Drinker caught short fell 100ft into quarry after popping behind bush to have a wee

A DRINKER caught short fell 100ft into a quarry after popping behind a bush to have a wee.

Kitchen fitter Tom Beard, 19, was having a beer with pals in a field at 1am when he ran to some hedges to answer the call of nature.

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Kitchen fitter Tom Beard was having a beer with pals in a field at 1am when he ran to some hedges to answer the call of nature[/caption]

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Tom didn’t realise there was a chalk cliff on the other side and fell 100ft into a quarry[/caption]

But he had not realised there was a chalk cliff on the other side and went tumbling over.

Tom managed to grab a branch and broke his fall 30ft from the quarry floor.

He clung on for more than two hours with two smashed vertebrae, a collapsed lung, five broken ribs and a sprained ankle until firefighters arrived to rescue him in Chatham, Kent.

Tom said he felt lucky to be alive — but was distraught at losing his new £160 Armani mesh trainers in the fall.

He added: “One minute I was rushing for a wee and the next I fell. I had no idea what was happening as I didn’t have a torch.

“I was smashing my head, back and legs all the way down then managed to wrap my legs round a tree. The pain was unreal.

“I’ll be more careful about where I go for a wee in future.”

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Tom managed to grab a branch and broke his fall 30ft from the quarry floor[/caption]

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Tom clung on for more than two hours with two smashed vertebrae, a collapsed lung, five broken ribs and a sprained ankle[/caption]

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Tom said he was lucky to be alive and will ‘be more careful about where I go for a wee in future’[/caption]

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Tom fell into the quarry at Blue Bell Hill, Kent [/caption]

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The quarry at Blue Bell Hill where Tom fell[/caption]

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