Wow.

There's a vid of this on cnn. Look under the videos section of the left-hand menu, then scroll down the list in the popup.

Also reported on the bbc a short time ago.

Happy Christmas!

This child will dream of flying for the rest of its life.

I'd love to think it would also dream of being safely caught.

The guy who caught her is the catcher (on his softball team).

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the pitcher is never going to be able to pass an open window again

i saw the video on tv this morning--amazing...i'm so glad she trusted those strangers enough.

so, did she fry?

Both the baby and mom were treated at Jacobi Hospital and released.

Der Yid has a morbid photostream.

there's a woman trapped in a burning building and there's a huge crowd gathered below her. everyone shouts 'throw the baby, throw the baby!' for she has with her a wee toddler, her one true joy and love in the world. but she cannot do it. she knows that if she keeps the baby with her, the child will perish, but she is terrified that the baby will die if she throws it to the crowd, and cannot countenance her last sight being the death of her child. but then, in the back of the crowd, the doomed woman sees a tall, dark, handsome man. it is ornithald. "O.J.!" she screams, "catch my baby!" and she drops back, pumps twice, and unleashes a perfect spiral, sixty yards at least. the juice is off like a bullet from a rifle. he's dodging vehicles and he tears down the middle of the street, somehow cutting and swerving inches from the bumpers of speeding cars and trucks while never taking his eyes off the baby -- his beautiful, dark eyes track the child's ascent to the top of its flattened parabola, pause there in some sublime geometry for the silentl moment when the baby seems to float, perfectly still, flying smoothly above the earth as though gravity no longer applied to infants if they were sufficiently pure and beautiful and innocent. then, the baby drops, and the powerful, clear eyes drop with it, and the man moves terrifyingly through the street, an unstoppable force that conflicts with the gentleness of his hands in that instant that his eyes and the child both rest in his hand.
then the Juice yells "Touchdown" and spikes it onto a fire hydrant.






what i don't get is why i heard this joke with a running back and not, like, jerry rice or something. this was way before he became famous for other resaons, so it's not that.
shit, it was a lot shorter, too. sorry for that. i guess eight year old sam couldn't have handled more than two or three lines.

Probably inappropriate but that never stopped me before: Derek and Clive.

As I was walking down the street one day
I saw a house on fire
There was man, standing at an upper-storey window
Shouting and screaming at the crowd that was gathered there below
For he was so afraid

"Jump! You fucker, jump!
Jump into this here blanket what we are holding
And you will be all right"

He jumped, hit the deck, broke his fucking neck -
There was no blanket

"Laugh?! We nearly shat!
We had not laughed so much since Grandma died
Or Auntie Mabel caught her left tit in the mangle
We are miserable sinners
Fi-i-ilthy fuckers

Ahhhrrrr-soles"

I used to play that game on my old Tandy!