A Canadian judge yesterday released a United States citizen who survived a plunge over Niagara Falls and ordered him to stay out of Canada except for court appearances.
After his brother posted his bail of C$1000 ($1260), Kirk Jones spoke briefly to a swarm of reporters before leaving with a tabloid
television crew.
"Monday, I feel like I reached out and touched the face of God and he smiled," Jones said of his plunge. "I'm feeling very happy to be alive. I ask no one to ever try such a stunt again."
The Michigan man is the only person known to have survived a plunge over the falls without a safety device.
Jones has said despair led him to drop over the falls, but police said he was performing an illegal stunt and arrested him after he was released from hospital.
