Frat dude sleepwalks out window, falls 3-floors
A sophomore at the University of Illinois he had crawled out of the window of his fraternity house at about 3 a.m. and fallen three stories. He shattered a kidney, bruised a lung, injured his spleen and broke eight ribs.
But Platek didn't remember a thing, because he was sound asleep when it happened. "I couldn't tell you what it was like because I was sleepwalking," said Platek, 19. "The scariest thing was waking up in the hospital and I didn't know what had happened."
Platek's girlfriend couldn't stop him from climbing out the window even though she wrapped her arms around his waist and pulled him to the floor. When he climbed onto the window ledge, she grabbed his wrists and tried to pull him back inside before he lost his balance and fell.
Platek, has a history of sporadic sleepwalking that he says began around seventh grade. His mother, Kim McCue, still on occasion finds him walking around the house. Despite the fact that Platek walked in his sleep only two or three times this summer, McCue said she thinks returning to school and changing his major from physics to statistics put her son under stress, contributing to the accident. She and Platek both said he consumed a few alcoholic beverages the night of his fall.
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