Parking Attendant Backs Mercedes Out 5th Floor Window

An attendant at a parking garage at University and 12th Street is lucky to be alive, but he'll be even luckier to get his job back after driving a 2009 Mercedes SUV out a 5th floor window yesterday. The owner of the garage thinks the attendant was confused by the vehicle's new-fangled steering wheel gear-change buttons and may have pressed "R" for reverse, instead of "D" for drive. The result was a two-story fall down onto the roof of an adjacent building, which the attendant survived with only minor injuries. The Mercedes, however, is totaled; a blogger for Style Rumor happened to be shopping nearby and has photos of the wreck. As of this morning, what's left of the car was still stuck behind the garage, and police sources told Fox 5 they may need a crane to hoist it out...which means this could get a lot worse before it gets better.