How hammered do you have to be to go tumbling down the bleachers at a stadium? Or is the question, why doesn’t it happen more often? Tough call, especially if you’re living in New York. Earlier in the season a 300lb man tumbled onto a female Mets fan at a game. Three months later, it’s a fan broke a tourists neck by crashing into him.
The man crashed into [Paul] Robinson’s head, breaking his vertebrae, then came to rest in the next row.
“It felt like my head had been ripped off,” Robinson told the Daily News from his hospital bed.
EMT’s took Robinson to the hospital, where surgeons put a screw in his neck to help it heal.
Really, you just have to wonder at this point how this doesn’t happen more often, right? It just simply is not safe to go to a game these days — especially in New York. Never know what objects might be falling out of the stands, let alone people.
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Larry Brown has over nine years of professional sports media experience, working in online, radio, and TV capacities. He recently was a nationally syndicated sports radio host. Follow him on twitter @LBSports |
