Speaking of people surviving ridiculous falls, when I was in my first year at uni someone in my halls of residence fell from a fifth floor window onto the pavement and survived. As I recall he broke a couple of ribs, both his legs, an arm and lost a few teeth in the process. Apparently the doctors said that the only reason he survived was that he was so drunk he was completely relaxed when he hit. Of course, if he'd been sober he wouldn't have fallen out of the window... Mind you, he was lucky in one way - a metre in either direction and he'd probably have hit the railings rather than the ground.