Teen impaled trying to climb over iron gate

A Viennese teenager was seriously injured when he got stuck on a driveway gate as he tried to climb over it on Saturday night.Alexander P., 18, was on his was home from a party in the city’s Döbling district when he attempted to enter the private property by climbing over the gate for unclear reasons. Both of his thighs were impaled by the gate’s decorative iron spears, police said today (Mon).The drunken party-goer was rescued by fire-fighters after a pedestrian heard his agonising screams. He is recovering in the Viennese AKH hospital.Only last month, firemen had to use bolt cutters to free a 12-year-old boy stuck in a metal basketball hoop on a playground in Vienna-Leopoldstadt.