, hold muh beer and watch this!

[pax_et_bonum]

:-D

[Erasmus]

I hope it wasn't an ugly tree!

[null and void]

Doesn't remember the fall? Probably just as well!

[null and void]

*groan*

[RunningWolf]

Depends on the time of day (etc etc) who you ask.

But the general consensus is no ;)