Boy survives 90-foot fall.



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Five-year-old Young-Jin Kim fell nine floors from the balcony of his apartment in Hamilton, Ontario and survived! The ground was soft from recent rains, which probably saved his life. He left the imprint you see in the picture. The boy suffered two broken legs and a broken pelvis, but no life-threatening injuries. Link -via Arbroath


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Posted on March 30, 2007 at 7:41 am by Miss Cellania
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12 comments to "Boy survives 90-foot fall."

  • Sid
    March 30th, 2007 at 9:21 am

    Too bad Eric Clapton hadn’t lived in Hamilton….

  • Runa
    March 30th, 2007 at 9:30 am

    What a lucky child!
    If I fell from 90 feet I made a bigger hole… and I don’t think I would survive!

  • Jimbo
    March 30th, 2007 at 9:41 am

    If you have Firefox with Image Zoom extension, you can zoom in on that picture and make out there his nose & chin hit.

  • Mike
    March 30th, 2007 at 10:40 am

    He landed on his back, so it’s just shadows.

    Also, had he landed face-down it’s unlikely his face would have been uninjured.

    I have another shot of it, from a slightly different angle, which is much more crisp than this shot.

  • Jimbo
    March 30th, 2007 at 10:49 am

    GOT YA! Just a little April Fools humor a little early.

    Made you look! :)

  • Akiro
    March 30th, 2007 at 11:27 am

    I am sorry but I must agree with Jimbo this just is not possible. The imprint is not consistent with what a fall would leave either. The indentation for the arms should be shallower if not nonexsistent.

    I suspect April Fool’s pranksters at work.

  • ted
    March 30th, 2007 at 2:13 pm

    Don’t know if the picture is real, but it is a legitimate story.

  • liz
    March 30th, 2007 at 5:18 pm

    This was on the front page of the Toronto newspapers yesterday. Totally legit.

  • Mike
    March 30th, 2007 at 9:32 pm

    How did he break his legs if they didn’t even hit the ground?

    And what about his ribs? Are they all okay?

    :/

  • raincoaster
    April 1st, 2007 at 1:20 am

    Canadians are hard to kill. You don’t want to know how I know that…

  • Theresa
    April 1st, 2007 at 7:23 pm

    It’s not the imprint of a boy from Canada; it’s the imprint of a fairy from Derbyshire.

  • Mike
    April 2nd, 2007 at 10:24 am

    I live in Hamilton, and this was in the papers for a few days. The kid’s bike was stored on the balcony. He used it to climg high enough to look over, the bike shifted and he fell over. As the caption points out the ground was soft from rain (and from snow melt), and absorbed the impact of the hit. Anyone can ‘break’ a limb not have it shatter - it’s called ‘hairline’.

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