Drunk Russian Survives 8-Floor Fall Onto Car.

[dipsydoodle]

KEMEROVO, October 11 (RIA Novosti) – An intoxicated Russian man survived a fall from an eighth-floor balcony when he landed on a car, Siberian police said Friday.

Police said the 23-year-old resident of Russia’s coal mining Kemerovo Region in western Siberia was drunk and had argued with his girlfriend while partying with his friends in an eighth-floor apartment.

“According to the man, he simply lost his balance while out on the balcony and fell off onto a Toyota vehicle parked below,” the region’s police said in a statement.

“Despite falling from such a height, the man survived and was even able to get to his feet unaided after the fall,” the statement said.

http://en.ria.ru/russia/20131011/184068648/Drunk-Russian-Survives-8-Floor-Fall-Onto-Car.html

DO NOT attempt to duplicate this at home.

[sharp_stick]

1. One of the benefits of being hammered

Is the inability to know that you should not be relaxed.

Many years ago I was a volunteer rural ambulance driver. We got a call about a drunk that had gone off the road instead of around the curve at high speed. When we got there we could see the lights of the car out in the field and at least 4 or 5 impact sites where the car had rolled. The tow truck driver said the car was flipping end over end and estimated he hit the ditch at about 75 or 89 mph.

We pulled the stretcher out of the back and tossed a body bag on it because we knew what to expect.

On the way out into the field I heard a quiet but definite groan about 50 feet from the car. The guy was thrown from the car after the third or fourth flip and passed out in the field. He didn't have a single broken bone and according to the cops the next day had no idea he'd even gotten in his car.

[Xyzse]

2. I am going to quote someone who said "God Loves Drunks, Fools and Little Children"

Yep...

[CherokeeDem]

3. Years ago....

in Augusta, GA, a car went over a bridge onto one of the tree lined residential streets near downtown. My uncle lived in the nearest house and ran outside when he heard the wreck. He and a neighbor expected to find the driver dead... but he was alive and talking in the horrid wreckage of his car. My uncle said he reeked of alcohol and had a nearly empty bottle on the seat next to him. A police officer who rolled on the accident told my uncle... drunks don't know to be scared, they are relaxed and seem to absorb the impact better than sober people, who tense up. My uncle talked about this wreck for years.

[Xyzse]

4. I guess, that is one of the positives of fighting derunk.

[jakeXT]

6. Does it have to be Toyota ?

[MiddleFingerMom]

7. When I was in the Army in Germany, a bunch of us were in one of the mechanics' barracks rooms...

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...on the second floor, passing around a coupla bottles of Jack Daniels. When one got to this big mechanic
sitting on the windowsill, it was nearly empty. As he tilted his head way back to get that last ounce or so,
the rest of his body followed and we watched him roll backwards out of the window. We rushed over,
expecting to see him broken-necked on the cobblestones below. He had landed on a canvas Jeep trailer
parked directly below the window and simply bounced or slid off -- we believed landing on his feet.
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He waved to us, laughing... and stumbled off in the direction of the EM Club, where we found him, unfazed
and unharmed, when we ran out of Jack.
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[Goalie49009]

8. Awww man it pays to read the whole post people ...I tried that a few hours ago and broke

my arm, leg, and collar bone ....1) I was sober (big mistake) and 2) I didn't read the sentence under the blue link DAMNIT!! that is all.

[bluesbassman]

9. With apologies to Rick James: Vodka's a helluva drug.