A man who jumped from a ninth-floor apartment window survived the fall because he landed atop a mountain of trash bags that had been piling up since the Dec. 26 blizzard in New York. The guy had been released from a psych ward last Wednesday after spending about a month there following a nervous breakdown.
(New York Post)
That stinks!
Posted by: Jamie | Monday, January 03, 2011 at 06:40 AM
Poor guy. You couldn't pay me to live in NYC.
Posted by: KDP | Monday, January 03, 2011 at 06:53 AM
He must now accept his destiny to be King of that Trashpile. Viola, his life has meaning, at least until Mt Trashmore is taken away.
Posted by: The_Overdog | Monday, January 03, 2011 at 06:58 AM
Probably healthier if he would have hit the ground.
Posted by: RockyMtnMac | Monday, January 03, 2011 at 07:24 AM
The good Lord looks after fools and idiots, and this poor sod probably qualifies as both.
Posted by: Phranqlin | Monday, January 03, 2011 at 07:26 AM
Started depressed, ended down in the dumps.
Posted by: jj | Monday, January 03, 2011 at 07:49 AM
I'm betting he looked out his window and saw this pile of garbage bags down on the sidewalk...and thought..."I bet I can do this, I saw it on a cartoon once".
Posted by: Chrysos | Monday, January 03, 2011 at 09:02 AM
Jumper 'saved' by trash.
No, he wasn't 'saved'. The trash SPOILED his jump.
Posted by: Tom Weidermeijer | Monday, January 03, 2011 at 09:32 AM
The good lord send the blizzard to save this man. I know it. Who cares about the people who got killed during the blizzard.
Posted by: twerp | Monday, January 03, 2011 at 09:50 AM
It's Bloomberg's fault this guy is alive.
Posted by: many | Monday, January 03, 2011 at 12:32 PM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Life_Is_Rubbish
Posted by: JESCIE | Monday, January 03, 2011 at 02:39 PM
Jumped into a pile of garbage...
and came out smelling like...
Garbage
Posted by: Krash | Monday, January 03, 2011 at 03:07 PM
Judging by the remarks here, you all have no clue as to why someone could want to end his or her life. Really not nice to make snide comments on how the trash spoiled his jump.
Have any of you ever had a huge amount of problems with no apparent way out (from your view) and it keeps on getting worse? The pain grows until you feel the only way to end the pain and the problems is to kill yourself. Poor guy would not have done it if he could read some of the dumb comments here because obviously no one would miss him out of a few (?) relatives and he would be the butt of jokes about his end.
Posted by: Tequila Joe | Tuesday, January 04, 2011 at 04:31 AM
Yep, that's me ...nothing better to do at this time than be a totally obtuse, insensitively snide asshole of the first water.
Posted by: Krash | Tuesday, January 04, 2011 at 06:00 AM
The lazy unions will be prompting this in the next work force slow down.
See if it wasnt for the unions lack of action in cleaning the streets of snow.The garbage bags would not have been there and I am sure it would have taken them days to clean up the side walk from the body hitting the ground.
I dont see a use for the unions anymore.
Posted by: AngrySockMonkey | Tuesday, January 04, 2011 at 06:07 AM
Take a few more shots of Cuervo there, Joe. You'll feel better for it... and we won't have to listen to you whining like a menopausal cow. Unless, God help us, you're maudlin drunk. Then I might just want to shoot myself.
Posted by: Pile of Pooh | Tuesday, January 04, 2011 at 08:27 AM
Just got back from a long boozy weekend in the City. Trash piled head high everywhere, rat ran across my foot while strolling by city hall...Blizzard or no, some things are never change.
Posted by: BlueMary | Tuesday, January 04, 2011 at 08:39 AM
Coulda been worse. Guy gets knocked out, trash is picked up on time(haha), compactor works.
Posted by: The Hermit | Tuesday, January 04, 2011 at 07:24 PM