Student stuck between 2 buildings for 2 days

[Nicholas]

 

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A college student reported missing by friends was recovering on Monday after being pulled from a narrow space between two buildings in New York City, where he had been trapped for up to two days, fire officials said.

 

Asher Vongtau, 19, an undergraduate at New York University, was found conscious and moaning Sunday afternoon after somehow becoming wedged in a crevice between a five-story parking garage and a 17-story dormitory building in Lower Manhattan, university officials said.

 

It took firefighters 90 minutes to extract Vongtau from an approximately 18-inch-wide gap between the buildings. Crews had to drill through a cinderblock wall to get to him, according to a spokesman with the New York City Fire Department.

 

He was taken to Bellevue Hospital in critical condition, the spokesman said. On Monday, his condition was reported to be serious.

 

The only way into the gap appeared to be from the roofs of the buildings.

 

"The circumstances of how the student came to be in this space are unclear to us," John Beckman, vice president for Public Affairs at NYU, said in a statement.

 

Vongtau was not a resident of the building where he was discovered, Beckman said. He declined to confirm local media reports that the student was from Nigeria.

 

Vongtau's friends had first reported him missing on Saturday and campus police were able to narrow down his whereabouts by tracing where he had used his electronic ID card for entry.

 

While searching the dormitory, a public safety officer found some of Vongtau's possessions and then discovered him stuck and groaning in the crevice.

 

It was not yet known how long he had been wedged in the space.

 

Poor boy was found only because they found his phone on the rooftop!

 

Video report in source:

http://news.yahoo.com/student-wedged-between-york-buildings-two-days-freed-173915684.html

[Camrysfa]

no small miracle that he was found alive.......

could have suffocated before help arrived?

wow, the ID card was his saviour.

USA such narrow gaps btw buildings common?

[JackRabbit]

 

The only way into the gap appeared to be from the roofs of the buildings.

 

Dafuq was he doing clambering about the roofs of buildings?!

 

Must be ninja or assasin's creed.

[Vid]

He's probably trying some stunts at the rooftop and fell into the gap. Damn lucky to be still alive.

[Jman888]

maybe he was up to something not good?

 

either climbing into gf's room or

[Ender]

Free Running gone wrong?

[JLaw]

I thought is some big fat american... turns out is not.

 

Some think black guy.

 

[Nicholas]

The news did say he's Nigerian. The picture you've posted below reminds me of The Matrix scene.

 

 

I thought is some big fat american... turns out is not.

 

Some think black guy.

 

 

[1fast1]

As to why he was trying to climb up onto roofs, the T-shirt says it all.

[Albeniz]

As to why he was trying to climb up onto roofs, the T-shirt says it all.

He wore the wrong shirt. Shouldn't it be spidey?

[Maxus-MIFA9]

He wore the wrong shirt. Shouldn't it be spidey?

 

He forgot to unfold his wings before flight and slip through the walls ...

[1fast1]

He wore the wrong shirt. Shouldn't it be spidey?

 

Batman also likes to climb up buildings, drop crooks off buildings, "float" off buildings, etc. etc.

 

If he was spidey, he should have been climbing *up* the walls of the building. Not like this. This is more Batman.

Edited November 8, 2013 by Turboflat4

[Albeniz]

 

Batman also likes to climb up buildings, drop crooks off buildings, "float" off buildings, etc. etc.

 

If he was spidey, he should have been climbing *up* the walls of the building. Not like this. This is more Batman.

okay, I buy that wings unfolded theory.

[JackRabbit]

As to why he was trying to climb up onto roofs, the T-shirt says it all.

 

[1fast1]

 

 

Na na na na na na na na BATMAN!!!

[Throttle2]

He must have been doing "parkour"

[Nicholas]

Lol, thanks to u and Turbo, become joke topic.