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Man scales S.F. tower to publicize his message
San Francisco Chronicle ^
| Monday, September 6, 2010
| Bob Egelko,Kevin Fagan
Posted on 09/06/2010 10:00:56 PM PDT by walkerk
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posted on
09/06/2010 10:01:00 PM PDT
by
walkerk
To: walkerk
We had a guy climb a skyscraper in Seattle last week as well.
To: walkerk
According to a news release left for reporters at the outset of his three-hour climb, he had scaled the World Trade Center in New York in 1983 to illustrate the difficulty of rescues from skyscrapers. Ummmmm ... I don't think so.
To: walkerk
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posted on
09/06/2010 10:16:16 PM PDT
by
magslinger
('This is a United States Marine Corps FA-18 fighter. Send 'em up, I'll wait!')
To: Mr_Moonlight
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posted on
09/06/2010 10:18:30 PM PDT
by
magslinger
('This is a United States Marine Corps FA-18 fighter. Send 'em up, I'll wait!')
To: walkerk
Being in a skyscraper is a bit like flying in an airplane. Everything is great until something goes wrong.
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posted on
09/06/2010 10:27:25 PM PDT
by
Mr Ramsbotham
(Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
To: magslinger
Why not? In 1983? Because it would have been publicized. And besides, the only person to 'scale' the World Trade Center did so 5 years earlier, in 1977 ... one George Willig:
George Willig's 1977 WTC Climb
To: Infralutheran
what building was that? I must have missed that one!
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posted on
09/06/2010 10:44:15 PM PDT
by
bobby.223
To: walkerk
to dramatize the vulnerability of skyscrapers to terrorismOh man. Snipers can fix that, if it is deemed a problem. This guy is a nut.
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posted on
09/06/2010 11:04:07 PM PDT
by
krb
(Obama is a miserable failure.)
To: walkerk
If he can get up that way, he can get down that way too.
Maybe suction cup shoes should be stocked as emergency supplies in all skyscrapers.
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posted on
09/06/2010 11:06:31 PM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
To: walkerk
Obviously law enforcement can’t let this type of thing run amok, but it is fascinating and really brave.
For example Philippe Petit walked a wire between New York’s Twin Towers back in the 70s.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe_Petit
I saw him on the sidewalk in Paris in 1970 where he strung his line and performed.
This 54 year old doing a three hour climb is pretty impressive. The flag at the top was cool, too.
To: walkerk
I get scared just looking at him up there.
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posted on
09/06/2010 11:14:34 PM PDT
by
Beowulf9
To: truth_seeker
There is a
movie about the World Trade Center wire walker.
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posted on
09/06/2010 11:19:13 PM PDT
by
Nateman
(If liberals are not screaming you are doing it wrong!)
To: Nateman
“There is a movie about the World Trade Center wire walker. “
I saw it. When he did the walk in the 70s I knew it was the guy we had seen in Paris, too.
To: Mr_Moonlight
According to this and other websites,
http://www.simplytaty.com/broadenpages/historyofwtc.htm a dozen climbers climbed the towers while they stood. Willig may have been the first, but apparently not the
only one to scale the towers.
Of course, publicizing the others would only have encouraged more. By way of making a point, most everyone knows who Sir Edmund Hillary was and what he did. Who was the second guy to climb Everest?
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posted on
09/07/2010 12:53:03 AM PDT
by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
To: Mr_Moonlight
It is a fact. I was there.
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posted on
09/07/2010 2:12:48 AM PDT
by
BullDog108
(A Smith & Wesson beats four aces)
To: Mr_Moonlight
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posted on
09/07/2010 2:15:41 AM PDT
by
BullDog108
(A Smith & Wesson beats four aces)
To: Mr_Moonlight
Why do a lot of people here start their sentences with “ummmmm”. It’s a bit strange.
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posted on
09/07/2010 2:18:41 AM PDT
by
SamAdams76
(I am 91 days away from outliving Curly Howard)
To: Smokin' Joe
No one knows if it was Hillary or Tenzing Norkay who was the first, as they made the top together. (Tenzing later claimed it was Hillary who was first) The second ascent was made by two Swiss: Adolf Reist and Hans Roudolf.
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posted on
09/07/2010 2:20:44 AM PDT
by
BullDog108
(A Smith & Wesson beats four aces)
To: BullDog108
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posted on
09/07/2010 2:32:17 AM PDT
by
abb
("What ISN'T in the news is often more important than what IS." Ed Biersmith, 1942 -)
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