So yeah last night I went for a walk with my dog and there are some pretty high up building where we walk.

I go this way all the time and have never seen anything as strange as I did last night. What happened was I hear like a patter sound and looked up and this guy ran and jumped off a building. I mean from pretty high up like around 200 or so feet. Anyway he landed on his feet which was quite loud and then continued running.

I heard police cars as well and he was carrying something looked like a carton of cigarettes so he probably held up a store.

I mean I am not suggesting that this guy is super human or anything it is likely he just fluked out but still strange none the less.

That sounds like a painful fall and he landed on his feet and ran. I would be on the ground crying like a baby. Weird

200ft, like 60 metres?

Seriously? That's absolutely crazy. I'm not saying I don't believe you but that's just, well, unbelieveable! Are you sure?

I think AG is trying to make a point.

I was in Auckland a few years ago, and my hotel room had a view of the Sky Tower. So many people jumped off of it every day that I was there that I got the creeps whenever I looked out the window.

I mean even with a bungee cord, it looks horrific.

Yeah man and it sounded epic when he landed too. He grunted also as he started running. Perhaps he really did hurt himself but he was in shock or something.

While adrenaline can do some amazing things to the human body I find this incredible!

I don't know! WOW That does seem incredible no matter what angle you try and perceive it.

I suppose the guy could have been jacked up on some crack or some type of other hard drug. That along
with an adrenaline rush could be possible.

You should have screamed "Do a flip!"

Umm, anything in the news about this guy?

I don't care what people say, I don't mind Auckland. Of course, I don't like it, thats just pushing it... but I don't mind it.

...hmmm wow......give me what that guy had!

What?

I'm going to assume you mean 20 feet, and say he got lucky.

Most skyscrapers don't even hit 200 lol.

Adrenaline is crazy, I could beat out Donovan Bailey if I'm scared enough. xD

every heard of free running. Look it up on youtube.

You just got to know how to absorb the energy on the landing so you wont hurt yourself

That is exactly what I was thinking. The only way for this to be possible is if he was one of those freestyle walkers/runners where they jump from very tall objects and roll while landing to absorb the impact. They recover from the roll right back into a running stride. I believe this is also called parkour?

My mate sean does parkour, wicked!

Even with parkour, a drop of 200 feet is impossible.

Hmmmm one of my friends does parkour I'll have to ask him what he thinks.Are you sure it was 200 feet???

Exactly.

200 feet!? To put it into perspective I think you can bungee jump from 200 feet. Maybe you got your perspective wrong... Someone who jumps from that height would have serious injuries upon hitting the floor. If this is the case it's mental!

Yes, the Goliath site in Canada is 200 feet.

http://www.whistlerbungee.com/GCB/jumps.php

Kiwi activists have protested my report of the Sky Tower Sky Jump as a "bungee." It is >ahem< cable-controlled descent, with no rebound. It is also 192 meters, not feet.

http://www.newzealandnz.co.nz/bungy-jump-s...r-sky-jump.html

Please accept this clarification.

If you average the height of a man to about 5' 10" ish, and you average a floor in a building to be 10' ish, then the attached image shows the scale of 200 feet and a man.

Likely?

200 feet would be about a 20 story building.

Of course there are skyscrapers that tall.

I'm more impressed that you could hear him running, all that distance away......

With the sirens and the cigarette carton, it sounds like you're trying to reference a scene in a movie, but if you are, I can't place it.

Of course there are in downtown areas, but you generally would not describe a skyscraper as a 200-foot-tall building. Normally they'd be called skyscrapers, or described in stories as you just did. Hence why I'm thinking it's a typo, 'cause if you're near a building that big, there will most likely be other such buildings around and being able to see a guy fall from the top to the bottom in full and in enough detail to see something as small as a pack of fags in his hand PLUS hear him running on the roof, the building will not be 200 feet.

From 200 feet the guy would look like a puddle of cream of tomato soup! You'd need a sponge and a bucket!

Screw that, you'd need a powerhose lol.

Ah, well maybe this is like those "eyewitness testimony" exercises in law school and psychology classes.


The OP doesn't say the building was 200 feet, and doesn't say that the guy jumped off of the top of the building. Nor, for that matter, does the post say that he landed on the street.

In any case, the guy could have jumped dropping only ten feet, say, from one building to the roof of an adjoining building, so far as the words of the OP commit.

Still would have been an awesome sight.

What if this guy really has superhuman powers?

More likely he applied for and got an exemption from the universal gravitational constant.

Please people do not try this when your on the run.

Can you give us a more clear idea of how high the building was by any chance? maybe in storys? Two story, three ect.
Still I do find that amazing either way, wouldn't want to get in his way

The thing is here folks I never actually seen him leap off the top of the building. I just seen him land, it was incredible I find it hard to believe he was even capable of getting back up.

To me from where I was at it appeared as if he actually leaped off the building however there is another significant smaller building only about 50 feet tall right next to it. Personally after thinking about it this is the one i think he took his leap of faith from.... Even at this height though I just don't know how he didn't at least break both of his legs or worse.

