4 bizarre accidents and their amazing survivors

Have you ever happened to be watching a cartoon - like Papa-Leagues, for example - and wondering what it would be like if any of the accidents experienced by the characters happened in real life? Then you will learn the story of four people who went through extraordinary situations and - amazingly enough - survived to tell! Check out:

1 - Flying Baby

Image Source: Playback / BBC

It goes to say that the following scene does not seem to come from a drawing: a baby falls from the sixth floor of a building, lands on the fluffy awning of a cafe, where he bounces to fall into the arms of a doctor passing by the street. Sounds like a lie, doesn't it? But this story happened in France in 2010, and the hero-doctor watched as the 18-month-old boy approached the window and, intending a misfortune, was ready to save the child.

2 - Free fall

It's fine that the stories of people who parachute, crash to the ground and survive are not completely unheard of, but what you will "see" now seems like a lie. The character was a British skydiving instructor who, while falling from a height of over 4, 000 meters and 160 kilometers per hour and discovering that the parachute failed, recorded all the action with the camera strapped to his helmet! Look:

Imagine the dread of the poor fellow, who even says to the camera “Damn! I'm dead. Goodbye. ”While watching the ground approaching! The jump occurred in 2007, and Michael Holmes - the skydiver - miraculously landed on bushes and was hospitalized with a broken ankle and a punctured lung.

3 - Human Popsicle

Image Source: Reproduction / The Telegraph

You don't have to be keen on extreme sports to know that aerial activities - such as ballooning or hang gliding - should not be practiced when there are storms nearby. For in 2007, brave German Ewa Wisnerska decided to jump paraglider even though she knew the weather was not very stable, and was pushed by a rising draft of nearly 10, 000 meters in just 15 minutes.

Just to give you an idea, Mount Everest measures just over 8, 800 meters, and at these altitudes the oxygen is over-scarce and the temperatures freezing down to -50 ° C. When the German was carried so high - at a speed of 20 meters per second - her body was covered with ice and she lost consciousness.

Miraculously, Ewa woke up about 45 minutes later, when he was already 6, 900 meters above sea level, landing safely 65 kilometers from where he had departed. Although she survived - another paraglider was caught in the same storm and was not so lucky - the German almost lost her ears and suffered severe frostbite.

4 - Bladder Man

Image Source: Reproduction / 3 News

A trucker named Steven McCormack slipped while servicing his vehicle, falling with his left buttock onto one of the compressed air valves that was part of his truck's brake mechanism. As it fell, the air - 100 pounds per square inch of compressed air - began to be injected into McCormack's body.

The trucker was inflating like a bladder, because with the great amount of air penetrating McCormack's body so quickly, the pressure was separating the muscles from the fat, and the man was twice as large as normal. Some of the trucker's colleagues heard his screams and managed to cut off the air supply, but the accident nearly killed the man, who had his internal organs pressed during the accident.

The pain, as you might imagine, was terrible, but McCormack was so swollen that the paramedics who helped him couldn't even give him any injection. It took the poor man three days to get back to full size after blowing the air out of his ass. This accident is quite common in cartoons, but with humans it is likely that McCormack's case is the only one recorded in history!

* Originally posted on 10/02/2014 .

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