Tim Bargfrede told Local 6 News that he was following friends when he attempted to garage jump and did not make it to the other side. Bargfrede fell six stories and was knocked unconscious on impact.
"I just didn't make it," Bargfrede said.
Bargfrede survived the 80-foot fall but was injured.
The truth is he's lucky to be alive after a fall like that. I expect his injuries are more than just a bump to the head.
Of course, we all know who's responsible for this, right? When a young person wilfully and deliberately engages in behavior that anyone with more sense than a peanut knows is patently dangerous, whose fault is it? Why, it's the city and the garages' fault, of course!
There are no safety fences in place on the parking garage.
D'Assaro [attorney for the Bargfrede family -RR] is filing a lawsuit against the city of Orlando and the private garage owner for making little effort to correct a potential deadly risk.
"There was a very, very short length of fence that was completely ineffective in preventing this from happening," D'Assaro said.
You. Have. Got. To. Be. Yanking. My. Chain. What, did the garage owner take young Mr. Bargfrede up to the sixth floor and force him to make that jump? Did they have a sign up there that said, "Jumping across to the other garage is a fun and perfectly safe activity?"
Unbelievable. Although I hope the judge throws the case out with an admonishment to stop waisting the court's time, it wouldn't surprise me if the city and the garage end up settling out of court for some ridiculous sum. In this case, "ridiculous" means anything more than zero dollars.
The responsibility lies squarely on the shoulders of the kids who are doing this dangerous activity, and those of their parents who are failing abjectly to raise their children with even the remotest shred of common sense.
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