#39474
08/24/2001 8:20 PM
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I was reading "An NYU admission application" in MaxQ's Humouresque page, and came across the line: " I
enjoy urban hang gliding." It reminded me that there was an item in the news last night about a power-parachute enthusiast colliding with the Statue of Liberty, but being able to climb to safety, leaving his flying machine draped over the torch holding arm.
So let's hear some opinions, should the perpetrator get a citation, or a medal?
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#39475
08/25/2001 1:26 AM
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#39476
08/25/2001 11:10 AM
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enthusiast
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#39477
08/25/2001 1:30 PM
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Sombody is going to have to pay for the cost of getting what's left of the machine down off the torch.That could run into money, as the monkey said when he pissed into the cash register.
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#39478
08/25/2001 3:41 PM
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#39479
08/25/2001 3:44 PM
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#39480
08/25/2001 4:37 PM
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How about a little game of thinking up the charges that could be brought against him.
How about "Defacing a public monument" ?
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#39481
08/25/2001 4:44 PM
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"Flying in the face of nurture" 
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#39482
08/25/2001 4:52 PM
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TEd
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#39483
08/25/2001 5:27 PM
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Irreverence of the champion of liberty.
[apologies to Mark Twain]
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#39484
08/25/2001 5:59 PM
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Pooh-Bah
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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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#39485
08/25/2001 6:18 PM
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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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#39486
08/25/2001 7:53 PM
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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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#39487
08/25/2001 8:08 PM
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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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#39488
08/25/2001 8:12 PM
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... or dipping her torch to crisp Daedalus like a moth over a candle!
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#39490
08/25/2001 9:25 PM
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Torch his chute I say!
Not his fault: she obviously carries a torch for him.
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#39491
08/25/2001 10:10 PM
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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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#39492
08/26/2001 2:28 AM
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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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#39493
08/27/2001 8:42 AM
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old hand
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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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#39494
08/27/2001 12:36 PM
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As was the edifice upon which he caught himself.
Hoist on his own poignard.
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#39495
08/27/2001 3:57 PM
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and so fated to complete the delightful irony indeed®, of being deprived of his equal liberty by his stunt on old Liberté's fraternal bonnet!
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#39496
08/27/2001 4:22 PM
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Not to mention his Mastercard and AMEX.
Do you know me?
300 million Catholics do.
The American Express card.
Don't leave Rome without it.
K-A-R-L W-O-Y-T-I-L-A
TEd
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#39497
08/27/2001 4:45 PM
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what would the Colossus of Rhodes have said, if the Statue of Liberty had been towed on a barge into the harbor of Rhodes?
Don't know, but I can imagine Liberty with a Mae West accent:
"Is that a doric column, big boy, or are you just pleased to see me?"
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#39498
08/27/2001 5:16 PM
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"Is that a doric column, big boy, or are you just pleased to see me?"
"Non, m'amie, it is Ionian, please note the concentric spirals at the top!"
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#39499
08/27/2001 11:54 PM
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When I was learning to shoot pool, my teacher, Rodney, told me that when faced with no easy shot, imagine the most elaborate shot possible. If you make it, everyone will be in awe. If you miss it, well, it was a tough shot anyway. So the French guy missed it. It was a tough shot anyway.
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