US News Window washer survives 11-story fall onto moving car in S.F.

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A window washer fell screaming 11 stories from a bank building Friday morning onto a moving car, crushing its roof and sending shattered glass flying into the street, police and witnesses said.

The window washer, who was not immediately identified, suffered critical injuries, but he was conscious, police said. He was taken to San Francisco General Hospital

Witnesses described seeing a falling blue streak and the man's shadow as he fell down and then hearing a crashing sound as he hit the car and then rolled onto the ground.

"As he was coming down, he was definitely screaming," said Bianca Bahman, 31, a pre-medical student at San Francisco State University who was on her way to the gym and was on the corner where the man fell. "It all happened so quickly. It was so instantaneous."

The man was moving equipment on the roof of a bank building in the heart of San Francisco's financial district and not on a window-washing platform when he fell, San Francisco police Sgt. Danielle Newman said. The platform was on the ground at the side of the building, and cables were hanging from its sides.

Sam Hartwell, an eyewitness, told KCBS in San Francisco that he was crossing the intersection when the accident happened.

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Wow.. A lucky day for both of them.
 
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How is that a lucky day for anyone?
 
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So, this is the worst bad luck ever ?

He was lucky he didn't die
He fell onto a moving car, instead of the ground.
The driver didn't get squashed.

And we got Good-Lucky news story.
 
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He could die - it's not like he got up and walked away, he just wasn't killed immediately and now is probably sitting in some ICU waiting for his heart to stop. Meanwhile, some other guy needs to get himself a new car or spend a few grand fixing that one, which means had the guy hit the ground the driver would have probably been more 'lucky'. In fact, they both would since the guy who fell probably would have died on impact, rather than have to sit around for a week or so in critical condition waiting to die, and to top it all off the guy fucking fell off the roof of a building. There is nothing uplifting or lucky about the situation for anyone involved.
 
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But he didn't ! If you have an accident causing damage or injury to yourself. You don't think you would recover from it?
You would always die "no matter what?" Hmm So, It's time to worry about an car. Wow such a pain.!

They we're both lucky to be alive. A car Is Just a Car.
 
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Varyne you dont get it. Its a lucky day because we get entertained by the personal misfortunes of others. We now enjoy the unique experience of seeing how it looks after a useless person fell down a huge building.
 
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