University of Georgia student dancing on couch near window falls 8 stories and survives

A University of Georgia student survived a plunge from her eighth-floor apartment, authorities said Monday, after she had been “dancing on a couch near a window” and fell out.
The terrifying fall from the Rambler Athens Apartments at 558 W. Broad St. in Athens happened at about 7:30 p.m. Saturday, according to police records.
The “student was dancing on a couch near a window that was open” and “fell from the 8 th floor window and landed on the pool deck below,” the Athens-Clarke County Police Department said in a statement to NBC News.
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