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matcom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-22-04 09:18 AM
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Man Falls Out Of 19th Floor Window - Lives
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CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - A South African man survived an 18-floor plunge from a Cape Town hotel room and was well enough to call out to amazed rescuers, police said on Thursday.

Nicholas du Plooy broke both arms and a leg and also injured his neck late on Tuesday after he toppled out of a 19th-floor window at the Cape Town Ritz Hotel late on Tuesday.

Nearby restaurant worker Gino Del Giovine told the Cape Argus newspaper he was alerted to the accident by passers-by who burst into his business yelling "Hey, we've just seen a guy flying off the top of the Ritz!"

"I was expecting a real mess," Del Giovine told the newspaper.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=573&ncid=573&e=1&u=/nm/20040422/od_nm/plunge_dc
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Supormom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-22-04 09:21 AM
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1. How do you
"just fall out of the window" 18 stories up? :shrug:
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billybob537 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-22-04 09:23 AM
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2. * "boy thats one terrible pilot"
:puke:
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RobertSeattle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-22-04 09:47 AM
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3. It's not the fall that kills you...
...It's the sudden stop.
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