Top Ten Reasons

Everyone loves top ten lists, and I'm now up to four on my Top Ten Reasons To Not Live In A Ground Floor Flat:

  1. People walking past look in
  2. You get lots of spiders
  3. Susceptible to flooding
  4. You will have to give witness statements to police while your girlfriend attempts to resuscitate neighbours who jump off their balconies and land on your patio

Apparently, one of our neighbours was on her way to work at about 7am this morning, when another neighbour opened the balcony door of her flat upstairs. She called to the girl across the car park, told her that she was going to kill herself, and jumped over the railings. She hit our patio.

She lay on her side, unable to move, having trouble breathing. The girl called an ambulance, and the woman stopped breathing. The emergency services told Leela to roll the woman onto her back, probably in preparation for CPR, but she started breathing again. More neighbours came out to see if they could help. We opened the gate, and let the rapid response vehicle in. Then the police arrived, followed by an ambulance. They worked on her outside our lounge for about 15 minutes. We gave witness statements while the paramedics defibrillated her. They drove her away, still covered in our blanket.

I don't know what happened after that.

Comments

Steve

Man - that's not pleasant at all! Is she alright?

Did you get your blanket back?

radiac

Due to patient confidentiality, I can't find out how she is. Or indeed if she is alive or dead. Guess we'll have to wait to see if the flat comes onto the market...

And no, we haven't got our blanket back!

I just feel sorry for the girl she jumped in front of - I don't think they even knew each other.

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