It is certainly one of the most perplexing things I have ever seen. I still can't stop thinking about how epic his jump was.

For those with challenged imaginations... here's what a 50ft building would look like.

Looks a bit more realistic, but still quite a feat.

any one who freefalls 50 feet onto solid ground is not going to run away .....here are 2 stories from the web, first one involves a super fit freeskater who was injured

1. Despite an almost 50-ft. free fall from competitor Jake Brown, Bob Burnquist won gold in Skateboard Big Air in the opening night of the X Games on Thursday, scoring 95.6 on the final run of the competition. Burnquist pulled off the trick in his fifth and final attempt just moments after watching silver medalist Brown slam to the bottom of the event's mega ramp and lay motionless for nearly five minutes.

second is a more realistic outcome

2. A judge who killed himself by jumping 50ft to the ground had been suffering from depression caused by drugs prescribed for his high blood pressure, an inquest has heard.
Judge Rodney McKinnon, 64, died after falling from his third-floor apartment in Dolphin Square, Pimlico, central London.

hmm thats me piled over 100X....
grrrr its not superman its a vampire..

I know, free running, but holy sh**! 200 feet?

Well at least someone's done their homework......

Welcome to UM and enjoy your stay.......

Yea, I was watchin some show on Spike, like the most outragous police vids or somethin like that...And this guy who was involved in a high speed chase...He had his car ran off the road, got out, pulled a knife on like 9 cops, so they just started firing tranquilizers at him, and he got shot with enough tranquilizers to kill an elephant it said, but he was on so much crack that it didn't even affect him..He just kept walkin around, yanking the bullets out of him...

Strange...Look what I found! Highest Fall Apparently the highest fall without a parachutte to live was 10,160 meters or 33,316 feet!

This taken into consideration...Plausible! Unlikely, but very possible!
Heres a little more...Discovery's Pushing the Limits

Hi, Camozotz.

The issue is not not the survival, but the walking away.

For really long drops, the best shot is to deploy your arms and legs as outstreched as you can (which does not appear to be the situation of the man in the OP).

You quickly reach terminal velocity, that is, the force of gravity is just offset by the force of the air pushing against you. That happens at about 200 km/hr (125 miles/hr), which remains constant because only an imbalance of forces would change your velocity.

So, after a few hundred meters, additional height doesn't matter, if you know what you're doing, or do the right thing anyway. 1,000 meters, 10,000 meters, literally all the same.

Can I survive hitting something at 200 km/hr?

Sure, people have survived head-on car crashes where each vehicle was doing 100 km/hour.

How many of the survivors walk away?

Absolutley right; plus its what you land on and the way you land that makes a huge difference, landing directly onto a hard surface without breaking your momentum is never going to be pleasant, you may get up and possibly even walk a few steps but there is always going to be injury.

Unbelievable, all I can picture is this guys feet winding up his a**.....

200feet!!!! it would have pulverized his ankles,feet,backbone and destroyed internal organs. 20 feet i can believe, but 200 feet? no way its physically impossible to survive much less get up and run away...sorry but I have to call BS on this one.

I rise to defend the honor of AtheistGod.

Damn, I never thought I'd write that.

He doesn't claim to know which building the guy jumped from, and doesn't claim to know that it was from the top of either one. Its nighttime, he's got company, and apparently the visual scene is busy.

It looked to him as if somebody jumped fifty feet, but that after it looked like the same guy had jumped two hundred feet from another building instead, except on reflection that would be absurd. And the report comes with an acknowledgment that 50 feet is pretty way out, too.

We have given AG some openings for "social experiment" or "eyewitness exercise," and he didn't bite. How 'bout it looked like what he said it looked like, and many of us think it was really something else? Not as if that would be a first for UM.

Even at 50ft the human body cannot withstand that kind of Blunt impact. 20ft I CAN believe IF he seen the guy/gurl roll into impact..but he said he landed flat footed and ran off. sorry but I still say BS..its physically impossible...unless he was some sort of super-human(doubtful)...I'm not saying he's lying, just that what he "thought" he saw was absolutely impossible. Jumping from a 2 story window, maybe yeah...50-200 ft, absolutely not.

hey what about taking a picture of a building next time you walk your dog? Maybe then we could get a better picture of how this all event looked like

good idea

Well I do parkour and sebastian, the black guy, does a massive jump in this clip. He also does an even bigger jump off the bridge off a navy ship down to a gun on the deck. can't find this clip. I have also seen on a funny home video show wear a guy sent in footage of thai land guys back flipping off the top off two story roofs and they did it repeatedly, also if that wasn't enought they started doing it off a three story building. They do roll on landing but that doesn't take the force out of the drop just the forward movement.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQFT_u6p9LM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEeqHj3Nj2c

David Belle jumping the man power gap:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MfiCKNb020...feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97IYe8RqYQc...feature=related

Again were not talking bout "roll outs"..This guy landed flat footed and then ran off. Thanx for the links but its completely irrelevent to OP. Looks folks gravity and physics say that this is impossible! Dont believe me? Go jump off your house and see how it feels.
P.S. dont jump off your house!! If you do then well your ignorant and need educating