Darwin...so close.

[highland145]

A college student in Mexico survived after reportedly falling 80 feet from a sixth-floor balcony while performing a yoga post over a railing last weekend.

In a still shot spread widely on social media, the young woman, identified by the Mexican newspaper El Universal as 23-year-old Alexa Terrazas, is seen hanging upside down on the outside of the balcony rail while supporting herself with her waist and the weight of her legs, which are bent. According to a tweet, the woman was practicing "extreme" yoga.

The woman, identified as Alexa Terrazas by local outlets, was allegedly practicing yoga over her balcony railing when she fell and broke her legs. (Javo Rayado)
After the picture was taken, the woman fell from the apartment balcony and broke both of her legs, as well as suffered fractures to her arms, hips and head, El Universal reported.

According to the publication, the woman, living in San Pedro in Nuevo Leon, broke 110 bones and underwent 11 hours of surgery following the fall. She will face years of recovery.
The Nuevo Leon Attorney General’s Office investigated the fall and found the guard rail did not have structural damages, local outlets reported.







https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/woman-falls-balcony-yoga

 

[Unheard]

What an idiot. If I broke 110 bones, I think I would have preferred death.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Bet she wishes she was dead, that's got to be painful.

Crazy to survive falling that height though.

 

[zinfamous]

Interesting photo. Captures the exact seconds between her old life and the new life of endless recovery that defines her new daily routine.

 

[nakedfrog]

What an idiot. If I broke 110 bones, I think I would have preferred death.

Oh, pshaw, that's only a bit over half of them.

 

[SKORPI0]

Ouch.

500 × 750

 

[UsandThem]

I'd be surprised if she wasn't permanently disabled in some way.

I only fell about 1/3 of that distance when I was 13 (being stupid, no other excuses), and my back/spine is shot now. I had problems off and on with it during my teens and 20s, but by my 30s it got worse (and permanent).

 

[Scarpozzi]

This seems suspicious to me. Was she practicing some kind of yoga move to jump over a wall?

 

[highland145]

This seems suspicious to me. Was she practicing some kind of yoga move to jump over a wall?

Looks like she was just hanging by her hips....until she wasn't.

Fly, yoga lady, fly.

 

[nakedfrog]

This seems suspicious to me. Was she practicing some kind of yoga move to jump over a wall?

Ugh, she was just, like, showing how her like chakras are like so aligned that she can like balance totally perfectly. Like, seriously.

 

[WelshBloke]

Interesting photo. Captures the exact seconds between her old life and the new life of endless recovery that defines her new daily routine.

I hate photos like that. I can feel the feeling of "Oh fuck!" dread as she started to slip, couldn't do anything about it and started to fall!

 

[whm1974]

I would think that a 23 year old college student would actually know better then to do something stupid like this. Good God I was smart enough not to take very risky behavior such as this.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Oddly enough that concrete slope probably saved her life. If it was flat ground the impact would have been more concentrated.

 

[zinfamous]

I would think that a 23 year old college student would actually know better then to do something stupid like this.

why in the everfuck would you think that?

~14-27 are the ages when most people die because of dumbfuckery. It's one of those things that makes us human.[/QUOTE]

 

[whm1974]

why in the everfuck would you think that?

~14-27 are the ages when most people die because of dumbfuckery. It's one of those things that makes us human.

[/QUOTE]
While I did some stupid shit when I was younger I didn't do anything even remotely life threatening stunts such as this, not even close.

 

[BoomerD]

Stupid is as stupid does.

 

[SKORPI0]

I'd be surprised if she wasn't permanently disabled in some way.

Articles says about 3 years of rehab. I’ll be surprised if she completely recovers and maybe be able to walk. Doing something risky like this and knowing what happens when it goes wrong is idiotic In so many levels. I wonder if someone gave her a challenge to do it.

 

[whm1974]

Articles says about 3 years of rehab. I’ll be surprised if she completely recovers and maybe be able to walk. Doing something risky like this and knowing what happens when it goes wrong is idiotic In so many levels. I wonder if someone gave her a challenge to do it.

Even if she recovers and is able to walk, she is still going have remaining issues caused by that much much damage done by the fall. She will have a very tough time with all the necessarily therapy she will have to go through and it real not easy at all.

 

[soulcougher73]

I wonder if she will take up yoga for recovery...,

 

[sdifox]

I always knew yoga was dangerous.

 

[ponyo]

Building picture shows she fell 40 ft and rolled down another 40 ft. She would've died from 80 ft fall.

 

[s0me0nesmind1]

I would think that a 23 year old college student would actually know better then to do something stupid like this. Good God I was smart enough not to take very risky behavior such as this.

Uhhh are you aware of how stupid the kids are coming out of college these days? You're aware kids racking up $100k in debt to get joke degrees with no job market and youre surprised by how stupid these kids are?

 

[darkswordsman17]

why in the everfuck would you think that?

~14-27 are the ages when most people die because of dumbfuckery. It's one of those things that makes us human.

Tale as old as time.

Personally I think they should teach situations like this in physics class. It'd get students to pay more attention so they'd hopefully learn something. I describe all the morons that wrecked their cars by driving highway speeds on gravel backroads around where I grew up. A friend of my oldest sister cheated death, was driving drunk one night, and a farmer for some reason decided to move his grain truck, well the drunk idiot was driving who knows how fast, crested a hill and there was the truck. Plowed into it and nearly ended up with a convertible, and somehow only got bruises out of it because he managed to get pushed down onto the seat. I forget how many kids died from similar shit over the years.

 

[Ajay]

Wow, was she high?

 

[highland145]

Wow, was she high?

Not any more.