After 26 year old Vangelis Kapatos was standing on his 9th story window ledge about to jump out and end his life, authorities were sure that he wasn't expecting the massive heap of garbage awaiting his decent.
Sanitation workers in New York city have not collected the trash since December 26th of last year due to freak snow storms and the hiloday season. In effect, mountians of garbage lined the streets of New York several feet high, which served as a soft and unsuccessful landing for Kapatos.
Because of the suicidal jump Kapatos was hospitalized in a critical but stable condition on monday, and his family's complaints about the lack of garbage pickup have all but dissappeared.
"Everybody is complaining that the trash hasn't been picked up," Kapatos' aunt said on Monday. "But me, I'm thankful that it was never picked up."
New York mayor Michael Bloomberg stated eariler this week that he expects his workers to be caught up with all the trash collection by this friday(1/7/11): all 77,000 tons of it since last christmas.
"It will take a few days to catch up," Bloomberg states, "But they're out there today and hopefully in the next three to four days, we'll be done with it."
Supposed depression triggered Kapatos to jump from his 9th story building, in addition to worry for eviction from his apartment, and his loss of finicial aid.
Now he has a medical bill to add to his expenses.....just saying.
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