Home
News
Events
Bands
Labels
Venues
Pics
MP3s
Radio Show
Reviews
Releases
Buy$tuff
Forum
Classifieds
News
Localband
Shows
Show Pics
Polls
OT Threads
Other News
Movies
VideoGames
Videos
TV
Sports
Gear
/r/
Food
New Thread
New Poll
Miscellaneous
Links
E-mail
Search
login
New site? Maybe some day.
Username:
SPAM Filter:
re-type this
(values are 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,A,B,C,D,E, or F)
Select Color
orange
orange-red
crimson
red
firebrick
dark red
green
limegreen
teal
silver
sea-green
deeppink
tomato
coral
purple
indigo
burlywood
sandy brown
sienna
chocolate
FONT
XXSmall
XSmall
Small
Medium
Large
XL
XXL
:DG:
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z
Char
†
‡
‰
♠
♣
♥
♦
‾
←
↑
→
↓
™
–
—
¡
¢
£
¤
¥
¦
§
¨
©
ª
«
¬
®
¯
°
±
²
³
´
µ
¶
·
¸
¹
º
»
¼
½
¾
¿
À
Á
Â
Ã
Ä
Å
Æ
Ç
È
É
Ê
Ë
Ì
Í
Î
Ï
Ð
Ñ
Ò
Ó
Ô
Õ
Ö
×
Ø
Ù
Ú
Û
Ü
Ý
Þ
ß
à
á
â
ã
ä
å
æ
ç
è
é
ê
ë
ì
í
î
ï
ð
ñ
ò
ó
ô
õ
ö
÷
ø
ù
ú
û
ü
ý
þ
ÿ
b
i
u
add:
url
image
video
(
?
)
Message:
UBB
enabled
. HTML
disabled
Spam Filtering
enabled
Icons: (click image to insert)
Show All
-
pop
:
post by
succubus
at 2004-04-22 13:52:56
http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/africa/04/22...south.africa.plunge.reut/index.html
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (Reuters) -- A South African man survived an 18-floor plunge from a Cape Town hotel room and was well enough to call out to amazed rescuers, police said Thursday.
Nicholas du Plooy broke both arms and a leg and also injured his neck late Tuesday after he toppled out of a 19th-floor window at the Cape Town Ritz Hotel late Tuesday.
Nearby restaurant worker Gino Del Giovine told the Cape Argus newspaper he was alerted to the accident by passers-by who burst into his business yelling "Hey, we've just seen a guy flying off the top of the Ritz!"
"I was expecting a real mess," Del Giovine told the newspaper.
Instead, he and others rushing to the scene found du Plooy had crash-landed on the roof of the hotel's ground floor reception, his fall apparently broken by metal roofing sheets.
He was conscious and speaking. "He said, 'I need help, my neck is in pain'," Del Giovine told the newspaper.
After treatment at a nearby hospital, medics pronounced du Plooy "stable, talking and fine."
Police said they believed du Plooy's plunge was accidental but would not speculate on the circumstances. "There's no foul play suspected. The guy just fell out of the window," police spokeswoman Priscilla Ndongeni said.
[
default homepage
]
[
print
][
10:15:21pm Jun 05,2024
load time 0.02574 secs/10 queries]
[
search
]
[
refresh page
]