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captainsblogI used to work in the Liberty Building, so named for the miniatures of the statue atop each of its two wings. This dude decided to go for a walk on top of it last night:
(The fishwrap has better video of it, but schmucks won't give an embed code:P)
While this was unfolding downtown, I was getting my hair cut. The customer in the next chair mentioned the stunt- more particularly, that her son works in the connected high-rise next door, on the top floor, and that they were all staying after work last night to watch the dude and drink heavily.
Fortunately, it looks like the trapeze artist didn't join them before the walk began.
I will always associate such an effort with the Twin Towers; I was fourteen when Philippe Petit (what is it with French guys wanting to do this?) pulled the same act in the considerably higher altitudes of Lower Manhattan. I took my first tour of the WTC a few years after that with some high school friends, and when we went to the top of the tower with the outdoor observation deck, we saw where he'd autographed a huge AC compressor or somesuch on the edge of the building.
If we rebuild them, he says, he will come back. Maybe then he'll even take the elevator down, walk to the mosque, and thank God for not blowing him off the rope.
(The fishwrap has better video of it, but schmucks won't give an embed code:P)
While this was unfolding downtown, I was getting my hair cut. The customer in the next chair mentioned the stunt- more particularly, that her son works in the connected high-rise next door, on the top floor, and that they were all staying after work last night to watch the dude and drink heavily.
Fortunately, it looks like the trapeze artist didn't join them before the walk began.
I will always associate such an effort with the Twin Towers; I was fourteen when Philippe Petit (what is it with French guys wanting to do this?) pulled the same act in the considerably higher altitudes of Lower Manhattan. I took my first tour of the WTC a few years after that with some high school friends, and when we went to the top of the tower with the outdoor observation deck, we saw where he'd autographed a huge AC compressor or somesuch on the edge of the building.
If we rebuild them, he says, he will come back. Maybe then he'll even take the elevator down, walk to the mosque, and thank God for not blowing him off the rope.
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Date: 2010-09-24 01:34 pm (UTC)