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Child tries parachuting out of third story window

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SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO AM) - A four-year old Sioux Falls boy suffered a broken leg when he fell from a third story apartment on East 6th Street yesterday afternoon.

But Lieutenant Kyle Hoekstra says it was a leap of faith.

Hoekstra says the boy open the window from the apartment bedroom, held on to his Teddy Bear and tried using a pillow case as a parachute after jumping out. 

Hoekstra says the boy's grandmother was watching him.  She was in a different room during the incident and couldn't see him.  The was no screen on the window.

No word on where the tyke got the idea.


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