A man and his 10-year-old daughter were on an evening bike ride when he suggested they jump off the Lantana Bridge and into the Intracoastal Waterway.
The nervous little girl agreed and at 7:40 p.m. Monday, Troy Stewart, 31, grabbed his daughter's hand, counted to three and jumped nearly 20 feet into the water Megan Stewart was not hurt, but her father broke his left leg when he hit the bottom.
"He thought he could break her fear of heights by doing that. Instead he broke his leg," said Lantana Police Capt. Andy Rundle. "I wouldn't consider this an appropriate method of trying to break your kid of a phobia. Considering he got hurt, she could've just as easily got hurt."
They had to swim about 50 feet to shore, and Megan ran two blocks home to get her mother, Mandy Potter.
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