Man falls 47 stories and survives

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http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/01/03/skyscraper.fall.survivor.ap/index.html

Doctors say they have never seen anything like it: A window washer who fell 47 stories from the roof of a Manhattan skyscraper is now awake, talking to his family and expected to walk again.

Alcides Moreno, 37, plummeted almost 500 feet in a December 7 scaffolding collapse that killed his brother.

Somehow, Moreno lived, and doctors at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center announced Thursday that his recovery has been astonishing.

He has movement in all his limbs. He is breathing on his own. And on Christmas Day, he opened his mouth and spoke for the first time since the accident.
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Has this been posted before, because I really don't know..

EDIT: Okay, so it's new, a great tragedy has befallen on this guy, sad.
 
he's a saiyan...that stuff doesn't phase him. when he fully recovers he will be twice as strong.
 
I saw it on CNN.

Sucks that his brother died. :(
 
AKIRA said:
he's a saiyan...that stuff doesn't phase him. when he fully recovers he will be twice as strong.
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I saw this on the news.

I'm wondering how he could have fallen off, didn't he have safety equipment?
 
Combo breaker.


Also, hopefully he didnt fall in love with his job since his wife wont let him go back!

(its hard to come up with ones for this)
 
There was a flight attendant whose plane exploded in midair. She fell over 20,000 feet and hit snow, lived to tell the tale.
 
Jerry_111 said:
There was a flight attendant whose plane exploded in midair. She fell over 20,000 feet and hit snow, lived to tell the tale.
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If this is true, then I would like to see some links.:p
 
Did someone said 47? I smell a murder attempt.
 
Meh, Lock did the same thing in Lost. Show-off.
 
Jerry_111 said:
There was a flight attendant whose plane exploded in midair. She fell over 20,000 feet and hit snow, lived to tell the tale.
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humans are retarded lol. Person falls 47 ft and dies, then next thing you know some god damn flight attendant falls 20,000ft and lives? WHILE the plane BLEW UP?!? lol explain how that works.

seriously i hope sometime in the future we won't be composed with just bones and muscle but some sort of metal in our bodies so we have like a super strong skeletal system so we can all survive 20,000ft drops.
 
JNightshade said:
He's a cat! :shh:
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Lol'd a bit. Shut up.

This guy is awesome. Though I hate it when people survive in things like this and then say "It just wasn't my time! Someone likes me up there, man!". No you are just a lucky bastard, Sir.
 
Phobie said:
Lol'd a bit. Shut up.

This guy is awesome. Though I hate it when people survive in things like this and then say "It just wasn't my time! Someone likes me up there, man!". No you are just a lucky bastard, Sir.
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I was referring to an ancient thread about whether or not a cat could survive a fall from the Empire State Building, but you can interpret it as you wish :p
 
He wasn't freefalling.

They were both on the platform when it broke loose. His brother flew off the back and fell away from the platform, whilst he (the survivor) stayed holding on to the platform. The platform hit the ground at an angle, where a lot of the impact shock was taken by the platform itself.

Still pretty crazy, but the news articles (and this thread) make it out like he just freefalls 47 stories and hits concrete and lives.
 
Pfft, I can't see what is so impressive about that. I do that every day as my diary exercise. Believe me, it works wonders.
 
JNightshade said:
I was referring to an ancient thread about whether or not a cat could survive a fall from the Empire State Building, but you can interpret it as you wish :p
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I dunno why but something is telling me it was the Eiffel Tower...but I could be completely 100% wrong. :p
 
AKIRA said:
humans are retarded lol. Person falls 47 ft and dies, then next thing you know some god damn flight attendant falls 20,000ft and lives? WHILE the plane BLEW UP?!? lol explain how that works.

seriously i hope sometime in the future we won't be composed with just bones and muscle but some sort of metal in our bodies so we have like a super strong skeletal system so we can all survive 20,000ft drops.
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Not 47 feet, 47 stories. A story can be anywhere from 8-14 feet usually. At the most extreme he fell 658 feet.

Interesting fact though. People who fall 3 stories are more likely to die than not. That's only 24-42 feet.
 
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