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Oh dear. Didn't hear about this one until today. Forgive the delay. It seems a woman fell from an apartment balcony at the Fox Plaza building -- affectionately known as Crystal Tower to less desirable ilk). According to reports, "the woman fell from 'a very high floor' of the 29-story building, located at 1390 Market Street." She crash landed on Polk street, between Market and Hayes.
The unidentified woman "was taken to the hospital with a severe gash on the top of her head." No word yet why or how she fell from the balcony.
Fox Plaza sits on the on the former site of the Fox Theatre (1929 - 1963).
Update: An alternate theory emerges. A piece of cement from the building, not a female, fell off the building and hit a pedestrian. Ow.
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As soon as I heard about this I thought of the scene in Forest Gump where Jenny is on the balcony and Freebird is playing.
Also, Brock, I think you're racking up a ratio of 1 meth reference for every four posts. It's like a cry for help or something.
If she "fell" from a "very high floor," is "a severe gash on the top of her head" a euphemism for something?
The loss of the fox theatre was one of the biggest architectural losses in SF history - period.
She fell from the 29th floor, AND LIVED? Why do I feel like I'm the only one that finds this surprising? Oh never mind.
i've been wondering since I've heard this news, exactly how high of a fall did she take?
no word yet on which floor, exactly.
Nobody fell from a high floor! You are just taking a story from SFAppeal without ever fact-checking the information.
http://sfappeal.com/alley/2009/08/woman-falls-from-high-floor-of-fox-plaza-expected-to-recover.php
And they never did their homework either. Ianwelles is correct, a piece of cememnt fell off the building and hit a pedestrian. THAT IS THE REAL STORY!
it wasn't taken from sfappeal. it was taken from the examiner as noted in the post. speaking of fact checking...
Oh sorry, you got that from the Examiner. Wow, just wow.
Falling from 29 stories and living isn't normal.
But on meth it is.
girlfriend just told me some guy was on the edge of the stockton tunnel about to jump. It shut down the bus lines and everything else obviously. I was just wondering why would you jump there? It can't be much more than 2-3 stories
he would have suffocated on a pink shopping bag.
manys : Thanks for the laugh!
I live at Fox Plaza and came home right after the "incident." No one fell. A piece of cement fell off the building and hit a pedestrian. The lowest floor you could fall off of is 14 and no one is getting just a gash on their head from that. Their guts guts would be splayed out both ends...
this update ruined my "talk about the manhattanization of san francisco" joke.
Yeah, I was by fox today and the whole front of the building has fire/police tape and police barricades blocking off access.
Agreed with above...if anyone falls out of fox, a mighty thud and blood will soon follow.
If more people would jump out the top floors of that hell hole piece of shit the city would be much nicer.
Come on people, let's get to work!
@ RobInSF - Why do't you get things started?
I'm nor poor enough to live in that shit hole and wouldn't be caught dead in the post office either.
Thanks for letting us know that Rob.
During the anti-war protests against the first invasion of Iraq, in the 90s, someone in the Fox tower through some heavy potted plants down into the crowd in the middle of Market. A guy was hit and knocked out cold right in front of me. I think he lived but I'm not sure. I've always thought that place was full of Michael Savage types ever since then.
A piece of *concrete* fell off the building. Cement is the glue that holds concrete together and very rarely falls off of buildings.
(This is a structural engineer's greatest pet peeve.)
If someone jumped/fell from Fox Plaza, it wouldn't be in the news. It happens a lot (people that live there say once a year on average, the one year I lived there it happened once, not that that means anything), as far as I can see it never makes the news.
If a person fell from a high floor of a 29 story building and only suffered a severe gash on the head, that would be news. That is not what happened however.
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