News - Fat man crushes lawyer, lawyer lives

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/newyork/ny-lifall0412,0,400189.story?coll=ny-leadworldnews-headlines&track=mostemailedlink

Excerpt from the article:

Ellen Massey always counted being struck by a baseball or a bat at Shea Stadium among the hazards of being a Mets fan, but she never thought a 300-pound man would come crashing down the stands -- and onto her.That's what the Manhattan resident, 58, said happened on Monday, Opening Day at Shea.

Shortly after the seventh-inning stretch, she said, a man dressed in a green Army-type jacket tumbled from higher seats and onto her back, knocking the wind out of her and, ultimately, causing serious injury."I only know he came flying," Massey, 58, said Wednesday from her bed in Jacobi Medical Center in the Bronx. "I was literally not able to breathe for about half-a-minute or so. The first thing I was aware of was not being able to breathe, and then when I was able to breathe I was aware of the pain in my lower back."

Massey, who is a lawyer, is scheduled for surgery on a vertebra on Friday. After she was injured, she said, she was attended to by two emergency medical technicians who were in the stands watching the game, and then by Shea's own medics, who stabilized her head and neck area and took her to a local hospital.

Comment - I hope the fat dude was able to get that awful lawyer smell out of his clothes. Poor fella, it's bad enough to fall down stadium steps, imagine if you touched a lawyer to boot. I wonder if he spilled his beer when he fell?