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Friday Poll: Stuck Between Buildings, Romantic or Reckless?


Recently, a University of Pittsburgh student tried to impress a woman by leaping from one building to another, but “instead fell into a narrow gap between the buildings near campus and had to be rescued.” He survived the fall:

Crews used a jackhammer and other tools to break through a wall from inside a restaurant on the first floor of one of the buildings. A paramedic was lowered on a rope to check on the man before other paramedics led him to safety, said Emily Schaffer, another spokeswoman with the Department of Public Safety.

The man was bleeding but conscious, and he waved to TV news cameras signaling he was OK as he was wheeled on a gurney to an ambulance. He broke his ankle in the fall and was being treated at a hospital.

Police were considering whether to file criminal charges and did not immediately release the man’s name, Schaffer said.

Chad Brooks, the franchisee who owns the Qdoba restaurant whose wall was broken through, said the eatery will probably be closed for a couple of weeks.

How should one think of the student’s actions: a romantic (but failed) gesture or a reckless act?

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Ayn Rand
7 years ago

That’s not the guy. Reckless.

Alex
7 years ago

Story doesn’t say if he got a second date.

Sue
7 years ago

She can do better.

Joe
7 years ago

this is no laughing matter. his neighborhood is out of Qdoba for weeks because of that guy. no way that’s right.