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Video off 1,500 feet to change a lightbulb atop a South Dakota TV tower
UK Daily Mail ^
| 01/04/2015
| Staff
Posted on 01/05/2015 4:51:15 AM PST by DFG
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Title changed from: The vertigo-inducing moment a daredevil climbs 1,500 feet to change a lightbulb atop a TV tower... and pauses for a SELFIE at the peak
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posted on
01/05/2015 4:51:16 AM PST
by
DFG
To: DFG
I wonder what the wind was that day. It howls 40 mph around here routinely.
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posted on
01/05/2015 4:58:01 AM PST
by
defconw
(If not now, WHEN?)
To: DFG
Sounds like they ought to spring for an LED so they don’t have to do this for another 10 years.
To: DFG
That video made me get the willies and squeal like a little girl. Pretty cool.
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posted on
01/05/2015 5:00:17 AM PST
by
Manic_Episode
(GOP = The Whig Party)
To: DFG
He didn’t have to test every bulb to find the burned out one, did he? You know, like Christmas tree lights in days of yore.
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posted on
01/05/2015 5:00:44 AM PST
by
Ken H
(What happens on the internet, stays on the internet.)
To: DFG
As an (ex) rock climber, I’d like to point out this doesn’t require a daredevil. With careful attention to technique, there’s very little risk. Lots of perceived risk, but that’s another issue entirely.
To: defconw
East or West River? You could narrow it down more but I have to respect your privacy.
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posted on
01/05/2015 5:02:04 AM PST
by
wita
To: DFG
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posted on
01/05/2015 5:02:34 AM PST
by
Maceman
To: DFG
Tower time is triple time.
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posted on
01/05/2015 5:06:58 AM PST
by
Vermont Lt
(Ebola: Death is a lagging indicator.)
To: DFG
—spending summers in Deadwood, I have always been tempted to climb one of the many towers on Terry Peak—don’t because it is apparently a federal crime to trespass on one-—
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posted on
01/05/2015 5:11:19 AM PST
by
rellimpank
(--don't believe anything the media or government says about firearms or explosives--)
To: DFG
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posted on
01/05/2015 5:12:29 AM PST
by
newfreep
("Evil succeeds when good men do nothting" - Edmund Burke)
To: DFG
Ain’t no way I would do that. No way.
To: DFG
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posted on
01/05/2015 5:15:31 AM PST
by
cripplecreek
(You can't half ass conservatism.)
To: wita
West, Southern Black Hills.
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posted on
01/05/2015 5:15:44 AM PST
by
defconw
(If not now, WHEN?)
To: DFG
I can remember being hoisted 300+ feet in a crane to inspect a flare tip. My lasting memory was wanting to get back to ground.
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posted on
01/05/2015 5:16:09 AM PST
by
catfish1957
(Everything I needed to know about Islam was written on 11 Sep 2001)
To: DFG
I’d have to be stoned cold drunk to do that. Then I would be incapable of doing that. Catch-22.
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posted on
01/05/2015 5:16:55 AM PST
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
To: DFG
Being 1500 agl in a plane no big deal. On top of a tower; mortal fear. I don’t get it myself....
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posted on
01/05/2015 5:18:15 AM PST
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
To: Maceman
Makes my knees go gibbety-gibbety-gibbety.But pucker time!!!
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posted on
01/05/2015 5:18:18 AM PST
by
WVKayaker
(Impeachment is the Constitution's answer for a derelict, incompetent president! -Sarah Palin 7/26/14)
To: catfish1957
I don’t get on anything higher than a barstool.
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posted on
01/05/2015 5:18:32 AM PST
by
Lurkina.n.Learnin
(It's a shame nobama truly doesn't care about any of this. Our country, our future, he doesn't care)
To: Sherman Logan
Working in construction the PPE they have now makes the risks quite low. I always am concerned more about the issues of rescue than in the task itself.
I would have to have a guy up there get a mild stroke and then have to go get him down.
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posted on
01/05/2015 5:19:12 AM PST
by
KC Burke
(I know my screen name says KC but I'm in AZ now!)
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