Tourist hurt in fall from cliff
A tourist suffered cuts and bruises after sliding 250 feet down a cliff on California’s coast.
Twenty-year-old Jost Ben of Wilnsdorf, Germany, had been tossing a football with friends Sunday at a traffic pullout 400 feet above the Pacific. After a stray toss, he climbed over the edge to retrieve the football.
Monterey County Sheriff’s Sgt. Garrett Sanders says Ben “just started sliding.” A sheriff’s team rappelled down, strapped Ben to a harness and helped him scale the cliff.
Ben was treated for a gash to his face and other cuts.
He wasn’t able to recover the football, but Sanders noted: “He’s lucky he’s alive.”
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