Teen Survives 20-Feet, Head-First Fall Off Escalator During Drunk Hijinx
- Posted on June 28, 2011 at 2:27pm by
Jonathon M. Seidl
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Shane O’Malley, an 18-year-old from Cambridge, MA, is lucky to be alive today. That’s because he survived a 20-feet fall from an escalator during a recent drunk hijinx. And he doesn’t even remember it.
Here’s the shocking video:
WCVB-TV has the details:
“We had been to a concert — the Dispatch concert. We had been drinking before the concert and then at the concert and I, obviously, got too drunk and was irresponsible,” O’Malley said.
Within seconds, O’Malley lost his balance and fell to the concrete floor below. He lay motionless for several minutes as friends gathered around him.
O’Malley was taken Beth Israel Hospital for treatment. He was released after treatment for a fractured elbow, according to his family.
“My back’s killing me. It might just be wicked stiff but it’s making it really difficult to get around,” he said.
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KidCharlemagne
Posted on June 29, 2011 at 11:50amObviously it’s time for the reinstatement of The Volstead Act once again…
If Budweiser were illegal then stuff like this would stop happening.
Report Post »deweydewmeyer
Posted on June 28, 2011 at 11:52pmTo bad Teddy and Patrick Kennedy never woke up when they all got their respective wake up calls.
Report Post »deweydewmeyer
Posted on June 29, 2011 at 6:31pmActually to bad they both did wake up from those wake up calls.
Report Post »drago
Posted on June 28, 2011 at 10:20pmAs the bully on the Simpsons says “Ha ha”……idiot……
Report Post »Crash1997
Posted on June 28, 2011 at 9:42pmJust great … another idiot possessing the ability to sue for his own stupid actions, much like the woman that tripped into the fountain at the mall while texting. Probably be some Government regulation that requires higher rails to prevent such an action. Instead of all of these regulations, why doesn’t the Government just create more jobs and have everybody followed by a Government agent, someone that can prevent them from smoking, drinking while driving, littering, making too much noise, being abusing to their kids, and so on.
Report Post »deerjerkydave
Posted on June 28, 2011 at 6:05pmHe also landed flat which helps to distribute the weight of the impact.
Report Post »hi
Posted on June 28, 2011 at 5:09pmA hijinx is a practical joke or comical act.
Praise the Lord that student is okay!
Report Post »Lee_in_PA
Posted on June 28, 2011 at 4:58pmMy great aunt used to say God takes care of drunks and billy goats. She was right.
Report Post »Fight for America
Posted on June 28, 2011 at 4:35pmHe asked for it and he got it. He knows right from wrong. I don’t want to hear anymore about teens having immature brains. There wasn’t a herd of kids doing this. Most of them have figured out vandalism, pain, cause and effect.
No more sympathy – sorry.
Report Post »salvawhoray
Posted on June 28, 2011 at 4:03pmhow dry I am. (Hick-up)
Report Post »georgeisn6
Posted on June 28, 2011 at 3:48pmGood thing he was a product of our public schools, head full of air bounce’s real good. A clear case of union teachers saveing the life of a student.
Report Post »bellasbrat
Posted on June 28, 2011 at 3:47pm@Zazzy…..not likely. The story says he’s 18. He would have been too young to vote for hope and change.
Report Post »CalvinandHobbes
Posted on June 28, 2011 at 3:46pmIt sounds like this kid has learned his lesson…it doesn’t say anything about him stopping drinking, though. He’s lucky that is all that happened to him.
Report Post »Ghandi was a Republican
Posted on June 28, 2011 at 3:44pmHead first but but head landed. Deceptive headline… Worst waste of bandwidth yet Blaze!
Report Post »Stu D. Baker-Hawk
Posted on June 28, 2011 at 3:23pmGod protects fools and children… and, unfortunately, this idiot, too.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on June 28, 2011 at 2:58pmDarwin’s law of natural selection almost worked that time.
Report Post »Pattondog
Posted on June 28, 2011 at 2:55pmhey yall whatch this, see if i cant get some taxpayer health coverage for my stupidity.
Report Post »Todd94590
Posted on June 28, 2011 at 2:54pmGod protects alcoholics and children
Report Post »mossbrain
Posted on June 28, 2011 at 3:14pmI believe it was the hand of Jesus that pushed that idiot off the edge.
Report Post »Taxpayer550
Posted on June 28, 2011 at 2:53pmWe now live in a day and age when the animal kingdom is better at raising their young than humans are.
Report Post »vennoye
Posted on June 28, 2011 at 3:13pmAmen!
Report Post »busterpuddles
Posted on June 28, 2011 at 2:49pmThat‘ll learn ’im. …idiot.
Report Post »moreteaplease
Posted on June 28, 2011 at 2:48pmI guess the government will be banning escalators for our own safety or at least making you clip on a safety line or something.
Report Post »moonlight on the bay
Posted on June 28, 2011 at 11:40pmRules for the Escalator:
Keep feet on the stairs.
Hold onto the handrail.
No handstands on the handrail. (don’t even try it, Shane!)
No skateboarding on the handrail.
No sitting on the handrail, it’s a HANDrail, not a BUTTrail.
Violators of these rules will only be allowed to use stairs in the future, and only with a SPOTTER.
