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SKY FALL! Man tumbles off Empire State Building
New York Daily News ^ | THURSDAY, APRIL 25, 2013 | JOSEPH STEPANSKY , JOE KEMP , BRYAN CALCANO AND DANIEL BEEKMAN
Posted on Thursday, April 25, 2013 3:37:40 PM by
After 'leaping' one story security talks man out of jumping a second time to avoid death plunge.
Two tourists were taking in the sights Wednesday night, when right before their eyes a man hovered between life and death on the 85th floor of the Empire State Building Argentinians Luis Ariel Jofre and Julieta Paola Barambones said they saw the man, who had apparently already fallen one floor off an observation deck, swing his legs into the air as if he meant to drop again.
Man is rushed from Empire State Building after tumbling one story, breaking his ankle and cutting his hand.
“He was in his own world, like he was lost,” a shocked Jofre, 29, said of the 11:45 p.m. incident. “He was calm looking down, like it was nothing, but it was 80 stories high.”
Authorities say the man will be facing a trespassing charge. Security guards talked the man off the ledge, said Jofre, who added, “We’re relieved that he didn’t die.”
Luis Ariel Jofre (left) and Julieta Paola Barambones of Argentina talk to the Daily News about witnessing a man on a ledge of the Empire State Building.
FDNY officials said the man — wearing a white shirt and black pants — was transported to Bellevue Hospital as an emotionally disturbed person.
A cop at the scene said the man suffered a broken ankle and cuts to his hands and faces a trespassing charge.
The officer also said it had not been determined whether the man’s fall from the 86th floor was intentional.
