A man fell from a window on the 19th floor of a Cape Town hotel - and survived.
Not only that, but he was conscious and aware enough to speak to those who found him.
Police confirmed Nicholas du Plooy had fallen from the 19th floor of the Cape Town Ritz Hotel in Sea Point, famous for its 21st-floor restaurant with sweeping views of Green Point, the back of Signal Hill and the Atlantic Seaboard.
Despite multiple fractures, by Wednesday evening hospital staff said he had been moved to an orthopaedic ward. He was "stable, talking and fine".
The amazing plunge happened near midnight on Tuesday.
Gino Del Giovine, of the nearby Italian restaurant Piccolo Mondo on Main Road, said two men had rushed in. "They said, 'Hey, we've just seen a guy flying off the top of the Ritz!'
"I thought they were on acid or drugs or something. I asked them what they were on." But they convinced him to follow them to the hotel.
"I was expecting a real mess," Del Giovine admitted. But when they arrived in front of the hotel they saw nothing.
"But then we heard this guy shouting from a window right at the top of the hotel," he said. The man called to them, almost matter-of-factly: "Hey, have you seen the guy who fell from my window?"
Occupying the ground floor of the hotel is the reception, which stretches out into the parking lot. They realised the man may have landed on its roof.
Del Giovine sprinted into the hotel and spoke to the concierge, who took them to the second floor.
There, they climbed out of the window of Room 203 and dropped down onto the roof of the ground-floor reception area.
They saw a body which had fallen through the metal roofing sheets and landed on a wooden ceiling about a metre below.
But they were even more amazed to hear Du Plooy calling them.
"He said, 'I need help, my neck is in pain'," Del Giovine said.
Police and an ambulance crew were alerted and Du Plooy was taken to Groote Schuur.
Police said the 18-storey fall had left the man with two broken arms, a broken leg and a neck injury.
"The roofing sheets must have cushioned his fall," Del Giovine said later.