NEW YORK, Sept. 1 (UPI) -- A New York man says his son will recover after a 39-story fall from a Manhattan high-rise that left him badly injured but alive.
Thomas Magill, 22, underwent surgery for two broken legs Tuesday night after landing feet-first on the roof of a parked Dodge belonging to a construction worker from Jersey.
"He's stable now," Magill's dad, Thomas Magill Sr., told reporters. "We can only hope he'll be OK".
The incident, an apparent suicide try, had folks on West End Avenue on the Upper West Side buzzing as a bevy of witnesses told reporters how Magill was crying about his injured leg and the blue sneakers he wore that went flying off impact.
"He came down feet-first at like 100 miles per hour" witness Andrew Petrocelli, told the New York Daily News. "That's a miracle if I've ever seen one. He should be a goner".
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