Report Post »(ESPECIALLY if your name is Shane O’ Malley)
Diablo4965
Posted on June 28, 2011 at 2:46pm@ eric the red state were not all lazy drunken fat morons just people in Mass. Ted Kennedy comes to mind.
Report Post »code green
Posted on June 28, 2011 at 2:44pmStupid hurts.
Report Post »OUTRIDER WRITER
Posted on June 28, 2011 at 3:09pmYep.
Report Post »Locked
Posted on June 28, 2011 at 2:37pmWhoa, I had no idea Dispatch was off hiatus! That’s great! I thought they broke up around 2004, but I guess they’re back!
Oh, the kid? Glad he’s not dead. And I laugh at the “wicked” in his speech.
Report Post »TH30PH1LUS
Posted on June 28, 2011 at 2:35pmArticle should read: “FUTURE CONGRESSMAN FALLS 20 FEET ONTO HEAD – NO MAJOR ORGANS DAMAGED”
Report Post »the_zazzy
Posted on June 28, 2011 at 4:24pmFuture Congressman…I thought it was ENCINOM?
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on June 28, 2011 at 4:43pmWe think Encinom is a she or an it.
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on June 28, 2011 at 2:33pmHis back is killing him? Alcohol is killing him!
Report Post »Eric_The_Red_State
Posted on June 28, 2011 at 2:35pmAnother reason for outsiders to hate America.
Report Post »We are all a bunch of lazy drunken fat morons to them.
GRAMPA-D-NH
Posted on June 28, 2011 at 2:40pmLooked like a Jackass tryout to replace the guy who died recently…alcohol related of course.
Report Post »J.C. McGlynn
Posted on June 28, 2011 at 2:43pmHis being drunk actually saved him from more injury. `q
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on June 28, 2011 at 2:44pmLord Above, thank you for letting this young and foolish acting man survive his own brush with his own stupid deed…let him learn and others learn as well from the near loss of his life and the grief that would have come to his family and friends around the community.
Your protective hand is again demonstrated to all to behold.
Report Post »J.C. McGlynn
Posted on June 28, 2011 at 2:46pmHis being drunk actually saved him from greater injury. Falling relaxed gives more recoil action than being stiff.
Report Post »Blackhawk1
Posted on June 28, 2011 at 2:53pmJust think, because he is from Cambridge, MA, under Romneycare all the states residents get to pay for his drunken stupidity.
Report Post »Happy Killmore
Posted on June 28, 2011 at 2:53pm“Look Ma! No brains!”
Report Post »hauschild
Posted on June 28, 2011 at 3:01pmGood ol’ Mick perpetuating the stereotype.
That was quite the tumble. It’s amazing how had he landed slightly differently, it might have been paralysis or death. Maybe being oiled-up aided the landing. Then again, it was probably random chance.
Report Post »the_zazzy
Posted on June 28, 2011 at 3:07pmHard to feel sorry for this clown. I’m sure he is one of the useful idiots who voted for Dope and Change!!
Report Post »biohazard23
Posted on June 28, 2011 at 3:28pm@J.C. McGlynn, that’s why an awful lot of drunks seem to walk away from the horrific car crashes they cause, and the innocent person they hit gets hurt (or worse).
Report Post »cessna152
Posted on June 28, 2011 at 3:40pmSee, if the schools did not dumb down these kids they would understand the entire theory of “acceleration due to gravity” and “objects in motion tend to stay in motion until they hit a solid and harder surface”? Maybe I simply so smart that only I understand this seemingly simple concept?
Report Post »BONETRAUMA
Posted on June 28, 2011 at 3:42pmJackass moron
Report Post »Flagwaver
Posted on June 28, 2011 at 4:00pmSo, why isn’t someone arresting them or whoever sold them the alcohol?
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on June 28, 2011 at 4:01pmIt‘s always the drunk person who doesn’t get hurt. At least he didn’t hurt anyone else. What’s up with the dumbasses who stop and look, then walk away? I’d hate to be a hurt stranger in that place.
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on June 28, 2011 at 4:05pmWhat IS the drinking age in MA?
Report Post »Wyatt's Torch
Posted on June 28, 2011 at 4:13pmAnother Darwin Award runner-up nominee….
Report Post »hauschild
Posted on June 28, 2011 at 4:58pm@Anonymous T. Irrelevant
I completely didn‘t focus on the bystanders’ apathy, so had to view it again. Wow, people are something else nowadays!?!?!
Report Post »Sound The Trumpet In Zion
Posted on June 28, 2011 at 5:01pmAMEN SHOWTIME!
Report Post »“I, obviously, got too drunk and was irresponsible,” O’Malley said”
He must be a conservative who just got too drunk, I have never heard a liberal admit that they were “irresponsible”. Hopefully he doesn’t get worse as times go by, but I’m sure that he will “own” up to being his fault.
avenger
Posted on June 28, 2011 at 6:33pmchill ..just another dumb azs going thru growing pains….
Report Post »moonlight on the bay
Posted on June 28, 2011 at 11:25pmHe’s lucky to have feeling in his back at all! Thank goodness he didn’t LAND on anyone. THEY might not have been as fortunate as he was and then he’d have a lot more to worry about than back pain.
Report Post »kindling
Posted on June 29, 2011 at 1:00amI bet he broke his back and it does not show up on the x-ray yet. Give him a week or so and rex-ray his back and see what shows up. Little fractures all over the place. That happened to me….I know.
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