I Believe I Can Fly
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Posted: August 28th, 2006 | Filed under: Need To KnowA 60-year-old man, apparently drunken, jumped five stories off the roof of his Hell’s Kitchen apartment at about 10:30 last night and was barely injured, cops said.
The first thing Alexander Mikhailov asked cops for when he got up: a drink.
“I don’t know how he survived it,” said a police source at the scene of the fall from the top of 527 W. 47th St.
It was broken by some “potted plants” on an elevated level of a building behind Mikhailov’s, the source said. He was taken to St. Vincent’s hospital in stable condition, officials said.