5-year-old survives 9 story fall

by Jonathon Morgan (Subscribe to Jonathon Morgan's posts) Mar 30th 2007 11:07AM

Categories: Health & Safety

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Before I get to far into this, let's stop and think about what 9 stories up looks like. That's at least 4 times as tall as your house, if not more. For those of us who don't like heights, the mere thought of being that high off the ground is unnerving -- mostly because falling from 9 stories from almost certainly kill you. Right?

Wrong. Or, at least, it didn't kill a 5-year-old Canadian boy when he went careening over his 9th floor balcony and landed on his back in the building's grassy courtyard. (That's his imprint on the right.)

Not that he wasn't injured. In fact, it sounds like he's in pretty rough shape, with two broken legs, a broken pelvis and other internal injuries -- the legs alone had him in surgery for three hours.

But regardless, I'd agree with police, and the boy's father, that this kid is the luckiest person on the planet.

Amazing.

[via Neatorama]

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Christine 3-30-2007 @ 12:12PM

Oh man. That imprint is enough to make any parent need to throw up. Scary stuff.

Uly 3-30-2007 @ 8:39PM

How short are your houses? It's at most, three times the height of my house, and most others in this area - buildings range from three (houses) to five (apartments) stories around here.

It's probably less than that, really, because our basement has above-ground windows, and our ceilings are fairly high, especially up in the attic.

Still one lucky little boy, though.

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