Teen falls 6 stories, walks away

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A teenager fell six stories from a hotel balcony but walked away with just bruises and scrapes.

Matthew Savage, 17, was reaching up to a balcony one floor above to grab a bathing suit that had fluttered down from the 11th floor when he tumbled over the railing Friday.

The teen, from Gainesville, Ga., hit other balconies on his way down and slammed onto a slanted rooftop, then slid into bushes.

"I just closed my eyes," Savage said, nursing scrapes and bruises on his back and legs.

After landing in the bushes, he got up and started walking back to his room. But paramedics strapped him to a board and flew him to a hospital, where tests showed he was fine.

"This was a 'God is real' event," his sister, Mandy Baker, said.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070806/ap_on_re_us/odd_six_story_fall;_ylt=AjpjmE7MTcPDYAcTO1iB2sis0N UE

[turtleande]

[quote author=daybreaksdisdain link=topic=9206.msg486049#msg486049 date=1186423392]

"This was a 'God is real' event," his sister, Mandy Baker, said.

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and after catching Matthew, he ducked into the nearest phonebooth to change back into normal street clothes.

[daybreaksdisdain]

God apparently did not like the handstand girl...

[turtleande]

[quote author=daybreaksdisdain link=topic=9206.msg486081#msg486081 date=1186424682]
God apparently did not like the handstand girl...
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God hates show-offs.

[daybreaksdisdain]

[quote author=turtlenads link=topic=9206.msg486089#msg486089 date=1186424839]
God hates show-offs.


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Good point.