Floor Collapses Beneath Partygoers During St. Patrick’s Day Bash in New York
- Posted on March 18, 2012 at 10:32am by
Madeleine Morgenstern
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Two people were hospitalized after the floor of a New York City home collapsed during a St. Patrick's Day party Saturday night. (Image source: New York Daily News)
Two people were hospitalized after the third floor of a New York City home collapsed during a raucous house party Saturday night.
As many as 100 people had attended the St. Patrick’s Day bash, which came to an abrupt halt when the floor gave way around 10:45 p.m., sending party-goers scrambling for their lives, the New York Post reported.
“My whole life just flashed before my eyes,” Chelsea Poyser, 16, told the New York Daily News.
Rescue crews removed eight people from the second floor by ladder, New York’s WABC-TV reported. A total of 12 people were injured, though 10 refused medical attention. Of the two people hospitalized, one was said to be in serious condition and the other was in stable condition.
The cause of the collapse is under investigation, though WABC reported that a previous complaint lodged against the building had been structural instability due to an illegal renovation.
One resident told the Post the noise from the party could be heard throughout the entire block.
“We couldn’t help but hear the noise, music, loud talking and yelling, then a lot of banging,” the resident said. “Then the noise stopped.”
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80mesh
Posted on March 19, 2012 at 8:18amparty rockers in the house tonite ……..everybodies shufflin …
that is a precurser to our nation
party till the bottom falls out
Report Post »JJ Coolay
Posted on March 18, 2012 at 4:55pmPeople do not learn from other people’s unforunate mishaps.
How many times have people died from collapsing floors at a club?
Report Post »Is partying worth it?
pavepaws
Posted on March 19, 2012 at 1:12amSo the party brought the house down?
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on March 19, 2012 at 1:37amPAVEPAWS Too many bags of chips didnt help
Report Post »sndrman
Posted on March 18, 2012 at 2:42pmGOD bless the Irish!!!!!!!!!!! hope noone is to seriously or permanently injured…..luck of the Irish save more than got hurt…………
Report Post »VoteRightDammit
Posted on March 18, 2012 at 2:21pmBushs’ fault, of course.
Report Post »Grawpy
Posted on March 18, 2012 at 4:28pmThat you Barack?
Report Post »Red Max
Posted on March 18, 2012 at 2:18pmI bet it looked something like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0r9LNdhuAs&feature=related
Report Post »ThePostman
Posted on March 18, 2012 at 2:06pmI sure hope no green beer was spilled – that would be a real catastrophe.
Report Post »Joker50
Posted on March 18, 2012 at 1:45pmAt 16, that whole life flash thing was hardly a blip on a radar screen!!!
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on March 18, 2012 at 3:46pmSeeing where she was… and what she was doing.. I disagree!
Report Post »flatbroke
Posted on March 18, 2012 at 1:45pm” get up everybody jump around, jump around” whhoooaaa! LOLOLOL!
Report Post »RinkyDink34
Posted on March 18, 2012 at 1:28pmOMG not again; This is what they were dancing to when the floor went south!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxKQ8xGBOSg
Report Post »deano24
Posted on March 18, 2012 at 2:52pmI was thinking it might have been this song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=010KyIQjkTk&ob=av2e
Report Post »COFemale
Posted on March 18, 2012 at 1:12pmI don’t know of any house upper floors which would be rated to hold over a 100 people. Seems like they broke code by holding the party. I just hope and pray the one in critical condition does not lose his/her life because they decided to throw a party with too many people.
If they don’t own the home, I would also suppose the owner can file a lawsuit against the group.
Report Post »PeachyinGA
Posted on March 18, 2012 at 12:59pm100+ people at wild house party. 16 year old interviewed. 10 injured refused medical attention. A bigger story here might be if there were any adults (21 or older) at the party and if alcohol or drugs were found by the investigators.
Report Post »Biddle
Posted on March 19, 2012 at 12:00pmno there were no drugs or alcohol at this party. It would be the first time teenagers were drinking and getting high tho. and that would be crazy.
Report Post »youdidthis
Posted on March 18, 2012 at 12:15pmhttp://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/03/16/executive-order-national-defense-resources-preparedness
aj called this bs.while the bs media ignored it.
http://www.infowars.com/martial-law-obama-issues-executive-order-national-defense-resources-preparedness/
Report Post »Baddoggy
Posted on March 18, 2012 at 12:29pmWe have been taken over by the POS Marxist.
Report Post »People are too damn dumb to see it or care….sad
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/03/16/executive-order-national-defense-resources-preparedness
Chet Hempstead
Posted on March 19, 2012 at 5:20amThat’s just a minor revision of the executive order on National Defense Resources Preparedness signed by President Clinton, which was just a minor revision of the executive order on National Defense Resources Preparedness signed by President Reagan, and so on back to the first executive order on National Defense Resources Preparedness signed by FDR in 1939. If you don’t believe me, just look up the Clinton and Reagan executive orders which are revoked in section 803. In other words, this is a normal part of every President’s job that just seems sinister to paranoids who see everything that President Obama does part of some vast and overarching evil conspiracy.
