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Does anyone remember Pierre's last name? In the 1970s, he walked into the arms of the police--across a tightrope stretched between the towers of the World Trade Center. He was sentenced to perform for children, for free, in city parks.
In comparison this was a pig's stunt. They should lock him up for thirty days, make him cover the cost of rescue and cleanup and take away his visa.
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Operating to endanger (the tourists) I found a power parachute site, and some of the regulations which they must obey. Also some pretty pictures of them in flight. I have seen the "daring young men in their flying machines" just above the treetops in wooded areas, where motor failure etc. could get them hurt. http://www.powerchutes.com/far103.htm
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make him cover the cost of rescue
This is a complete redd herring - just get the TV networks to cover that cost, and they will still have had loads of very cheap footage!
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The TV networks would insist on a complete re-enactment. Might be difficult to arrange. Or maybe they could do a computer simulation. And imagine a computer simulation with the Statue of Liberty shifting her torch to the other hand, and lowering the daring young man gently to ground level!
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... or dipping her torch to crisp Daedalus like a moth over a candle!
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Torch his chute I say!
Not his fault: she obviously carries a torch for him.
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If they had been contemporaneous, what would the Colossus of Rhodes have said, if the Statue of Liberty had been towed on a barge into the harbor of Rhodes?
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Maybe we should light the torch and let him try it again...see how game he is this time!
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Many such illegal stunts have taken place in the passed, for example by so-called base-jumpers. The strange thing about this stunt was that he would have been caught whether he achieved a successful landing or not (unlike our base-jumpers), and that the stunt seemed practically impossible. The observation deck on the arm of the statue is tiny!!
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