Jump! (Jump!) You Might as Well Jump! (Jump!)

Tuesday night I was watching TV with Ziad, Dave and Chris and we flipped to the Yankee game. Right about that moment, Derek Jeter laid down a bunt to the pitchers mound and was thrown out at first base but the announcer goes "and so and so fields and throws out - whoa, someone just fell out of the upper deck". What? Then the camera pans to the foul ball net where this Abercrombie & Fitch clad college aged kid is just sitting there, suspended in mid-air by the net, looking completely stunned. There was a big hole where his head must have punctured the net.
So, like a minute of him being dazed goes by and he sort of comes-to and then when it's clear he's not dead or seriously injured - the crowd gets into it. This what I love about New Yorkers, they have such a sense of humor. So everyone is like, "watch out for the hole!", "no, go back to the stands!" (when he was going toward the field). He groggily stands up and slowly starts clumsily walking - on the net - back to the stands. As he gets closer to the mezzanine, the crowd works itself up into a full-fledged roar.
There were a bunch of security guys and cops there who looked pissed-off as a motherfucker and as soon as this dude gets within arms length a cop grabs him by the back of the pants and lifts him the last few feet and holds him in midair by his pants for a few seconds - giving him what must have been an enormous wedgie and escorted him out.
Now, what sucked is that the YES network didn't show the replay of this guy falling out of his seat. Very disappointing.
Anyway, it turns out it was a bet. I read in the paper that he was saying he was going to jump to "see if the net could hold his weigh". Apparently he was standing up in the front row and his friends, soon followed by the rest of the section, started chanting "SIT OR JUMP! SIT OR JUMP! SIT OR JUMP!". Clearly he went with the latter.
I'll take dumb decisions for $500, Alex. It'll be a good story to tell when he's like 30, though.

Only in New York kids, only in New York. (Page six readers will get the reference.)