"The teenaged boy was the victim of what local news sources called a "social-media challenge" or "TikTok stunt" gone awry. He'd been with a group of friends who were filming the exploit, and who fled the scene without calling for help for fear of getting arrested - though, naturally, they also immediately posted video of the accident to social media."
"What transpired next was a high-wire search-and-rescue, a video of which is posted on the Citizen App Instagram page. The teen, whose limp body can be seen being lowered in a harness along what looks like a guy-line, was taken to a Gotham hospital. He reportedly has hypothermia, among other presumed injuries, and is in critical but stable condition. Comments on the shaft-boy rescue video on the apps are predictably ghoulish, along the lines of: he got what was coming to him, lol."
A 16-year-old boy fell about 50 feet down an internal access shaft inside one tower of the Queensboro Bridge while with friends who were filming a social-media challenge. Friends fled without calling for help and posted video of the accident; bystanders circulated clips showing the boy's foot and him pleading while blood pooled around the shaft. Police were alerted three to four hours later. Emergency teams executed a high-wire search-and-rescue and lowered the limp teen in a harness; he was hospitalized with hypothermia and other presumed injuries, in critical but stable condition. Online reactions were largely ghoulish, and the incident ties to an urbex subculture.
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