He wanted to give himself a kiss, he ended up in the emergency room. A young man in his twenties had the very bad idea of trying to kiss the majestic Jet d’Eau in Geneva, Switzerland, which springs from Lake Geneva 140 meters high, reports the daily. 20 minutes Swiss.
He crossed the water jet access barrier on Monday evening despite the formal ban on approaching it, witnesses reported daily. He first tried to put his face on the nozzle, from which the water gushes out at nearly 200 km / h or 500 liters per second, according to figures from the Geneva Industrial Services (GIS), which manages the ” the city’s most famous monument. Unsurprisingly, the young man found himself violently thrown back.
After the kiss, the hug
But the reckless did not stop there. After coming to his senses, he decided to surround the jet with both arms, the daily recounts. This time, the force of the water propelled him in the air several meters and he fell back on the slab which surrounds the nozzle, before throwing himself into the water. It was then that the police, alerted by witnesses, went to fish him out. “The agents came to ask for the Jet d’eau to be cut off urgently so that they could pick it up,” said a witness to 20 minutes.
The police “rescued him and hoisted him” into their boat, said Aline Dard, spokesperson for the Geneva police. Supported by an ambulance, the young man was taken to the University Hospitals of Geneva. His condition was not immediately known. The SIG announced that they were going to lodge a complaint, as they systematically do in the event of a breach of the security perimeter.