Rich

So I'm over at a friend's condo having a couple drinks on the balcony waiting for the Canada day fireworks to start, when what do we see but a man falling down right in front of our faces. We were on the 6st floor, turns out he fell from the 11th. Thank God the building is right on a river, and it's extremely high right now because we've had a ton of rain, the river is right up to the building. He landed in the water, but it wasn't very deep, he was fucked up pretty bad but not dead.

At first I thought it was a dumb joke, someone threw a dummy over or something, because he didn't yell on the way down. I thought that until I heard him moaning on the ground. So we run down there, get shoulder deep in the river, and find the guy holding on to a branch. He was conscious and talking, although obviously in an extreme amount of pain. Firefighters and the river patrol got there extremely fast and got him into an ambulance. Two weeks ago when the river was lower he'd be a dead man, same if he were in almost any other building in the city, as this one is right on the river like no other I've seen around.

I've been all around the world and I've seen some crazy shit in my day, but this was by far the most insane thing I've ever seen with my own two eyes.

On a brighter note, my buddy was wearing a GFY shirt and a news paper was taking all kinds of pictures with him in them, so that will be funny to see if they publish one of those pictures.

Just thought I'd share, my heart is still pounding and I can't sleep. The guy was literally one or two feet away from my face as he fell, we were all right at the edge of the balcony.