{"id":113,"date":"2012-05-22T03:02:09","date_gmt":"2012-05-22T03:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/?p=113"},"modified":"2012-05-22T03:02:09","modified_gmt":"2012-05-22T03:02:09","slug":"man-survives-180-foot-plunge-down-niagara-falls-in-apparent-suicide-attempt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2012\/05\/22\/man-survives-180-foot-plunge-down-niagara-falls-in-apparent-suicide-attempt\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Survives 180-Foot Plunge Down Niagara Falls in Apparent Suicide Attempt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pixel.nymag.com\/imgs\/daily\/intel\/2012\/05\/21\/21_NiagaraFalls.o.jpg\/a_190x190.jpg?w=525\"><\/p>\n<p>A man <span>survived <\/span>a plunge of at least 180 feet down Niagara Falls on Monday after climbing over a rail and &#8220;deliberately jumping&#8221; into the Niagara River. <span>&#8220;Based on witness statements and surveillance video, it doesn&#8217;t appear in any way, shape, or form that this was anything other than a suicide attempt,&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesunion.com\/news\/article\/Man-survives-180-foot-plunge-over-Niagara-Falls-3574243.php\">said<\/a> Niagara Parks Police Sergeant<span> <\/span><\/span>Chris Gallagher<span><span>. <\/span><\/span><span><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Rescuers reached the man at the bottom of the Horseshoe <span>Falls<\/span> on the Canadian side of the river about two hours after the jump. <span><span><span>Members of the fire department rappelled down slick<span>, steep shale and boulders and pulled him up the cliff <span><span><span><span>in a basket<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>. Estimated to be in his thirties or forties, the man somehow managed to swim to the shore despite suffering<span><span> chest injuries, including broken ribs and a collapsed lung. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesunion.com\/news\/article\/Man-survives-180-foot-plunge-over-Niagara-Falls-3574243.php\">Associated Press<\/a>, the man is the only the third person known to survive a plunge over the falls without a safety\u00c2\u00a0device.<\/span><span><span><span><\/span> After luck like that, this man has some serious living to do.<br \/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read more posts by <a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/author\/brett%20smiley\">Brett Smiley<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Filed Under:<br \/>\n          <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vulture.com\/news\/niagara-falls\" title=\"Read all posts tagged niagara falls\">niagara falls<\/a><br \/>\n            <\/strong>,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vulture.com\/news\/sad-things-that-turn-into-happy-things\" title=\"Read all posts tagged sad things that turn into happy things\">sad things that turn into happy things<\/a>\n            <\/p>\n<p>via Daily Intel <a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/daily\/intel\/2012\/05\/man-survives-180-foot-plunge-down-niagara-falls.html\">http:\/\/nymag.com\/daily\/intel\/2012\/05\/man-survives-180-foot-plunge-down-niagara-falls.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man survived a plunge of at least 180 feet down Niagara Falls on Monday after climbing over a rail and &#8220;deliberately jumping&#8221; into the Niagara River. &#8220;Based on witness statements and surveillance video, it doesn&#8217;t appear in any way, shape, or form that this was anything other than a suicide attempt,&#8221; said Niagara Parks &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2012\/05\/22\/man-survives-180-foot-plunge-down-niagara-falls-in-apparent-suicide-attempt\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Man Survives 180-Foot Plunge Down Niagara Falls in Apparent Suicide Attempt&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[1037,6],"class_list":["post-113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-google-reader","tag-ifttt"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2skW4-1P","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}