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mlyonsd
09-01-2010, 12:03 PM
NEW YORK -- A New York City man who plunged 40 stories from the roof of an apartment building has survived after crashing onto a parked car.

Witnesses and police say 22-year-old Thomas Magill jumped from the high-rise at W.
63rd Street on Tuesday. He landed in the backseat area of a Dodge Charger after crashing through the windshield.

He suffered broken legs. Police say he's in critical condition.

The car's owner, Guy McCormack, of Old Bridge, N.J., told the New York Daily News he's convinced that rosary beads he kept inside the Dodge saved Magill's life.

Police are investigating why Magill jumped from the building.

Magill isn't the only New Yorker to survive a high-rise fall. Window washer Alcides Moreno survived a fall of 47 stories from the roof of a skyscraper in December 2007.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/09/01/nyc-man-survives-story-plunge-apartment-rooftop/

Saulbadguy
09-01-2010, 12:04 PM
He should sue the owner of the car.

allen_kcCard
09-01-2010, 12:06 PM
You didn't save my life, you ruined my death!

seclark
09-01-2010, 12:07 PM
might as well JUMP!
go ahead and jump.

Sofa King
09-01-2010, 12:07 PM
dear god, make me a bird, so i can fly far far away from here.

Lonewolf Ed
09-01-2010, 12:09 PM
So, do we file this under Miracles or Epic Fail? :hmmm:

BigRichard
09-01-2010, 12:11 PM
I am wondering if the guy who fell 47 stories and lived landed on some rosary beads? I hate when people say shit like that. I would guess it was the physics of the entire situation that kept him from dying.

Dante84
09-01-2010, 12:17 PM
Collective Soul, Third Eye Blind, and Tom Petty have all been there.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7TLTjqUyog

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Demonpenz
09-01-2010, 12:17 PM
His fantasy team auto picked Cassel

Donger
09-01-2010, 12:24 PM
Those rosary bleeds must have been the extra soft kind.

Fish
09-01-2010, 12:27 PM
His fantasy team auto picked Cassel

Word.

Phobia
09-01-2010, 12:30 PM
My rosary beads are better than this guy's. They prevented my car from being hit by an idiot flying off a building today.

bevischief
09-01-2010, 12:36 PM
So, do we file this under Miracles or Epic Fail? :hmmm:

Both.

Rain Man
09-01-2010, 12:42 PM
I'm trying to figure out how he went through the windshield and then landed in the back seat. Maybe the rosary beads grabbed him and converted some of his vertical momentum to horizontal momentum.

RustShack
09-01-2010, 12:42 PM
Soo... how did he go throw the windshield and land in the backseat?

noa
09-01-2010, 12:46 PM
Here's a picture...crappy because it's from a cell phone camera. He definitely didn't go through the windshield.

http://i54.tinypic.com/oggojq.jpg

Rain Man
09-01-2010, 12:47 PM
Soo... how did he go throw the windshield and land in the backseat?

I believe my rosary theory is the prevailing theory at the moment.

Rain Man
09-01-2010, 12:49 PM
Here's a picture...crappy because it's from a cell phone camera. He definitely didn't go through the windshield.


That's a good theory, too.

mlyonsd
09-01-2010, 12:52 PM
Update: Due to an AP error, NewsFeed reported Magill's fall as 40 stories, when he in fact fell 39 stories

Never mind people, nothing to see here....it was only 39 stories, not 40.

seclark
09-01-2010, 12:54 PM
Here's a picture...crappy because it's from a cell phone camera. He definitely didn't go through the windshield.

http://i54.tinypic.com/oggojq.jpg

he no doubt read the "stop" lettering on the road next to the car.
sec

cdcox
09-01-2010, 12:54 PM
Chrysler products are the best! /HemiEd

BigCatDaddy
09-01-2010, 12:55 PM
Soo... how did he go throw the windshield and land in the backseat?

I believe they are called rear windshields by some.

Donger
09-01-2010, 12:56 PM
I believe they are called rear windshields by some.

Only if one is driving backwards. And, it's windscreens.

mlyonsd
09-01-2010, 01:02 PM
Can you imagine, just sitting there with the window down listening to the radio when all of a sudden a guy hits your car at 100+?

BigCatDaddy
09-01-2010, 01:07 PM
Only if one is driving backwards. And, it's windscreens.

EHow disagrees. http://www.ehow.com/rear-windshield/

Otter
09-01-2010, 01:08 PM
I'll just attach this one to this thread:

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-20015269-504083.html

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (CBS/AP/KBAK) Dr. Jacquelyn Kotarac, a woman who apparently tried to force her way into her "on-again, off-again" boyfriend's home by sliding down the chimney, died of mechanical asphyxia, according to autopsy results released Tuesday.

Kotarac's decomposing body was found in the chimney three days after the attempt, reportedly by someone house-sitting at the address.

According to police, the 49-year-old woman first tried to get into the house with a shovel, then climbed a ladder to the roof last Wednesday night, removed the chimney cap and slid feet first down the flue.

