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12-03-2008, 11:36 AM
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dar512 is now Pete Zicato
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Lunch
Supposed to be somewhere in Austria (according to one comment).
Just looking at this picture gives me shrinkage. 
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12-03-2008, 11:40 AM
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The ladies have fall arrest harnesses on. Not like the famous pictures from the 30's of Manhattan skyscraper builders.
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12-03-2008, 11:47 AM
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Your Bartender
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OK, I think I'm ready to vomit just form looking at them.
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12-03-2008, 11:52 AM
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twatfaced two legged bumhole
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This is one of those times I wish I was a man. After drinking all of that pop, I'd totally pee off the end of that girder...
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12-03-2008, 11:54 AM
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Why, you're a regular Alfred E Einstein, ain't ya?
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Quote:
 But I'd skip the "shake."
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12-03-2008, 11:58 AM
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These are fun
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12-03-2008, 11:59 AM
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Why, you're a regular Alfred E Einstein, ain't ya?
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Any stats on fatalities from falls from those days, I wonder?
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12-03-2008, 12:06 PM
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Did you say "stats" or "splats" from falls in those days?
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12-03-2008, 12:06 PM
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Why, you're a regular Alfred E Einstein, ain't ya?
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The original Flat Stanley.
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12-03-2008, 12:16 PM
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I just found the motherload of pictures. Won't post them all here. Just a teaser.
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12-03-2008, 12:22 PM
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Gone and done
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Those pics are giving me the jibblies, and I like heights
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12-03-2008, 12:57 PM
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changed his status to single
Join Date: Apr 2004
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 and why are those pics on an obviously foreign site?
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12-03-2008, 02:26 PM
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We have to go back, Kate!
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I remember my brother nearly went into steel erecting. He stood there, aged 19, in the kitchen telling mum all about his intention to go for a job in that field...apparently a 'vacancy' had come up...let's just say somebody had dropped out, or off the job.
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12-03-2008, 02:56 PM
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Why, you're a regular Alfred E Einstein, ain't ya?
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I googled trying to find some kind of info on fatalities from the old days of building skyscrapers, all I could find was a nod to the lack of safety devices. You can't tell me people weren't dropping off like The Happening.
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12-03-2008, 03:05 PM
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I Googled too, and only found one item: that when they planned the Empire State Building, they "bugeted" one death per floor, and were happy when only a "handful" of people died building it instead of the hundred or so they expected.
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