April 6, 2007
Saved By a Giant Pile of Crap
Stumble it!In further news of Chinese people falling from multi-story buildings (following the murder suspect hosed from an eighth-floor window), a woman in Nanjing survived a plunge from a sixth-floor balcony because she landed on a fortuitously placed gooey pile of excrement.
The incident, which makes us consider the blurry line between ‘really lucky’ and ‘really unlucky’, happened as the woman was hanging out washing on the balcony in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, according to reports in the local media.
The Kuaibao newspaper reported that, at the same time as she was hanging out the washing, workers were emptying the building’s septic tanks. The reports suggest that the septic tanks had not been emptied for a long time, and the building frequently had blocked pipes.
As a result of the septic tank cleaning, there was a 20cm thick layer of human waste waiting to cushion the woman’s fall after she toppled off the balcony. She only suffered slight injuries.
The question of why she was hanging out washing directly above an eight inch deep filth-slick, with all its associated smells, is not addressed in the reports.
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