People jumping into the water and surviving?

[Ultima]

Some dickhead in my english class was bullshitting to the whole class about how he personally knows some guy that jumped out a window and landed in the river, and came back to talk about it. What fving bullshit.

Why do people make up sh!t like this? The towers weren't build right on the very edge of the river and even if they were, the impact would still kill.

I hate that someone will use this disaster to get attention by making up crap like that...

 

[spanky]

jumped from the WTC and landed in the river? i bet this same guy also valet parks santa's sled.

 

[Amused]

The towers are some 6 to 800 yards from the water, at least. He'd have to have been the Bionic Man to have done that... or a flying squirrel.

 

[FrysInsider]

No way anyone jumping from the Twin Towers could have landed in the Hudson river. I've been down to the towers many times when I lived in NYC. It's at least 3 LONG blocks to the water.

 

[Logix]

Take a look at this picture:

http://www.spaceimaging.com/ikonos/worldtradecenter_nyc800.jpg

Show me a river within jumping distance, and I'll show you Osama bin Laden waving an American flag.

 

[Amused]

Also, terminal velocity for a human body at sea level is about 120 to 160 MPH (depending on the position of the body relative to the direction they are falling).

No way a person could survive hitting the water at some 140 miles per hour.

 

[Passions]

You guys aren't takin into factor of the blast. The blast could have propelled the person to fly into the water, a la Die Hard.

:disgust:

 

[Aihyah]

hehe did u ask the guy why ppl jump off bridges?

 

[wumpuskiller]

This story is obvious BS.

But, just as an FYI -- the towers were originally very close to the water. The only thing between the towers and the river used to be just West Street (and a few piers). The water used to be very close. All of the land to the west of West Street -- now the World Financial Center -- is land reclaimed from the Hudson River during the 70's and 80's. There is a legend that says the rubber, blow-up King Kong used in the 1976 remake of that movie is buried in the land fill that was accumulating at the time.

Even back then, it would have been impossible to survive such a fall. But it may have been possible to hit the water at least given the right initial trajectory.


Wumpus....

 

[ToBeMe]

Wumpus is correct! I actually visited there as a child for the first time in the early 70's and remembered that too! Here is a pic I found of how it looked then!............WTC

 

[TripleJ]

Isn't that a fountain and pond in the WTC Square? Maybe he did a massive belly flop into it. Bet ya his tummy was red after that! Thwack! OOOUUUUCH!!!

 

[Elledan]

At high velocities, a body falling on water will experience resistance of this water equal to the resistance of concrete. In other words, a person landing on a large body of water at about 160-200 mph will have his or her intestines neatly spread out over the water. Not a pleasant sight.

 

[gonzo2k]

<< Isn't that a fountain and pond in the WTC Square? Maybe he did a massive belly flop into it. Bet ya his tummy was red after that! Thwack! OOOUUUUCH!!! >>



Congratulations on providing this forum with one of the most idiotic and insensitive statements I have read regarding this catastrophe.

Many people WERE forced to jump to their deaths from as high as the 90th floor- one of these poor victims actually LANDED ON and killed Father Judge, the NYFD chaplain.

Maybe there's some entertainment value in this tidbit of information for your American flag waving Australian sense of humor!:disgust:

 

[MustPost]

I wouldn't really say the people were forced to jump out the windows.

 

[ToBeMe]

<< I wouldn't really say the people were forced to jump out the windows. >>


WHAT??????? Let's look at alternatives..........They could stay inside and have their flesh burned from them which would be extremely painfull and take up to 5 minutes of concsious unbelievable pain, or, if they were below fireline but trapped, they could hang from the fire all the while hearing the structure give way knowing that they would be crushed to death...........or, they could jump and at least feel that some resemblence of them may be recovered or that some "miriacle" may occur. Either way, jumping would have been the situation these desperate people would most likely feel gave them the most control and the least pain............. I don't think ANY of knows what we would do faced with the same situation.......but I'd like to think I would have the guts to jump...............

 

[silverpig]

If I wasn't in any immediate danger of being burned alive, I would definitely have stayed in the building. The chances of you surviving an 80 storey free fall are next to zilch; the chances of you riding the rubble down and surviving are much better (a la that one firefighter).

 

[brandonl]

<< If I wasn't in any immediate danger of being burned alive, I would definitely have stayed in the building. The chances of you surviving an 80 storey free fall are next to zilch; the chances of you riding the rubble down and surviving are much better (a la that one firefighter). >>



Ditto ....


Also the word "forced" cannot be used. They jumped on their own free will. I, myself would not have jumped ... I don't think i could bring myself to do that.

 

[Looney]

I don't know... i think you guys are a little pessimestic. I think he might have made it if he had a horseshoe up his ass.

 

[Miramonti]

The water isn't even close the the wtc. Not with 1 financial center there and the battery park city buildings.

I also heard from someone while walking the dog that she thought someone jumped from 92 stories - onto land - and survived. Some people are just idiots to believe this stuff!!

 

[Yo Ma Ma]

<< Ditto ....


Also the word "forced" cannot be used. They jumped on their own free will. I, myself would not have jumped ... I don't think i could bring myself to do that. >>

I wouldn't call it "free will", that inferno caused by the burning of the jet fuel was intensely hot, if it didn't kill you immediately then you'd be left with the prospect of being burned alive. Some were so driven by pain to escape that they did jump, but that is not free will. I am not sure we can really guess what action we would take in such a situation.

 

[Mday]

There is a slim chance that if you jump, and some wind or debri from some "explosion" caused some ppl to land in the river upon which hitting the water would be like slamming into a brick wall.

 

[cerebusPu]

theres an article somewhere with a pic of a guy jumping headfirst down WTC. apparently they think all these guys jumped because it was a choice of hot searing painful death or relavitively painless death.

 

[MustPost]

They probobly didn't have enough time to think of this, but jumping out of the building could have killed or severly hurt someone on the ground if they fell on someone.

 

[UberNeuman]

Ultima - ask this friend of yours to show you how they did this "leap"... If he lives, then you should believe him...

 

[Aihyah]

i read an article about bridge jumpers a while back.. the coroner said the injuries are pretty horrific, if more people knew how damaging water can be, they'd choose less grusome ways to kill themselves. things like water pounding through your anus blah blah if you go feet first.. iewww.