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Blithering Idiot Man Survives Historic Plunge Over Niagara
NIAGARA FALLS, Ontario - A man survived a plunge over Niagara Falls with only the clothes on his back, witnesses said, the first person known to have done it and lived. Witnesses described seeing the man float by Monday in the swift Niagara River, go headfirst over the churning 180-foot waterfall and then pull himself out of the water onto rocks below. ``He just looked calm. He just was gliding by so fast. I was in shock really that I saw a person go by,’’ Brenda McMullen told WIVB-TV in Buffalo. ``I saw him disappear over the edge of the falls,’’ McMullen’s husband, Terry McMullen, said. The Columbus, Ohio, tourists snapped photographs afterward, showing the man dressed in street clothes, apparently lying on the shoreline at the base of the Canadian Horseshoe Falls.
Of course he was in street clothes, it was too cold for a swim suit.
Only one other person known to have survived a plunge over the Canadian falls without a barrel or other contraption: a 7-year-old boy wearing a life preserver who had been thrown into the water in a 1960 boating accident. No one has ever survived a trip over the narrower and rockier American falls.
Yar! Our falls are tougher! Bwahahaha!
Video shown by the Buffalo television station showed officers walking from the scene with a shirtless man in handcuffs and a blanket covering his face. ``At this point, there does not appear to be any evidence of foul play,’’ the Niagara Parks Police said in written statement. Officers would not release the man’s name nor would they comment on why the man went over the Falls.
Pick one: a) suicidal b) daredevil c) stupid d) all of the above
About a dozen daredevils have taken the plunge in barrels or other protective chambers since 1901. About half have survived.
Darwinism at its finest.
Parks Police said emergency crews responded to a report of a man going over the Canadian falls around 12:45 p.m. Rescuers descended the gorge in a tourist elevator to an observation deck and reached him from there. He was taken to Greater Niagara General Hospital for medical treatment, said police. Hospital spokeswoman Marilyn Bellows said the man was in stable condition, according to the Canadian Press.
Stable? He went over the blinkin’ falls! How stable can he be?
Posted by: Steve White 2003-10-21
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