College Student Hit By Mattress From Skyscraper

You know how they say not to drop pennies from skyscrapers? Well the same goes for mattresses, and here’s why.

A college freshman was back on his feet Wednesday — a day after a mattress fell 30 stories from a Manhattan building and landed on his head.

Jesse Scott Owen, 18, said his sense of humor helped him overcome the neck and back pain he suffered from the futon mattress, which knocked him out cold on Broad St. about 12:45 p.m. Tuesday.

“This was the most absurd thing that ever happened to me,” he told the Daily News.

Owen, who moved to the city three weeks ago from Florida to attend King’s College in lower Manhattan, said he was on his way to a class when he suddenly lost consciousness.

“I woke up and people were putting me on the mattress,” he said. “I asked where the mattress came from and they said, ‘You were knocked out by it.’ ”

Well then life isn’t all that bad now is it? It’s not often that the cause of the injury is also the solution. Just think, it could have been the box frame or worse, a Serta.

Poor kid thought that his move to New York was going to be the change needed in his life, but like a metaphor from the heavens, the real world knocked the shit out of him and sense into him.

Be wary of the skies, you never know what furniture may be falling; especially, since some genius thought to add upstairs Ikea’s in malls.

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