Friday, June 19, 2009

Some people are just plain nuts.

















From Tigerdroppings.com:
"Getting on the cat walk isn't that hard. I went once about 8 or 9 years ago. You just climb up some electrical piping on one of the pylons by river road, walk across a 2ft wide concrete beam and then climb up the ladder.

The catwalk goes all the way across, has guardrails on the side, and lets you climb a ladder down to the pylons in the middle, or if you're brave/stupid enough, climb a ladder to the top of the ironwork above the bridge."
Gaston


We one upped the f*** outa that. The ladder was locked, so we climbed up inside the 60 degree bridge structure, using the holes as grip. Once we got on top we had to get back to where the ladder brings you, so exposed out there we climbed the last span up to the top. There are two metal bars on each side that you can wedge your feet it and press your shins up against. getting back down was way, way freaky. My friend, once on top, ran the span over traffic, jumping the big holes. Crazy stuff. We climbed the electric tower that spans the river and the tallest radio tower down river road too. That last one was the craziest. Mofo was way up there." Y.A. Tittle

There is a catwalk underneath the bridge and a metal pier on one end. There is a ladder that goes up to the catwalk. Crazy idiots.

Posted by Kingfish at 1:19 PM

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

Potential Darwin Award candidates. May the dumbest a$$ prevail for victory!

June 19, 2009 at 5:55 PM
Anonymous said...

Grew up suburbs of the northeast. Mid 70s. Went to high school with a smart guy from a broken home. In a 70s suburban park setting like this he smoked some hash, climbed high voltage structure, touched the line, fell to the ground, died at 16.

At the service his divorced early mid 30s parents played Freebird and Stairway to Heaven over and over again.

Best thing you can do is teach your children different. Sometimes a kid's biggest problem is stupid parents.

No matter where you land on the matter say a prayer for Karen Irby's children.

June 19, 2009 at 6:03 PM
Anonymous said...

Thins the herd.

June 19, 2009 at 6:38 PM
Anonymous said...

Yes, some poeple are just plain crazy. I read an article yesterday about a woman who was obsessed with rabbits. She had hundreds of live ones in her house, and even had dead ones in her freezer. She was reported to the authorities, and she was told by a judge no more animals in her home, to seek professional help, and put on probation. Low and behold, the authorities went back to her house a few months later, and they again found hundreds more rabbits jumping around in her house. Most bizarre story I have read in awhile.

June 19, 2009 at 6:43 PM
Anonymous said...

@6:30 PM

Let's all agree to pray for all children with stupid parents.

June 19, 2009 at 8:26 PM
Kingfish said...

I can't even imagine climbing on top of that bridge.

June 19, 2009 at 11:01 PM
Anonymous said...

Me, either, Kingfish. I probably would not even want to walk across it. I know I would feel it moving. Climbing on top??? I could never, ever do it.

June 19, 2009 at 11:20 PM
Kingfish said...

if they are really brave they should do that stuff on the Huey.

We had a guy in my unit back in the 90's, a brand new Second Lieutenant. Decided he would parachute off the WLBT tower one night. Took two girls with him and a video camera. there are two types of chutes: High altitude (with a small chute that pulls out the larger one) and a low altitude (single chute that opens immediately and grabs as much air as possible) cute.

Guess which one he had? Well, it was night, he couldn't get the elevator to work so Einstein decided to climb the tower. Now I've jumped before and those rigs are heavy just walking around, much less climbing up a tower with gravity pulling on you. He gets up a good ways, and is getting tired, and thinks he is high enough.

So he jumps, pulls chord. Small chute comes out....... and he never gets the velocity needed for it to pull the larger chute out. They say there is a second before he hits when he realizes what happened and is screaming his head off. He bounced over ten feet in the air, left a depression in ground about a foot deep. Its spread eagle (I've laid down in it). All on video supposedly. Needless to say, the girls were in shock. I knew the guy and my thought was when I heard about it "friggin idiot".

June 20, 2009 at 11:32 AM
stilettoGOP said...

Eww, that's just disgusting.

Notice its always men doing this stupid stuff. (old canton rd excluded) But really, what's up with guys doing this "watch me" crap. Never understood it.

June 20, 2009 at 12:20 PM

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