It is unknown if Kotarac was drunk when she apparently tried to force her way into her boyfriend's home, but Bakersfield police Sgt. Mary DeGeare said Kotarac had been drinking earlier that evening at a restaurant.

While she was trying to break in, the man she was pursuing escaped unnoticed from another exit "to avoid a confrontation," authorities said.

DeGeare said the two were in an "on-again, off-again" relationship.

The man's identity was not revealed by police, but the man who resides in the home is William Moodie, 58.

"She made an unbelievable error in judgment and nobody understands why, and unfortunately she's passed away," Moodie told The Associated Press. "She had her issues - she had her demons - but I never lost my respect for her."

Reached by telephone, Moodie did not dispute the police's characterization of his relationship with Kotarac. He would not comment on the circumstances that led to her death, saying it was more important to focus on the good she did in life.

Moodie, who runs an engineering consulting firm, said Kotarac was a superb internist who often provided service and medication free of charge to her patients.

The body was found Saturday night, by the house-sitter, who was at the house to care for the homeowner's fish. The person smelled the woman's body and found her stuck about 2 feet above the interior opening of the fireplace.

Firefighters spent five hours late Saturday dismantling the chimney and flue from outside the home to extract Kotarac's body, DeGeare said.

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I would have thought someone could last in a chimney, as long as there wasn't a fire started, for more than three days.

Fumblerooski
09-01-2010, 01:16 PM
might as well JUMP!
go ahead and jump.

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Rain Man
09-01-2010, 01:17 PM
Update: Due to an AP error, NewsFeed reported Magill's fall as 40 stories, when he in fact fell 39 stories

Never mind people, nothing to see here....it was only 39 stories, not 40.


That pretty much ruins it for me.

Dave Lane
09-01-2010, 01:18 PM
The car's owner, Guy McCormack, of Old Bridge, N.J., told the New York Daily News he's convinced that rosary beads he kept inside the Dodge saved Magill's life.

Yeah that's the ticket :)

Nothing like some 49 cent plastic beads to break your fall...

Rain Man
09-01-2010, 01:21 PM
DeGeare said the two were in an "on-again, off-again" relationship.



My guess is that it's "off again".

blaise
09-01-2010, 01:21 PM
I bet his wife shows up at the hospital and says, "Just like always. You can't do anything right."

Taco John
09-01-2010, 01:24 PM
I don't think collision insurance covers this.

Inspector
09-01-2010, 03:07 PM
I'll just attach this one to this thread:

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-20015269-504083.html

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (CBS/AP/KBAK) Dr. Jacquelyn Kotarac, a woman who apparently tried to force her way into her "on-again, off-again" boyfriend's home by sliding down the chimney, died of mechanical asphyxia, according to autopsy results released Tuesday.

Kotarac's decomposing body was found in the chimney three days after the attempt, reportedly by someone house-sitting at the address.

According to police, the 49-year-old woman first tried to get into the house with a shovel, then climbed a ladder to the roof last Wednesday night, removed the chimney cap and slid feet first down the flue.

It is unknown if Kotarac was drunk when she apparently tried to force her way into her boyfriend's home, but Bakersfield police Sgt. Mary DeGeare said Kotarac had been drinking earlier that evening at a restaurant.

While she was trying to break in, the man she was pursuing escaped unnoticed from another exit "to avoid a confrontation," authorities said.

DeGeare said the two were in an "on-again, off-again" relationship.

The man's identity was not revealed by police, but the man who resides in the home is William Moodie, 58.

"She made an unbelievable error in judgment and nobody understands why, and unfortunately she's passed away," Moodie told The Associated Press. "She had her issues - she had her demons - but I never lost my respect for her."

Reached by telephone, Moodie did not dispute the police's characterization of his relationship with Kotarac. He would not comment on the circumstances that led to her death, saying it was more important to focus on the good she did in life.

Moodie, who runs an engineering consulting firm, said Kotarac was a superb internist who often provided service and medication free of charge to her patients.

The body was found Saturday night, by the house-sitter, who was at the house to care for the homeowner's fish. The person smelled the woman's body and found her stuck about 2 feet above the interior opening of the fireplace.

Firefighters spent five hours late Saturday dismantling the chimney and flue from outside the home to extract Kotarac's body, DeGeare said.

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I would have thought someone could last in a chimney, as long as there wasn't a fire started, for more than three days.

So...this lady was fatter than Santa claus?

blaise
09-01-2010, 03:08 PM
So...this lady was fatter than Santa claus?

She was a ho ho ho.

CoMoChief
09-01-2010, 03:40 PM
He should sue the owner of the car.

ROFL yeah no shit!!!!

CoMoChief
09-01-2010, 03:40 PM
I don't think collision insurance covers this.

It would be comp, just FYI

Demonpenz
09-01-2010, 03:46 PM
Late Hail mary comes up short. Tonight on Phil Witts broadcast of awesomeness.

threebag
09-01-2010, 07:11 PM
At least he stuck the landing.

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