Fisticuffs and Falls

By Matt Wood in News on Oct 2, 2006 12:22PM

You've seen those fights in the old western movies, where a strapping cowboy-type like John Wayne cleans some desperado's clock and the bad guy crashes through a window. Usually he tumbles onto the boardwalk just a few feet below, staying conscious long enough to hear a one-liner from The Duke. The justice is humiliating, but not all that dangerous.

Two men in the Marquette Park neighborhood were duking it out early Sunday morning, but unfortunately for them, there wasn't a horse watering trough right outside the windowsill. They crashed through an apartment window and fell three stories to the ground. Both are in "guarded" condition in the hospital, likely wishing they'd tried arm wrestling or a drinking contest instead.