Woman Paralyzed from the Waist Down After Man Falls Onto Her During Music Festival

“He shouldn’t have been up there,” Jamie Ushoffer said of the man who fell on her

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  • Jamie Ulshoffer was left paralyzed from the waist down after a man fell from a tree and landed on her during the Louder Than Life music festival in Kentucky on Sept. 18
  • “He shouldn’t have been up there … Stupid decision. You did this, but I’ll forgive,” she said
  • The incident left Jamie with a severed spinal cord, making it likely that she will “never be able to walk again”

A woman is paralyzed from the waist down after a man fell from a tree and landed on top of her during a music festival.

On Friday, Sept. 18, Jamie Ulshoffer was at the Louder Than Life music festival at the Kentucky Exposition Center when a man suddenly fell from a nearby tree and landed directly on top of her, according to ABC affiliate WHAS and First Coast News.

“We were actually at the backside of the tent and there’s four trees in the back … We were on the back right corner,” her husband, Conor Ulshoffer, told WHAS at the hospital. “I turn around and see her on her back … Then everyone said some dude fell out of a tree.”…

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