Myrtle Beach, S.C. – A teenager fell six stories from a hotel balcony but walked away with bruises and scrapes.
Matthew Savage, 17, was reaching up to a balcony one floor above to grab a bathing suit that had fluttered down from the 11th floor when he tumbled over the railing Friday.
The teenager from Gainesville, Ga., hit other balconies on his way down and slammed onto a slanted rooftop, then slid into bushes.
“I just closed my eyes,” said Savage, who is nursing scrapes and bruises on his back and legs.
After landing in the bushes, he got up and started walking back to his room. But paramedics strapped him to a board and flew him to a hospital, where tests showed he was fine.
“This was a ‘God is real’ event,” said his sister, Mandy Baker.
