Teenager who fell from 23
floors high rise balcony miraculously survived after a macho stunt to
"impress a girl".
Lovestruck Alexander
Shadrin, 16, fell was conscious when paramedics arrived at the scene.
The Russian teenager had
climbed over the railing of the balcony at his home in Novosibirsk, Siberia
prove his bravado to a female friend, said eyewitnesses to the Siberian Times.
But he could not hold on
and went crashing to certain death - but for the Renault Logan parked below
Shadrin suffered 'serious
injuries' but is stable in intensive care, said reports.
Pictures from the scene
show the roof of the car buckled and the rear window smashed.
But the Renault saved the
boy by "cushioning his fall", according to reports.
The teenager "climbed
over the balcony rails, clung on for sometimes but then couldn't hang on any
longer, and fell onto a car parked below," said the Novosibirsk branch of
the Investigative Committee, Russian equivalent of the FBI.
The driver was not inside
his vehicle at the time, reported The Siberian Times.
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