Boston daredevils have been warned to stop hurling themselves from their windows into mounds of snow or dangerous snowbanks.
Boston Mayor Martin Walsh leader slammed snow "divers" who have been posting videos of themselves leaping out of roofs and windows into piles of snow, The Huffington Post reported.
"It's a foolish thing to do, and you could kill yourself," Walsh said at a briefing detailing the city's snow response efforts on Tuesday. "So I'm asking people to stop the nonsense right now."
Monday's storm piled another 16 inches of snow on the city, bringing Boston's total snow accumulation to 90 inches since Jan. 23, according to the mayor's office. With more than 17,000 truckloads of snow already having been removed this winter season, the city is fast approaching the record total snowfall of 107 inches.
The mayor's comments come as cabin fever-crazed residents have been filming themselves bound off buildings or out of second-story deck windows into massive piles of snow, and then sharing the videos online.
"This isn't Loon Mountain, this is the city of Boston, where we're trying to remove snow off of the street and it becomes very dangerous," Walsh said, referring to a popular ski area in New Hampshire.
"And the last thing we want to do is respond to an emergency call where somebody jumped out of the window because they thought it was a funny thing to do."
However the mayor's warning evoked contrasting reactions, according to New York Daily News.
Christina Phaup, 25, said that she hadn't heard of anyone jumping out of their windows before Walsh's speech, but now it's going on her to-do-list.
"I haven't had contact with the outside world in days," Phaup told The Huffington Post, who was snowed in at her apartment over the long weekend.
Since many snowbanks are hiding patches of ice or objects that could cause physical harm, the stunts could prove to be extremely dangerous, Dr. Tom Nowicki, an emergency physician in Hartford, Connecticut, told WFSB.
"There could be anything underneath that's covered by the snow," he said. "It can certainly be life-threatening."
"It would be very unfortunate to break your neck and lose function of your arms and legs from something that was intended to be fun," he added.
