Drunken Fan Breaks Fellow Fan's Neck

An absurd headline? No, well okay maybe, that's exactly what happened last Sunday at Yankee Stadium. An unidentified fan fell down several rows of seats, landing on 53-yr old Paul Robinson of Kirkland, Washington, breaking Robinson's neck. Friends of the reportedly drunken fan, scooped him up and got out of the Stadium without ever checking if Robinson was okay, or apologizing.

"His neck is in a big brace. He's not paralyzed. Luckily, the surgery was very, very successful," said Steven Osborne, a spokesman for Montefiore Medical Center. "And this is a miracle, because that vertebrae, if you go a fraction of an inch, you're paralyzed, or you can't breathe."

The man crashed into Robinson's head, breaking his vertebrae, then came to rest in the next row.

"It felt like my head had been ripped off," Robinson told the Daily News from his hospital bed.

EMT's took Robinson to the hospital, where surgeons put a screw in his neck to help it heal.