(NewsCore) - A despondent man took a leap out of the ninth-floor window of his NYC apartment Sunday afternoon but was saved when he landed on a huge pile of garbage that had gone uncollected since New York’s devastating post-Christmas blizzard, officials said. The man apparently attempted his death leap at 12:04pm local time from West 45th street, police said. The man, in his 30s, landed on his back and was taken to the Bellevue Hospital A worker at the building said the man was a resident who lived on the ninth floor. “I can’t believe the garbage broke his fall,” said astounded neighbor Ingrid Suprock, 26, who lives next door. “I guess the trash saved the guy,” she added. Trash has been piling up around the city as sanitation workers try to catch up with snow removal that has bogged down the city since the day after Christmas.
Good for the NY City Trashmen, restoring their standing with the citizens of New York after last weeks snow storm tow truck disaster, these guys needed some good plublicity. Sure the good news came because of their perpetual slacking and lack of work ethic (seriously, the snow stopped last Monday, that's 1 week exactly, you're telling me you haven't had time to collect trash yet?). And sure this can only lead to more jokes about NY being a dump or trash pit, but at the end of the day, a mans life was saved.
And if this guy does decide he wants to live he'll have one hell of a story to tell. If he doesn't? I suggested he wait until Spring when the lazy ass $70K plus paid garbage men of New York get off their asses and clean up the dump.
