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A man plunged over the Canadian side of Niagara Falls on Monday, dropping more than 55 metres into the crashing waters below, but survived.
Only three or four people are known to have lived after being swept over the falls without a protective device.
The man, believed to be in his 30s or 40s, suffered life-threatening injuries to his chest and head, and is now being treated in a Hamilton hospital.
Witnesses told Niagara Parks Police the man climbed over a retaining wall about 10 metres above Horseshoe Falls around 10:20 a.m. and deliberately jumped into the Niagara River.
He was carried by the strong current over the falls and witnesses reported seeing him surface at the bottom, adjacent to the Journey Behind the Falls observation platform, police said in statement released Monday.
A parks police officer found the man along the rocky shoreline just as the victim collapsed in waist-high water, police said.
The Niagara Falls fire department used an aerial truck to lift the man from the gorge to a waiting ORNGE air ambulance around 12:16 p.m.
Fire department Platoon Chief Dan Orescanin said it was difficult for rescue workers to reach the man.
"It's a very difficult slope. It's a very difficult place to traverse," he said.
The man, believed to be in his 30s or 40s, was taken to a Hamilton hospital with life-threatening injuries.
The last person to go over Horseshoe Falls and survive was a 30-year-old Canadian man in March 2009.
A Michigan man survived the plunge in 2003.
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I wonder if this was a suicide attempt; I can't figure out any other good reason for leaping off a huge waterfall like that.
He must of had a absolutely splashing time!
[QUOTE=JeanLuc761;36053761]I wonder if this was a suicide attempt; I can't figure out any other good reason for leaping off a huge waterfall like that.[/QUOTE]
There is a video in the source. It says at the end it was a failed suicide attempt.
[QUOTE=alexojm;36053918]There is a video in the source. It says at the end it was a failed suicide attempt.[/QUOTE]
Ah, I missed that. Thank you sir.
[video=youtube;2lfZP8gD2vE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lfZP8gD2vE[/video]
But damn, he is pretty lucky to have survived.
Well if it was a failed suicide attempt, he will probably do what everyone else who failed suicide did and enjoy life to the fullest.
Why jump into water when we have the Grand Canyon!
[QUOTE=JeanLuc761;36053761]I wonder if this was a suicide attempt; I can't figure out any other good reason for leaping off a huge waterfall like that.[/QUOTE]
Santorum got 229 delegates, people don't need good reasons.
[QUOTE=JeanLuc761;36053761]I wonder if this was a suicide attempt; I can't figure out any other good reason for leaping off a huge waterfall like that.[/QUOTE]
"Hold my beer and watch this"
Reminds me of that guy who survived falling down Niagara Falls in a barrel but died years later by slipping on a banana peel.
I thought it was tradition to go down Niagara Falls in a barrel?
If I tried to commit sucide by going over Niagra Falls and I failed I'd be so depressed I'd kill myself, well I'd try but probably fail again.
Why the fuck wold you go to a hospital in Hamilton? You have hospitals right there in Niagra.
[QUOTE=JeanLuc761;36053761]I wonder if this was a suicide attempt; I can't figure out any other good reason for leaping off a huge waterfall like that.[/QUOTE]
He was trying to get into the Jackass team.
i guess hes pretty bad at swimming
[QUOTE=shian;36053602]The Niagara Falls fire department used an [B]aerial truck[/B] to lift the man from the gorge to a waiting ORNGE air ambulance around 12:16 p.m.[/QUOTE]
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[QUOTE=dreukrag;36054117]But damn, he is pretty lucky to have survived.[/QUOTE]Depends how you look at it, for him it would be unlucky because he was trying not to survive (if it was a suicide attempt).
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