And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Sunday, October 15, 2017
In Brazil, there's an apartment building with a 40 storey spiral staircase attached to the outside meant as a fire escape (xpost r/evilbuildings)
I think I'd rather leap from the building than take the staircase, likely made of pot metal given that it's Brazil, it would buckle when I was half way down.
That was my first thought, but it's probably a liability issue. Easy to get hit by someone sliding down from above just as you're entering it. Plus I can see kids (and many grown-ups!) sliding down it on a regular basis just for fun:-).
There was a hideous skyscraper fire in Brazil 30 plus years ago. People remember.
ReplyDeleteI think I'd rather leap from the building than take the staircase, likely made of pot metal given that it's Brazil, it would buckle when I was half way down.
ReplyDeleteEver flown on an Embraer?
DeleteWhy didn't they just make it a giant slide? For a hasty exit, gravity is your friend. Plus, it keeps the riffraff from using an exit as an entrance.
ReplyDeleteThat was my first thought, but it's probably a liability issue. Easy to get hit by someone sliding down from above just as you're entering it. Plus I can see kids (and many grown-ups!) sliding down it on a regular basis just for fun:-).
DeleteIf I lived near the top of that building- I'd have a parachute.
ReplyDeleteSeriously.