Three Amazing Survivors

Alexi Roskov.

Has your better half ever annoyed you so much, you felt like jumping out of the window? Many men (And probably a great number of women), can attest that a relationship can be one of the most stressful aspects of life.

So when Alexi Roskov’s wife (Yekaterina Roskov) began to kick off, its little surprise he felt like jumping out of the window. The big surprise is that he actually did it. Alexi (22) fell almost 50 ft before hitting the ground- then proceeded to get up and wonder back up to his apartment.

Obviously, his wife then called an ambulance and began to chew him out for jumping in the first place.

So he jumped again.

The funniest part of this is that Mr Roskov can’t actually remember why he jumped the first time. Probably something to do with the three bottles of Vodka he downed before doing it.

The Facts:

The lethal height for a human to fall from is very hard to define. It’s generally accepted that a human can survive a fall from a second storey window, but in some people even this can be lethal. Surviving form the 5th storey is not impossible, especially if Roskov’s landing was cushioned (by snow for example).

After a certain height, the probability of death levels off as a person reaches terminal velocity. This is the point where they are falling as fast as they are going to fall because air resistance is now equal with gravity. Assuming you hit this speed if you jump from 80 feet, your chances of survival are just as good as if you jumped from 180 feet. It all depends on what sort of shape you are in, and what you land on.

Flight Sergeant Nicholas Stephen Alkemade, of the British RAF fell 18,000 feet (without a parachute), after the Lancaster Bomber he was crewing was shot down over Germany during World War II. He survived the fall relatively intact, allegedly suffering from only a sprained leg. His fall was cushioned by pine trees and snow.

Roy Sullivan

They say that lightning never strikes the same place twice. Tell that to Roy Sullivan, who was struck a total of Seven Times In his life.

He was struck in 1942, 1969, 1970, 1972, 1973, 1976 and 1977. Supposedly, he developed a case of paranoia after the third time and became convinced a higher power was out to get him. Mind you, considering the odds of being struck by lightning ONCE in 80 years are 576,000 to one, and the odds of being struck by lightning seven times are 10^25 to one, can you blame him?