NYC Jumper Saved by Trash Uncollected Since Storm

[SecularMotion]

Source: Associated Press

NEW YORK (AP) — Authorities in New York City say a man who tried to jump to his death from his ninth floor apartment was saved by a heap of trash bags that had gone uncollected since last week's blizzard.

Fire officials say the 26-year-old was taken to Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan shortly after noon on Sunday. He was listed in critical but stable condition.

His aunt, Katharina Capatos, tells the New York Post it was lucky the city had the snow and hadn't cleared the garbage.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2011/01/03/us/AP-US-Plunge-Trash-Heap.html?_r=1&ref=us

[plain1]

1. Bet his new thing will be hip-hop eom

[slackmaster]

2. Sarah Sylvia Cynthia Stout, a poem by Shel Silverstein

Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout
Would not take the garbage out!
She'd scour the pots and scrape the pans,
Candy the yams and spice the hams,
And though her daddy would scream and shout,
She simply would not take the garbage out.
And so it piled up to the ceilings:
Coffee grounds, potato peelings,
Brown bananas, rotten peas,
Chunks of sour cottage cheese.
It filled the can, it covered the floor,
It cracked the window and blocked the door
With bacon rinds and chicken bones,
Drippy ends of ice cream cones,
Prune pits, peach pits, orange peel,
Gloppy glumps of cold oatmeal,
Pizza crusts and withered greens,
Soggy beans and tangerines,
Crusts of black burned buttered toast,
Gristly bits of beefy roasts. . .
The garbage rolled on down the hall,
It raised the roof, it broke the wall. . .
Greasy napkins, cookie crumbs,
Globs of gooey bubble gum,
Cellophane from green baloney,
Rubbery blubbery macaroni,
Peanut butter, caked and dry,
Curdled milk and crusts of pie,
Moldy melons, dried-up mustard,
Eggshells mixed with lemon custard,
Cold french fries and rancid meat,
Yellow lumps of Cream of Wheat.
At last the garbage reached so high
That it finally touched the sky.
And all the neighbors moved away,
And none of her friends would come to play.
And finally Sarah Cynthia Stout said,
"OK, I'll take the garbage out!"
But then, of course, it was too late. . .
The garbage reached across the state,
From New York to the Golden Gate.
And there, in the garbage she did hate,
Poor Sarah met an awful fate,
That I cannot now relate
Because the hour is much too late.
But children, remember Sarah Stout
And always take the garbage out!

Shel Silverstein, 1974

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17. Nice

[Donnachaidh]

3. I dunno, but if I had tried to commit suicide and FAILED

I can only imagine how depressed I would be when I woke up. :shrug:

[progressoid]

4. ...

I know I shouldn't laugh (because I know someone who failed) but that was kinda funny.

[Donnachaidh]

6. that's what struck me as well

It's that lol -- aww type of laugh reserved for train wrecks, etc. Hope he gets the help to be able to giggle about it years from now.

[The Backlash Cometh]

5. He's just a baby.

Hopefully he'll get the help he needs.

[Donnachaidh]

7. agreed. n/t

[Bennyboy]

11. A Suicide Chump!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4cjNUgZFr0

make sure you get it right the first time, cuz nothin's worse than a suicide chump!

[BobbyBoring]

14. Especially

If you woke up in Belvue~

[starroute]

16. Maybe not -- it could be cathartic

A friend of mine once coincided in me that in high school she'd tried to kill herself by ingesting most of a bottle of aspirin. Instead, she just slept for twelve hours and woke up feeling much happier.

[wilt the stilt]

8. Press release- Bloomberg saves resident from suicide

In a well thought out plan Mayor Bloomberg's actions on dealing with the blizzard has resulted in saving a young man's life.

[nyy1998]

12. lmao, this story has so much irony involved nt

[mbperrin]

9. See? Those who insist on government doing things are death panels!

If government had done what they're supposed to, this young man would be dead! Death panels, I say!

[Bonhomme Richard]

10. If it wasn't for bad luck he wouldn't have any luck at all. n/t

[TygrBright]

13. Dang... there goes another irony meter! n/t

[formercia]

15. Still alive, supposed to die,

The bill collectors will be hounding him for the rest of his life to pay his hospital bill.

This is called 'waking up in Hell.'

Probably a Day Trader who went long on Municipal Bonds.