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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsI get dizzy just looking, but I can't stop watching videos like this of workers on skyscrapers:
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No safety devices, of course!
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I get dizzy just looking, but I can't stop watching videos like this of workers on skyscrapers: (Original Post)
tblue37
Jan 2022
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tblue37
(65,328 posts)1. Interesting numbers on this building (2nd tweet):
Link to tweet
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tblue37
(65,328 posts)2. In other parts of the world, workers still climb around as though they aren't a gazillion feet up:
mitch96
(13,892 posts)3. Crap this makes my whole abdominal area queezy... No thanks...
I really dislike looking over a precipice...... I feel like I'll get sucked over the edge.. weird, eh?
But I love to fly airplanes and sailplanes... go figure..
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onethatcares
(16,166 posts)4. to paraphrase Paul Simon
They got magnets on the soles of their shoes........
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)5. I feel like I am going to throw up just looking at this.
I could not imagine doing a job like that in a million years.
Emile
(22,669 posts)6. How many died making that building?
tblue37
(65,328 posts)7. None. See post #1 above.
Emile
(22,669 posts)8. Wow, crazy Daredevil's too!
tblue37
(65,328 posts)9. Of course there were deaths on other buildings.
lillypaddle
(9,580 posts)10. I can't even watch this.
tblue37
(65,328 posts)11. This one is scary, too:
lillypaddle
(9,580 posts)12. Yes, but at least there is a railing
but just being way up in the air on a little beam ...