It was on Sunday arrested a man from Texas who drove his 78 year old father over the cliff in the North-West of Austin. He is charged with causing grievous bodily harm of the third degree, reports Fox News.
The father, 49-year-old Gerald Makkans told police that his son said he wanted to show him a rattlesnake allegedly seen on the cliff. The man got into the car Makkans, and they drove off to a distance of about one kilometer from his house, and then arrived at the scene, Makkans lured their father to the edge of the cliff, where it is suspected a snake.
When the father approached to the edge in search of the rattlesnake, Makkans pushed him off a cliff edge, with the result that the elderly man fell in the thickets and bushes.
After the incident, the man calculated that he was falling from the cliff at a height of approximately 12 meters. The victim also told police that his son laughed when he fell. The man was taken to the hospital with painful and deep wounds on his forehead and back, as well as numerous abrasions all over the body.
The mccants was arrested and taken to jail Travis County. His bail is $ 20,000.
