ananova wrote:Russian man survives five storey fall - twice
A Russian man survived after downing three bottles of vodka and leaping from a fifth floor balcony - twice.
Alexei Roskov says he jumped the second time because he couldn't take his wife's nagging about the first time.
Wife Yekaterina had watched in horror as her drunken husband opened the kitchen window of their Moscow apartment, and hurled himself out.
Astonishingly Mr Roskov, 22, survived and managed to stagger back upstairs with barely a scratch after the 50ft fall.
But while his wife called for an ambulance and began to scold him, he jumped again.
Amazed medics treated Mr Roskov for minor cuts and bruises before releasing him.
Mr Roskov says he is now teetotal after giving up drinking, and added: "Now I can say just one thing - I was very lucky.
"I have no idea why I jumped the first time but when I came back up and I heard my wife screaming angrily at me I thought it was best if I left the room again - out of the window."
Ever had days like this?
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I've never been one for screaming - I would just have locked the door on him the first time so he couldn't get back in. Unless, of course, I felt like kicking him out the window myself. 
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Yup, sometimes you're gone so down that when your man is standing on the sill and threatening to jump, all you can say is "please just decide, are you getting back in or are you going out, I need to clean the mess here and the draught is disturbing". 
Yeah.
Yeah.