For some people, the urge for suicide comes with a flare for the dramatic. In the case of one woman from Buenos Aires, Argentina, she decided that she wanted to make a splash and leap from the top of the iconic Hotel Crown Plaza Panamericano. Well, a splat anyway. Unfortunately for her, she survived her 23-story fall. The unnamed 30-year-old suicide jumper fell 23 stories and survived with only broken ribs, broken hips, and internal bleeding; she’s beaten up but she’s still alive, which is amazing. Like previous suicide survivors, this woman survived thanks to landing on a car. It beats landing on a pile of uncollected, weeks-old garbage!
“I looked up and I saw a girl that was going over the railing while another person was talking to her,” said taxi driver Juan Carlos Candame. “Then she walked to the edge, went back to talk to the other person, then she turned around and she jumped.”
Amazingly, the woman survived when she landed on top of a taxi cab driven by Miguel Cajal. He stopped only because he saw the commotion in front of the Crown Plaza Panamericano and saw a police officer pointing up wards. He got out of his cab and bang, a woman landed right on top of it in a seated position. Somehow, she survived her 330-foot (100 meter) plunge from the edge of the building.
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