A college student is alive after a mattress fell 30 stories onto his head. The young man was knocked unconscious, but miraculously survived without serious injury.
Jesse Owen said most students land on a futon mattress sometime in their college career, but he never imagined hed have a futon mattress land on him instead.
"Im happy. Im lucky to be alive," Owen told CBS 2′s Hazel Sanchez on Wednesday night.
The Kings College student just finished class on Tuesday afternoon and was walking along Broad Street in Lower Manhattan when the mattress, possibly from a rooftop spa, fell some 30 stories off a building onto Owens head.
"I definitely felt something nail me in the head and then it was like swoomp and I was just out," Owen said.
The freshman was knocked unconscious and had no idea what happened when he opened his eyes to see several people at his side trying to help him.
"I wake up a couple seconds later and people are pushing me onto a mattress, But like Dont move, dont move. And Im like What happened? Why am I on a mattress? And theyre like, It just fell on you and knocked you out," Owen said.
