Drunk guy survives fall from 15th floor

[mandrill]

Honourable mention for the Darwin Award. Drunken 20 year old was locked out of his unit on the 14th floor and decided to climb down and enter through the balcony. Didn't work out as planned...

http://news.ca.msn.com/world/man-survives-fall-from-15th-floor-in-new-zealand-1

 

[Aardvark154]

Back in the Jurasic, a drunk coed was leaning over the balustrade on the sixth story landing of the dormitory stairwell one Saturday night talking to her friends below. She leaned too far and fell the better part of seven stories to the basement. I still remember the University Fire Chief saying that the only reason she survived was because she was so intoxicated that she fell straight down, if she had been sober she would have grabbed to attempt to save herself and then would have ricocheted from side to side all the way down and would almost certainly have died.

 

[afterhours]

apparently people who are drunk "appear to have a disproportionate survival rate among free-falls of extreme distances" because they were "abnormally relaxed."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ben-sherwood/falling-man-how-a-new-yor_b_702527.html

 

[Cassini]

Works for car accidents too.

In a car accident, you want to be a drunk passenger, and you want the driver to be an off-duty paramedic.