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Thu Apr 23, 9:11 pm ET
BLOOMINGTON, Minn. Police said a 23-year-old man is in stable condition after
he pretended that he was falling off a bridge over the Minnesota River, then
actually fell off the bridge. Police got a call just before 5 a.m. Sunday from
a 21-year-old man who said his friend fell off the Highway 77 bridge and into a
marshy area about 30 feet below.
The caller said he was driving north when his friend, who he said had been
drinking, told him to pull into the bridge's emergency lane so he could
urinate.
The 23-year-old stood eventually climbed to the ledge of the bridge, then
looked at his friend and pretended to fall. "He then in fact fell," reads a
press release from the Bloomingtin Police Department.
Police from Bloomington and Eagan responded, and the Eagan Fire Department used
a chair lift to retrieve the man. He was transported to Hennepin County Medical
Center where was treated.