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Title: New York Girl Falls 14 Stories, Saved by Soft Landing
Post by: Willow on August 02, 2008, 05:32:31 PM
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NEW YORK —  A 12-year-old girl who fell into a chimney on her Manhattan rooftop and plummeted down the flue for 14 stories survived almost unscathed when she landed in a pile of furnace soot — a moment of amazing grace that matches her name.

Grace Bergere, a young rock drummer, was recovering at a New York hospital on Saturday with an injured hip. But after the harrowing urban drama, she should soon be back to banging out a beat and walking around her West Village neighborhood.

A two-foot-deep pile of ash and dust may have saved Grace's life, cushioning her fall when she crashed into a basement furnace

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,396564,00.html



Best Story of the day!
Title: Re: New York Girl Falls 14 Stories, Saved by Soft Landing
Post by: Lord Undies on August 02, 2008, 05:51:22 PM
That turned out better than it could have.  What a lesson.
Title: Re: New York Girl Falls 14 Stories, Saved by Soft Landing
Post by: Ptarmigan on August 02, 2008, 06:40:27 PM
Soot saves the day. She must of beeen dirty.