Seventeen stories of stupidity

[debgeisler]

From this morning's BBC Online, comes this story out of MPLS:

An American man has survived after falling 17 floors from the window of a hotel in the US city of Minneapolis.

Joshua Hanson, 29, landed on a roof awning and suffered multiple broken bones with some internal injuries, but is expected to recover.

Mr Hanson crashed through the floor-to-ceiling window at the end of a corridor after returning to the Hyatt Regency after a night of drinking.

Hyatt says they're investigating how this could happen (and they should be...since it's a really bad idea to have easily-broken windows on the 17th floor).

I wonder how drunk this guy was.

I also wonder if sobriety will be his middle name for a good while to come.

Comments

[cakmpls.livejournal.com]

The local news report said, basically, that he ran down the hall and hit the window, breaking it and falling through. I don't know how easily broken that makes the window, but they showed a picture on the news, and it definitely broke like regular glass--sharp shards. Ick.

[timill]

Sounds like the result of a bet...

[mkillingworth.livejournal.com]

Sadly, it is truly noted in the emergency services that you can't hurt a drunk. Apparently, the alcohol relaxes them so much that they don't tense up when they realise something like that is about to happen. I've seen it played out over and over again. There is no justice.