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Talk about bad luck!!
Bettor luck as snow cushions bridge jump
By TAMER EL-GHOBASHYand FERNANDA SANTOS
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS
A Super Bowl gambler who lost big allegedly took a dive off the Whitestone Bridge - but doctors wager he'll pull through after landing in a pile of snow.
Cops did not say how much Adrian Conde, 25, lost on the game, but it was enough to make him want to cash in his chips. So around 11 p.m., less than an hour after the New England Patriots beat the Carolina Panthers, 32-29, Conde stopped his girlfriend's station wagon in the bridge's far right Bronx-bound lane and leaped, cops said.
Conde, who lives with his parents in Morris Park, landed 100 feet below, in a 10-foot pile of snow in Ferry Points Park in the Bronx. EMTs, called by witnesses, found him writhing in pain just a stone's throw from the edge of the East River.
"He was moaning and groaning, with no comprehensible words," said EMT Jennifer Ferraro of Battalion 20 in the Bronx, who along with her partner, Justin Lim, treated Conde at the scene.
"Everybody was pretty amazed that he survived," she said.
Conde was listed in stable condition yesterday at Jacobi Medical Center, nursing head wounds and some cuts and scratches on his legs, hospital officials said.
Conde's relatives and friends, who gathered in the hospital's lobby yesterday, refused to speak with reporters.
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