The Josh Innes Show - Pirates Fan Falls 21 Feet...

Episode Date: May 1, 2025

First off, I'm shocked more people don't fall out of the stands at sporting events. Second, I'm not convinced our friend here fell. The video makes me think he may have jumped. But, why would he? It's weird. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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is about 21 feet up. And this dude falls out of there and just smashes to the ground and now he's in critical condition. First off, I'm shocked that more people don't fall at sporting events because sporting events are just giant bars, but with live sports happening

instead of watching them on TV and a lot more stairs than you're going to find at normal bars, right? Like you go to a ball game and they're now serving beer into the eighth inning. People are getting hammered. I mean, almost every time I've ever gone to a ballpark, I've had a good number of beers. There have been some times I've been to ballparks, don't even remember being there.

One in particular. Talk about relatability for the 97.5 job went to a Cardinals Phillies game it was probably not too long before I got whacked and some people think this is why I got whacked it's not why I got whacked but um I guess it would have been in August so it was not that long before I got fired but the ball game it's kind of a rainy day. Cardinals are an okay team. The Phillies stink.

And kind of a small crowd. And it was a weird game where the first inning took like two hours. It felt like it took like an hour just for one inning. So in the matter of an inning, I drank like two 25-ounce beers. And then I decided, you know what? I'm going to try to drink nine 25-ounce beers over the course of a nine-inning game, which I successfully did. And at one point, I ended up on the Jumbotron dancing and shit. So it was a fine time. And I had a video. I was doing a video diary of how this was going. All that said, do not remember leaving the ballpark. Because what is nine 25-ounce beers? If we assume that every because i but i think it was more than nine i think i ended up having like 10 so if you do the math on it right

you've got 25 times let's say 20 say i had 10 that's 250 divided by 12 i drank it's absurd to think this but i drank essentially 20 beers over the course of a baseball game. I'm basically Wade Boggs' legendary status, right? So why did I bring this up? Oh, because people get hammered at baseball games all the time. They get hammered at sporting events all the time. A lot of these stadiums have very narrow stairs. A lot of these stadiums are kind of small, narrow. The stairs are at a steep

incline. Like, we've heard stories of people dying at ballparks. Like, I think it was in New York at one time that some guy tried to like ride the escalator rail down and died in front of his kids. Like, bro, what the fuck are we doing? What are you doing? So I'm just shocked that this shit doesn't happen more often. And now with the nets and everything, I'm like, it's obvious that more people aren't going to get clocked in the head with balls. I'm shocked that more people didn't die at baseball games taking a line drive to the skull. But anyway, I'm just shocked that this doesn't happen more frequently. Because if you sit in the front row of any section, you're going to have a very kind of low rail because you don't want things blocking your view, right? So like my season tickets in Houston for the Astros, you had that elevated part on the aisle where it's kind of elevated.

They put a piece of plexiglass there, but it still makes it difficult to see. So it's kind of a pain in the ass. But that's the elevated part. As you work your way into the seats more, they lose that elevated part. And the fact that more people don't oops i stumbled and fall over that's pretty remarkable now if you haven't seen the video uh you can check that out wherever it's everywhere and all these outlets are like make sure you know that this is graphic content but please click on it we want you to see this guy falling maybe to his death if nothing else falling to his permanent paralysis and brain deadedness more than likely fell 20 feet but anyway so here's the story about it and this is why I'm skeptical of this like every story says

guy fell down I've watched this video many times and I think that what's happening here is like a big hit happens he like jumps up and falls over but if you watch this I don't know that this guy fell maybe I'm a conspiracy theorist unsolved mysteries whatever I think this guy jumped because if you watch the way he fell and I don't know how you fall from 20 something feet right like I don't know how you're supposed to fall. But I feel like if you're falling and you are of sound mind and you realize, holy shit, I fell. Mind you, 20 feet is a fast fall. It's not like you have a lot of time to think. But I feel like if you're going to fall 20 feet, you're at least going to try to, like, move your legs into a position where you land on your legs.

Now, you're going to break both of your legs more than likely where you land on your legs now you're gonna break both your legs more than likely but at least you may not die this dude like lands on his face and never seems to make an attempt like he was just free falling bro so i wonder like this again this is my conspiracy i'm sure look you can't watch the video and be like oh yeah i don't i don't think this is even remotely possible you watch the video and be like, oh yeah, I don't think this is even remotely possible. You watch the video and you have to think it's possible. Because you never hear about people falling off of this. So how did you fall?

What exactly happened? Did like you stand up to jump and your seat didn't flip back up so you tripped? Like it would have to be some, again, maybe I'm being unfair. It would have to be some super, super final destination type shit for that to work out. You'd have to have been super hammered. It would have had to have been a situation where you stand up to celebrate this hit. You step on your shoelace and fall forward. But if you notice when the guy, quote unquote, unquote falls it's almost like he leaps forward right like he kind of like like he's in the air he's elevated he jumps and watching this video

i feel like our old buddy here jumped on purpose maybe we'll never know i think he's still in critical condition i don't know if he's died or if he's paralyzed or what it was gnarly man like you watch that but i'm fascinated by these kind of things have you ever heard about like the number of people that used to jump off the empire state building before they put up all these things that make it almost impossible for you to jump off like giant high fences and shit you used to be able to walk up to the top of the Empire State Building and just basically you're looking over the edge and that's the fucking edge and see you later, right? Like that's kind of how it used to be. So people used to commit suicide from the

Empire State Building pretty frequently. There's one that's a really historic, iconic shot of this woman who jumped off the Empire State Building, landed directly on top of a car, smashed the car, right? She lands back down. Her arms are crossed. I mean, she just lands right. I mean, it's perfect landing and everything. They said they tried to pick her up, and her body was basically liquid. Like, it's fucking crazy.

Now, granted, that's the Empire State Building. This is 20 feet. May kill you, may not, but you're going to be fucked up either way. I don't believe when I watch this video that this guy fell. Now, I'll go back and watch it again, but it would have to be a very Final Destination-like fall and circumstance for this to happen. I'm going to watch it again. Let's see. Content warning, disturbing footage.

So here we go. He stands up like, I just, I don't buy it. I don't buy that he fell, right? I'm watching it. But maybe he does. Maybe he does. But like, how do you fall that way? Like, it just, like, the way he springs out of his seat feels like he's jumping from sitting down and jumping over the rail.

That's what that feels like there. Dude, it's wild. Like I'm trying, I'm trying to make sense of this. Like the only way that it would happen on accident is he jumps out of his seat and then somehow like his like there is no way he jumped and left like he like there's no way he just fell over there's no way and then you watch him fall i mean it's a quick fall so like hmm what would have happened if the ball would have been hit out in that direction and like homeboy in right field is trying to pick up the ball and there's just this lifeless body.

Y'all want to see a dead body? Just laying there in the outfield. What is the ground rule for that? Okay, hypothetical. Let's say old buddy here whacks one into right field, but the same thing happens. Guy falls over and he's laying there probably maybe dead sort of dead certainly in critical condition if he falls and the ball

gets wedged under him is there a ground rule for that like does the guy in the right field just put up both hands to signal like hey ball stuck where's the ball stuck under this guy I don't know what would have happened in that scenario but I don't know that this guy fell like he just sprung up so much that I find it hard to believe but I don't know I just don't get the vibe that he fell I don't know what you guys think I don't think that that was a fall. I think there was a jump. But again, why would you jump from 20-something feet? I don't know. There's a lot of questions. Anywho, more to come.