Teen injured in San Diego Sundown Cliffs leap particulars brutal accidents

The boneheaded teen who jumped off San Diego’s well-known Sundown Cliffs in a viral stunt detailed his brutal accidents.

The 17-year-old boy, whose has not been recognized, informed Fox 5 he presently can’t stroll with out the usage of a walker after the terrifying second he hit the rocks.

“I slammed in opposition to the rock and I felt like paralyzed, and I couldn’t transfer,” he mentioned.

“My lungs had been burning, my ribs had been burning, my backbone, it was the weirdest feeling it was simply burning,” he added.

The teenager suffered six compression fractures to his vertebrae and required 9 stitches in his foot however mentioned he didn’t want surgical procedure.

Even with the ache, he reminisced on how fortunate he nonetheless is.

“If I slipped somewhat bit extra and I landed straight on that slab and never within the water, I might in all probability be paralyzed if not useless,” he mentioned.

The leap’s video footage, captured from two completely different angles, reveals the 17-year-old making a run earlier than leaping off the ledge at San Diego’s well-known Sundown Cliffs, a location well-known for unlawful cliff diving.

One video seems to point out he hadn’t totally dedicated to the leap earlier than takeoff, along with his toes persevering with a working movement after changing into airborne. The sloping sand beneath his toes can also have caught him off guard at takeoff.

As an alternative of a easy dive, he slams onto the sting of the rocks earlier than bouncing into the water. Authorities mentioned he was ultimately rescued from the water and brought to a hospital.

Cliff-jumping is prohibited beneath metropolis municipal code, which prohibits leaping or diving into the Pacific Ocean or Mission Bay from any pure or human-made level related to land that’s greater than 5 toes above the water.

“We wish locals and guests to take pleasure in San Diego’s shoreline safely. Please keep again from cliff edges, comply with all posted warnings and by no means leap from cliffs or different elevated areas into the water,”  San Diego Hearth-Rescue Public Data Officer Candace Hadley mentioned.

Nonetheless, the incident hasn’t appeared to discourage different daredevil teenagers.

Fox 5 visited the cliffs days later after the viral leap and discovered teenagers nonetheless doing cliff diving.

 The kids mentioned they had been “aura farming,” a social media time period used to explain doing one thing dangerous or spectacular for clout.

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