<p>In a miraculous save, a young British man, who was slightly "tipsy", has survived a fall from the 15th floor of a building in New Zealand.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Twenty-year-old Tom Stilwell fell from his neighbours' balcony in his apartment block in Auckland yesterday, while trying to lower himself onto his balcony, which was directly below his neighbours'.<br /><br />According to his friends, Stilwell had bone fractures and internal injuries, but was "fine" and "a very lucky man".<br /><br />Stilwell is said to be in New Zealand on a working holiday.<br /><br />Stilwell found himself locked out of his flat early yesterday, and asked a neighbour if he could climb from her balcony into his flat, his friends said.<br /><br />The neighbour, Geraldine Bautista, told the New Zealand Herald that Stilwell was "a little tipsy" but polite.<br /><br />"I wasn't scared of him - he just requested 'Can you please let me jump off from the balcony? I will not bother you, just let me use your balcony,'" said Bautista.<br />"I never thought he would really do that. In my mind I thought 'Okay, I'll just let you see that it's really impossible. I didn't think he'd jump, because it's really scary," she said.<br /><br />However, he quickly pulled himself over the balcony railing before she could stop him, Bautista said.<br /><br />Stilwell's fall was broken by the roof of an adjacent building some 13 floors below.<br />Tony Smith, a medical director at St John, an emergency health-care organisation, said that a person's chances of survival were increased if they were able to break their fall on something.<br /><br />Smith, however, said that "survival from falls of that height are extraordinarily unusual".</p>
<p>In a miraculous save, a young British man, who was slightly "tipsy", has survived a fall from the 15th floor of a building in New Zealand.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Twenty-year-old Tom Stilwell fell from his neighbours' balcony in his apartment block in Auckland yesterday, while trying to lower himself onto his balcony, which was directly below his neighbours'.<br /><br />According to his friends, Stilwell had bone fractures and internal injuries, but was "fine" and "a very lucky man".<br /><br />Stilwell is said to be in New Zealand on a working holiday.<br /><br />Stilwell found himself locked out of his flat early yesterday, and asked a neighbour if he could climb from her balcony into his flat, his friends said.<br /><br />The neighbour, Geraldine Bautista, told the New Zealand Herald that Stilwell was "a little tipsy" but polite.<br /><br />"I wasn't scared of him - he just requested 'Can you please let me jump off from the balcony? I will not bother you, just let me use your balcony,'" said Bautista.<br />"I never thought he would really do that. In my mind I thought 'Okay, I'll just let you see that it's really impossible. I didn't think he'd jump, because it's really scary," she said.<br /><br />However, he quickly pulled himself over the balcony railing before she could stop him, Bautista said.<br /><br />Stilwell's fall was broken by the roof of an adjacent building some 13 floors below.<br />Tony Smith, a medical director at St John, an emergency health-care organisation, said that a person's chances of survival were increased if they were able to break their fall on something.<br /><br />Smith, however, said that "survival from falls of that height are extraordinarily unusual".</p>