Pile of Poop saves woman from 6th floor fall

A woman in Nanjing, a city in the Jiangsu province of China, survived a six story fall on Wednesday after her landing was cushioned by a pile of human excrement. The heap of waste that cushioned her fall was estimated to be approximately 20 centimeters, or 7.9 inches, in depth.

The woman, who news sources in China did not name, fell after accidentally slipping off the edge of an outdoor balcony at her home in a sixth floor apartment. According to a report from the China News Service, the fall occurred when the woman was stretching to hang her laundry on a clothesline. She lost her balance and went over the edge of the balcony, tumbling rapidly towards the street.

Meanwhile, maintenance workers six stories below were excavating the storage tanks in the building’s septic system. A pile of waste that workers had cleared from the tanks broke the woman’s landing when she reached the ground.

The woman walked away from her ordeal without serious physical damage, and suffered only minor cuts, scrapes, and bruising.

By Sun Tzu on 11-04-2007