Gravity got the best of a hapless would-be robber fleeing the scene of a crime, but he did not let a two-story fall hinder his escape.
The New York Police Department on Thursday released surveillance video showing a quartet of suspects - two of them wearing surgical masks - walking down a hallway at Hotel Ninety Five in Queens.
According to the police department, at around 6.20pm on February 24, the four perpetrators entered the hotel on 95th Street in Queens, knocked on a suite door and attempted to rob a 20-year-old guest.
The man was able to thwart the intruders' efforts to enter his room, prompting them to beat a hasty retreat.
Three of the suspects exited through the front door, but the fourth for some reason decided to either descend, or jump out a second-floor window.
Video released as part of the investigation shows a man in a white sweatshirt and pants plummeting to the sidewalk outside the hotel and landing squarely on his face.
Seemingly unfazed by the hard landing, the escapee springs back up and follows his cohorts to a white Mercedes-Benz, which whisks them all away.
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