Jun 20 2008
Cliff (of the sort one may plunge over)
Man and dog survive cliff plunge
Authorities say a man and his dog survived a 200-foot fall down a remote cliff face in Dorset.
Coast guards say the man’s car went over a cliff near the town of Swanage early Sunday morning.
They say the man was found barely conscious near the crumpled wreckage of his vehicle. The car had crashed onto a large ledge on the cliff face. Both the man’s legs were broken.
Local police believe the man was thrown clear of his vehicle when it fell halfway down the 400-foot cliff.
The coast guards say the man’s dog, a black New Zealand sheepdog named Zin Zan, could not be found at the scene - but the dog later made its own way home and was discovered underneath the kitchen table.
(HT: Metro.co.uk, by way of Drawn Cutlass) As Cutlass points out, the interesting point is the caption, which would lead you to wonder if there are cliffs of the sort over which one might not plunge.
