scaling a steel shaft on the Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge Feb. 17<\/a>, as they climbed through tiny doorways and up tight ladders.<\/p>\nA bird\u2019s eye view of the city \u2014 with the East River far below \u2014 can be seen in the background of the footage wherein the teens from Long Island climb into a service entrance near the walkway of the bridge.<\/p>\n
GoPro footage from one of the teens showed the precarious shaft that 16-year-old Frankie plunged down on Feb. 17. Obtained by the NY Post<\/p>\n
\u201cBro, my friggin\u2019 heart,\u201d one of the teens can be heard saying in the video as they duck into a column\u2019s service shaft.<\/p>\n
\u201cYo someone go first! Goooo! N\u2014a, go first,\u201d another boy said as the three were entering the dark steel column.<\/p>\n
The victim\u2019s nearly fatal fall occurred off camera but video recorded by his accomplices showed the heart stopping aftermath.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy leg! My leg! My leg!\u201d the boy, later identified in online petitions and fundraisers by the name Frankie, can be heard moaning repeatedly and loudly in the dark, the footage showed.<\/p>\n
Despite the piercing pleas, Frankie\u2019s supposed friends appeared to only video tape the cries, did not rush to his aid, and allegedly did not call authorities, according to Frankie\u2019s family.<\/p>\n
The clip then cuts to black and resumes as one of the boys climbs out of the shaft and back onto the walking path of the bridge, where he records a voice memo on SnapChat, according to the footage.<\/p>\n
The two unidentified teens abandoned Frankie at the bottom of the 50-foot shaft and did not call for help, leaving him to presumably die. Obtained by the NY Post<\/p>\n
\u201cBro, Frankie is dead. Frankie is f\u2013king dead. Oh my God. No, no, no,\u201d one of the turncoats said.<\/p>\n
Frankie spent the next four hours stuck at the bottom of the service shaft, in below freezing temperatures authorities said.<\/p>\n
The two teens also took Frankie\u2019s phone, preventing him from calling for help himself, according to a GoFundMe organized by the victim\u2019s family.<\/p>\n
First responders were only called to the teen\u2019s rescue when an unidentified woman alerted the FDNY, according to a\u00a0petition for on Change.org.<\/p>\n
\u201cBro, Frankie is dead. Frankie is f\u2014king dead. Oh my God. No, no, no,\u201d one of the turncoats said. Obtained by the NY Post<\/p>\n
Frankie suffered a severe blood loss, developed hypothermia, and requires \u201cmultiple\u201d surgeries to fully recover, a GoFundMe for the family claimed. <\/p>\n
The footage was posted to a WhatsApp group chat for \u201curban explorers\u201d and shared with The Post.<\/p>\n
The two fair-weather friends will face charges. A 14-year-old boy was charged with reckless endangerment and criminal trespassing and and an unidentified 15-year-old boy was charged with criminal trespassing, according to the NYPD.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Video obtained by The Post reveals the harrowing escapades of the trio of teen daredevils whose TikTok stunt…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141050,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[23665,36908,57,9,56,63,65,64,22492,4730,58,1115],"class_list":{"0":"post-141049","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-falls","9":"tag-friends","10":"tag-metro","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-ny","13":"tag-nyc","14":"tag-nyc-headlines","15":"tag-nyc-news","16":"tag-queensboro-bridge","17":"tag-teens","18":"tag-us-news","19":"tag-video"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}