Window washer survives 11-story fall onto moving car in Calif.

[airdvr 210]

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/11/21/window-washer-survives-11-story-fall-onto-moving-car-in-calif/?intcmp=latestnews

Wow!

Please don't dent the planet.

Destinations by Roxanne

[ryoder 1,590]

That was some good spotting!

"There are only three things of value: younger women, faster airplanes, and bigger crocodiles" - Arthur Jones.

[NWFlyer 2]

http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2014/11/22/miracle-or-just-plain-science-physicist-explains-why-sf-window-washer-survived-11-story-fall/

This one has an interesting explanation of the factors that likely contributed to his survival ... same basic theories that Gary Connery used to land his wingsuit.

"There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." -P.J. O'Rourke

[oldwomanc6 60]

It's like something out of a movie.

lisa
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[riggerrob 643]

Crumple zones
it is all about crumple zones.
.. it is the same reason DZs install swoop ponds

... to gradually decelerate people falling out of the sky.

[lawrocket 3]

I'm scratching my head that a car was moving in San Francisco. That place is gridlocked as all hell. All the time.

My wife is hotter than your wife.

[Andy9o8 2]

riggerrob

Crumple zones
it is all about crumple zones.
.. it is the same reason DZs install swoop ponds

... to gradually decelerate people falling out of the sky.

of course, there are limits. back in the 50's a woman jumped off the 86th floor observation deck of the empire state building and landed on the roof of a cab. she was closer to terminal, though, which in her case proved terminal.

[BillyVance 35]

Andy9o8

***Crumple zones
it is all about crumple zones.
.. it is the same reason DZs install swoop ponds

... to gradually decelerate people falling out of the sky.

of course, there are limits. back in the 50's a woman jumped off the 86th floor observation deck of the empire state building and landed on the roof of a cab. she was closer to terminal, though, which in her case proved terminal.

Plus, back in those days, cars were built like fucking tanks.

"Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people." - SIX TIME National Champion coach Nick Saban

[ryoder 1,590]

Andy9o8

...back in the 50's a woman jumped off the 86th floor observation deck of the empire state building and landed on the roof of a cab. she was closer to terminal, though, which in her case proved terminal.

Warning: Article has photo of the corpse:
http://kottke.org/08/07/the-most-beautiful-suicide

"There are only three things of value: younger women, faster airplanes, and bigger crocodiles" - Arthur Jones.

[BillyVance 35]

ryoder

***...back in the 50's a woman jumped off the 86th floor observation deck of the empire state building and landed on the roof of a cab. she was closer to terminal, though, which in her case proved terminal.

Warning: Article has photo of the corpse:
http://kottke.org/08/07/the-most-beautiful-suicide

Wonder if she had an open-casket funeral?

"Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people." - SIX TIME National Champion coach Nick Saban

[oldwomanc6 60]

She was cremated, and there was no funeral.

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