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State Chapters => Texas => Topic started by: Ghost Bear on September 10, 2016, 02:52:38 am
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Man drives off parking garage, manages to walk away (http://kxan.com/2016/09/09/vehicle-dangles-from-parking-garage-in-downtown-austin/)
AUSTIN (KXAN) — The Austin Fire Department says it is a miracle a young man survived after driving off the top floor of a nine story parking garage in downtown Austin Friday afternoon.
Austin police said the 24-year-old went off the edge just before 2:40 p.m. at the Littlefield Garage at the corner of Congress Avenue and East Sixth Street. AFD Battalion Chief Palmer Buck said the driver was pulling into a parking spot at a slow rate of speed when his car would not stop.
The Toyota 4Runner went through the wire guides and flipped end over end. One of the wires wrapped around one of the wheels and held the 5,000-pound SUV in mid-air along the side of the garage.
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They decided in the heat of the moment, getting the driver out was the best thing to do.
“We unbuckled the seat belt, and I took one arm and then he kind of swung his legs over to the side and there was a tiny little ledge there right on the other side of the barrier,” said Cayson. “He managed to plant his feet on that and I picked him up.”
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Much more, including pics and video of the driver crawling out of the car, at the link: http://kxan.com/2016/09/09/vehicle-dangles-from-parking-garage-in-downtown-austin/ (http://kxan.com/2016/09/09/vehicle-dangles-from-parking-garage-in-downtown-austin/)
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Wow!
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When it's your time, it's your time...
And when it's not, it's not...
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Sign him up for Naval aviation. Looks like he can catch the No. 3 wire...
Not his time. Wow.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_4iQDYDVNo