Report Post »hauschild
Posted on March 18, 2012 at 11:39am“My whole life just flashed before my eyes,”
Yeah, that 6-8 foot fall would kill any person (eye roll).
Sometimes I wonder whether I’m even in the same universe as the average American these days.
Report Post »the_truth_or_not
Posted on March 18, 2012 at 1:31pmWell. I have not seen very many houses with a ceiling/floor height of only 6′8″. That would leave the space between floor and actual ceiling at only 5′. You need to remember the floor is usually around 11.5″, then you have sheet rock for a lower ceiling and particle board for the upper floor. If the house was 60 yrs old or older, you are talking even smaller because it more than likely would be plaster. and I don’t see too many houses built for dwarfs.
Doorways are usually 6′8″. Standard houses, from ceiling to floor is at 8′6″ minus one layer Sheetrock and one layer particle board(ceiling/floor layers. So the actual drop would be 9′6″ (rounded down). In a lot of construction safety manuals indicates a fall at only 8′ could be fatal. Not to mention that she would be falling thru broke wood, pipes, wires, heating ducts and 100 people are crashing around her landing on who knows what below.
I would dare say this would be a scary thing even for someone that has had life experiences. Now for most normal teenagers, they had led a sheltered life, and I could see how this would truly be a point in where they could think that their life is in jeopardy.
Report Post »Itsjusttim
Posted on March 18, 2012 at 11:09amDid anyone notice the National Defense Executive Order the President Issued on March 16? There’s a link on the Drudge Report.
Report Post »Itsjusttim
Posted on March 18, 2012 at 11:13amI‘ll bet everyone thinks there’s going to be an election in November.
Report Post »Itsjusttim
Posted on March 18, 2012 at 11:15amBecause don‘t you know that if he isn’t going to be reelected, then surely in the minds of elites it must be because of racism, and therein must be a “Need to Protect.”
Report Post »Itsjusttim
Posted on March 18, 2012 at 11:19amWhen I read National Defense Orders, I see the authorization therein even authorizing the power to seize people’s bank accounts to fund the defense of the U.S.
Report Post »qpwillie
Posted on March 18, 2012 at 11:31amI don’t know. I think they’ll try to rig it so it looks like he won legitimately. If that plan is thwarted, I’m with you, I don‘t think he’ll give it up.
Report Post »Itsjusttim
Posted on March 18, 2012 at 11:36amqpwillie,
Report Post »There’s going to be too many people voting against him for it to have any chance to [look] legitimate.
teahugger
Posted on March 18, 2012 at 11:43amI read about half of it and it made me too sick to continue. I don’t think it matters what happens in November any more. The tipping point has been reached and surpassed and there is no reversing the damage or changing direction in any appreciable way. We may not even make it to November without an “emergency” requiring government intervention. Yes, I am pessimistic. But am I wrong?
Report Post »ShyMan
Posted on March 18, 2012 at 11:01amI hate when that happens.
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on March 18, 2012 at 10:54am.
Report Post »I wonder how many size 22w Petite women were at the party?…..
RebelYell1862
Posted on March 18, 2012 at 10:49amThat’s funny.
Report Post »Johann
Posted on March 18, 2012 at 10:46amJust your typical New York Irish with their drunkeness, loud mouths, obscenities and failure to obey the law of gravity. Many of these party goers are most likely grand supporters of the New York City/Sodom life style. Today they can gorge on green beer and riot at Zuccotti; it is hard to imagine that people pay thousands of dollars per month to live in this cess pool of a city.
Report Post »TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
Posted on March 18, 2012 at 11:23amI agree with NY city being a cesspool. Don’t blame the Irish though for the collapse of the floor. If the Irish had built it would still be intact. Knowing this part of town, I would say it’s a bunch of wide-bottomed “eye-talian” gals hanging out the wife beater tee shirt crowd, lol. BADA BING!
Always remember… everybody is Irish on St. Paddy’s day… even wide-bottom gals of non-Irish descent… lmao.
Report Post »RayOne
Posted on March 18, 2012 at 10:43amRaise the roof,
Report Post »Lower the floor.
Turn Up the music,
close the Door!
KingCanon
Posted on March 18, 2012 at 10:41amWell then… Guess it‘s safe to say it wasn’t The Upper Room kinda saint gathering!
Report Post »READRIGHTHERE
Posted on March 18, 2012 at 10:35amThen the noise stopped. Classic.
Report Post »GumRock
Posted on March 18, 2012 at 10:50amLack of Common Sense is ultimately the cause.
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