Comments on: Putting Humpty to Shame: How to Have a Great Fall (and Survive)

By: Megan

Megan — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 04:10:26 +0000

@ANSAV

I live in Dallas, and there are still a couple of garages in Dallas with lifts like that for valets; the office building in which I used to work had one, and an apartment building downtown still has one, too! Lawsuits waiting to happen!

By: Darlene

Darlene — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 14:50:12 +0000

My cousin was training to be a paratrooper in the army and made several jumps in one day without incident. Then he went back to the barracks and was sitting in the window sill when he fell out and fell 2 stories…and broke his arm!

By: Seanette

Seanette — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 03:22:00 +0000

Actually, according to the Wikipedia article about her, Vesna Vulovic HAS regained the use of her legs.

By: brill

brill — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 21:26:00 +0000

When I was twelve I was running on a flight of stairs that went to our basement while carrying a king-sized comforter. Obviously, I slipped on the comforter & fell down the stairs, around the landing at the bottom, and down 3 more steps to land sideways on the last step, on my tailbone. Much pain. I had to be carried up the stairs and spent the next three days *not* walking. To this day I have issues with descending stairs too quickly.

(sorry if this is a repost; I couldn’t figure out if it had gone through)

By: brill

brill — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 21:22:00 +0000

By: greg

greg — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 21:26:00 +0000

When I was 18 I fell prolly 25 feet from a “rock wall” climb at a local climbing facility. Everything about this experience was ill advised. I myself am a Large man to say the least, at the time (6ft 312lbs), my current (for lack of a better term “girlfriend”) was very active and into mountain and wall climbing and wanted me to show interest in this love of hers….for obvious reasons I had never attempted to actually climb a wall even though I had gone with her a few times. Until one fateful day, a friendly climbing trainer convinced me that I would be able to climb one of the smaller walls, I assured him this was a bad idea, he assured me it was great idea and the perfect way to impress my current paramour, my dumb love struck 18 year old brain apparently agreed. He fitted me with an X-L harness and I started my ascent. I was able to climb surprisingly well for a man my size, before I realized it I was about 20-25 feet up the wall. I decided it far enough, I contacted my climb instructor on the ground and told him I was ready to be let down and he assured me he was up to the task, well I let go of the wall and apparently my weight was a little to much for the harness or I was never harnessed in correctly, either way I started to fall so I grasped at the rope to slow my fall and apparently pinned it against my wrist. I landed square on my ass, with a nasty rope burn on my wrist. I was lucky. Fall 25 feet with a sore ass and a rope burn. Needless to say the girl I was there with was more embarrassed/sympathetic than proud or impressed so we promptly left the facility and out of sympathy she treated me to a home cooked meal, so all in all to a fat man I guess the fall was worth it.

By: Dana

Dana — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 05:15:00 +0000

in response to the girl who asked when has humpty dumpty ever been refered to as an egg.

the original humpty dumpty nursery rhyme was in fact a riddle endin in a question that children had to figure out to answer: humpty dumpty sat on a wall / humpty dumpty had a great fall / and all the kings horses and all the kings men couldn’t put humpty together again. who/what is humpty dumpty?

By: jmanley

jmanley — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 21:37:00 +0000

What about when John Rambo fell through all those pine trees in the canyon when he was surrounded by all of those sheriff’s deputies?

By: dara

dara — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 22:33:00 +0000

One of my dad’s farmhands took a part time job in construction, and, well, he liked to drink. Went to work drunk, fell off a three-story building and landed on a piece of cemented vertical rebar. It went through his chest/ shoulder, I think, before going through his head and OUT HIS EYE SOCKET. Luckily nothing major was punctured, even the eye ball, and he survived fine– he can even see!

By: Alec

Alec — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 22:07:58 +0000

Are we forgetting about Jake Brown? He fell 40+ feet at the 2007 X-Games and walked away. His shoes flew off when he hit, it was pretty amazing. Check out the YouTube video.
And then this year Danny Way clipped his feet on the lip of the rail and fell 20 feet. He kept competing and took 2nd place even with the injury. He had to fight his way past the doctors to get on the ramp again.