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Teen takes leap of faith

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    Jumps off chairlift during lightning storm

  • Duration 2:46
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Site thinks thanks much -- here's another fear of -- being trapped on -- sky -- would have lightning storms about to break out this video scary have to make your stomach drop in New Jersey -- jumps -- an amusement park ride watch this.

Suspended thirty feet in -- There -- nothing but the ground below to break her fall young woman is Melanie -- among -- she survived that fall with only some minor injuries she's our guest this morning nice to see you this morning.

Same -- so no major injuries and -- nominate her entry is.

And I'm sure your mom was happy I am dissidents so you were down at the beach and all of a sudden you saw a storm approaching yet and you thought but I have enough time I can take the sky right take me through this well we didn't see it when -- first.

Getting ready gonna -- -- it was actually beautiful out and then.

As we got up there about five minutes until -- Billick I don't know there's lightning in the distance -- -- it's fine we'll get authorized by the time it reaches us.

But little did we know how fast the storm -- travel lane and the right eventually stopped as we were about to get off and we were just freaking out.

So you thought you could get off the right it was going to be fine he sees dark storm plus you can see in this video coming up approaching you in would you do you called your mom.

I called my -- -- motorcycle riders got -- -- and she can hear me so.

We current economy my friend and really we're dumping by dumping I was like our dumping into the sky jump and mailed it okay and it has jumped Armageddon and of course we look in she didn't -- -- she said there you go first okay you -- a few simple things.

You fell 35 feet have about thirty feisty she stayed up there and the -- just continued on that are just stopped until the storm passed over ride stopped.

And then mum about fifteen minutes after I jumped.

Ride started up again they got the ambulance -- Every illness and other -- been back and generate data just got I was OK to be honest I was there any -- six nearby that caused you to make that final -- yeah a lot of people are saying that oh I should've realized that the storm was in the distance but you can't tell on the video of -- storm has literally read above -- there a lightning strikes around us and I even saw a tornado on the distance and although vanished quickly it's -- scary to see that the wind was but it's moving so fast all these people on the -- it is seem to be stroll along enjoying their funnel cake did anybody jumped out and help you yeah actually one man nick still 'cause he jumped off.

He was with the -- is actually an off duty AMP jumped off and grabbed me he.

Took me under the boardwalk for safety because pulling in his right and he stayed -- me the whole time this.

Really -- I don't know what I would of them without him so mom want.

From this point hoping you don't do something like this -- yet knowing thanks for joining us -- and thanks for sharing your story I'm glad you love.

I'm glad you're safe this morning and we should they dug -- give us some credits is the person was shooting some video of this whole thing -- Gonzales who is off the site shooting video of -- dad dad but I'm now I can't believe it caught on tape but cannot expect that at all.

He was -- what was happening -- -- Melvin.

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