Naked nutjob who leaped from Brooklyn Bridge and miraculously survived identified
Police have identified the naked nutjob who miraculously survived after jumping off the Brooklyn Bridge Sunday.
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Galymzhan Abaildayev, 44, is facing several charges after he was filmed scaling the bridge’s north tower, stripping his clothes and leaping off the north tower on the Manhattan side of the iconic bridge into the East River.
The Brooklyn native also erected several flags on the top of the bridge before he jumped, including a Kazakhstan flag, sources told The Post.
Abaildayev was quickly fished out of the river by Harbor Unit cops and rushed to Bellevue somehow in stable condition.
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He was charged with reckless endangerment, making graffiti, public lewdness, criminal trespass and disorderly conduct, police announced Monday.
Wild footage from the bridge shows onlookers screaming when Abaildayev jumped off the bridge while appearing to hold a piece of clothing or a bag above his head like a makeshift parachute.
The bridge’s two suspension towers are roughly 278 feet tall.
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