We’ve all been there, haven’t we?
You’ve had a lot to drink. You see a member of the opposite sex. You’d like to get the attention of this man or woman to maybe see if he or she would like to go home with you.
Really, we’ve all been there, right?
Probably. But very few of us have been HERE…
On Monday night, an unnamed University of Pittsburgh student wanted to impress a woman he saw on Forbes Avenue.
So he climbed to the roof of a building and tried to leap over to the roof of a nearby building…
… only to fail miserably and actually get himself wedged between a Qdoba and a Bruegger’s Bagels. This is where he remained for four hours.
“He didn’t quite achieve his goal. He missed and fell in between the buildings,” said Police Spokesperson Sonya Toler.
The student was stuck in a 16-inch wide gap, three stories high, from approximately 2 a.m. through approximately 6 a.m.
Police and rescue paramedics arrived at the scene not long after witnesses say the man plummet to his near-death. And total embarrassment.
He was eventually broken free and taken to UPMC Presbyterian, where Toler said he was treated and will be just fine.
Physically, that is.
Mentally, we’d have to assume this is the sort of incident that remains with one for a very long time.
To pry him loose from the gap, the Public safety department had to drill holes in three walls of the buildings, two of which were in Qdoba and one in the neighboring building.
Chad Brooks, the franchise owner of all Qdobas in Pittsburgh, said the interior wall of his restaurant had to be taken down and rebuilt, but he wasn’t certain how much it would cost.
The restaurant will be closed for at least a few weeks, yet Brooks said he was not looking to press charges against the man.
So even though this idiot didn’t get lucky on Monday evening, he did end up getting lucky in the end.
He could have died. He could be facing a lawsuit.
And instead he just went home to the hospital alone.