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.
Ok, Ok, that was a great joke, can you get me down now....
ReplyDeleteHarold Lloyd? He did all of his own stunts.
ReplyDeleteFrom Volume 27 of "The Annals of Bad Ideas."
ReplyDeleteI got a nosebleed just looking at that picture!
ReplyDeleteThere`s only 3 bolts & a rope holding that steel up!
ReplyDeleteThe rope is holding what looks to be a piece of canvas.
DeleteSo we're down to 3 bolts !!!
Wearing the uniform of Junior Birdman.
ReplyDeleteGives me the creeps to look at because I hate heights and if I have to go up, it takes me time to get used to being up there. A lot of time.
ReplyDeleteAnyone stupid enough to do this would be absolutely no loss to humanity if it went awry.
ReplyDeleteThe sad part is that it probably didn't.
Nope. Nope. Nopity Nope.
ReplyDeleteI was too hard to raise.