Man who jumped into freezing cold sea ‘probably saved by beers’

Oh no, crazy British news that will probably make a lot of us drink beer, ‘just in case’

A man left close to death after leaping from the Herne Bay pier into the sea may have been saved by the eight beers he drank before jumping.

He and a pal stripped to their underwear and plunged into the cold water after a drinking session.

But the foolish pair had to be rescued by emergency crews after struggling for 45 minutes to get ashore. […]

“The paramedics said that it probably kept him alive, because his body had slowed down so much that it might have helped him.

Read more on KentOnline

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Photo courtesy of William Warby, CC BY 2.0

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