Young man survives after he impales head on spiked fence in fall

A young musician in New York is lucky to be alive today after he not only survived a fall from a third floor balcony in Chelsea, New York, but also being impaled in the head from a spiked metal fence upon landing. 21 year old Nicholas Blossom had to be cut from the fencing with an electric saw by rescuers, he was taken to Bellevue Hospital, where he is said to be in a stable condition, the musician’s father flew in from California but is too distressed to speak.

It is believed by police that Nick was intoxicated at the time he fell at around 4am on Saturday, whilst attending a party, neighbours called police to report an emotionally disturbed person, however by the time they had arrived Blossom had fallen onto the second-floor balcony of an adjoining apartment building, landing head first on the spiked fence. One bystander, Tiffany Nagel, who was visiting her sister said, “We heard screaming, and we thought someone was trying to break in, medics brought him through our window. He looked like a little boy. He was screaming, and he stopped talking once they got him. He just went silent.”

Nicholas Blossom had attended the party with his band mate Corey Mullee, the pair are in the rock band Alaska Alaska and had arrived at the rooftop party on their bikes, according to police Blossom was sat alone on a window ledge at 4am screaming that he “hated everybody”.

Doctors have said that Blossom’s prognosis is good despite the severity of his injury, Blossoms mother Emily said, “He is out of surgery and making some jokes, the doctor tells us that he was very lucky.”

Picture courtesy of Chris Isherwood

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