NEW YORK (AP) – A New York City man who plunged 40 stories from the rooftop of an apartment building has survived after crashing onto a parked car.
Witnesses and police say 22-year-old Thomas Magill jumped from the high-rise at West 63rd Street on Tuesday. He landed in the backseat area of a Dodge Charger after crashing through the windshield. He suffered broken legs. Police say he’s in critical condition.
The car’s owner, Guy McCormack, of Old Bridge, N.J., told the Daily News he’s convinced that rosary beads he kept inside the Dodge saved Magill’s life. Police are investigating why Magill jumped from the building.
Magill isn’t the only New Yorker to survive a high-rise fall. Window washer Alcides Moreno fell 47 stories from the roof of a skyscraper in December 2007, and doctors expected him to walk again.
Rosary beads?
What if the guy isn’t Catholic? How dare the guy impose his religion on every suicide he meets.
Not the whole story. This was the General Lee, and Bo and Luke Duke were in the front seat.
Obviously it was the Dodge Charger that saved his life.
This can be interpreted 2 ways:
1. The Dodge Charger is a gas-guzzler. Obama doesn’t want people to buy gas-guzzlers. Therefore, Obama wants you to die.
2. Dodge is owned by Chrysler, which got government bail-out money from Obama. Therefore, Obama wants you to live.
McCollough,
Nice steal on the iStock Photo…you couldn’t spend the couple of bucks and purchase the image???
Lame!
oh yea the rosery beads saved his life after god pushed him off the building.. yeah that makes perfect sense..
i suppose you are off to the next glen beck “i have a delusion” /tea bagger gathering..
hallelujah
You mean those ‘overwhelmingly white’ gatherings that have roughly the same racial composition as an Obama cabinet meeting?
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/34/Obama_cabinet_meeting.jpg
OK, falling from that height, he would have at terminal velocity and heading straight down (or very nearly so). So how did he get from the windshield to the BACK seat area?
Was the car moving? If so, how fast? and how did the driver escape injury?
If not, was the car parked or stopped? Was it some sort of airbag assist?
Love to see the video… (but that’s not ghoulish, is it?)
When a guy can’t even kill himself by jumping 42 stories I don’t know if I the guy should be considered some sort of super failure who can’t do anything right or the luckiest man alive.
To be honest based on some video on myth busters I’d have thought anyone that fell this far was going to die even if they hit water but then come to think of it some people have survived some super falls that hit water feet first.
Does car insurance cover this? Collision?
It appears that it was the ‘rear’ windshield that the guy fell through.
Good thing it was a new replica style charger rather than one of the older classics of the 1960s- it would of broken my heart
Motto: Jump when you see a window of hope.