Man's head impaled on spiked fence
A 21-year-old musician has survived a fall from a New York City balcony in which his head was impaled on a spiked metal fence.
Police say Nicholas Blossom was drunk at a party in Manhattan's Chelsea neighbourhood when he fell from a third-floor balcony at around 4am on Saturday.
He landed head first on the fence of the second-floor balcony of an adjoining building.
Rescuers used an electric saw to detach Blossom, who plays drums in a rock band called Alaska Alaska, from the fence.
He was taken to Bellevue Hospital, where he was said to be in a stable condition.