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World most Dangerous Job (Original Post) salmannaseem07 Aug 2018 OP
No thanks genxlib Aug 2018 #1
back in the 1980s lapfog_1 Aug 2018 #2
Mohawk, not Navajos Ptah Aug 2018 #3
ok... I didn't remember... I know I read about them. lapfog_1 Aug 2018 #4
It is dangerous... Snackshack Aug 2018 #5
Nerves of steel. nt Fla Dem Aug 2018 #6
Where is the safety line that should be around his body? mysteryowl Aug 2018 #7
Nope Nope Leith Aug 2018 #8
Nope. LuckyCharms Aug 2018 #9
If had listen to that music all day, would jump. Snellius Aug 2018 #10

genxlib

(5,548 posts)
1. No thanks
Mon Aug 6, 2018, 05:52 PM
Aug 2018

Clearly not in the US or OSHA would be having a cow. I think the opening shot is of the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpure

Reminds me of those old pictures from New York 100 years ago.

lapfog_1

(29,253 posts)
2. back in the 1980s
Mon Aug 6, 2018, 05:57 PM
Aug 2018

I was staying at the Bonaventure Hotel in downtown LA... somewhere around 70 floors up.

They were building the Crocker National Bank building next door (across a street) and they had these iron workers (I think from a tribe of Navajos that specialize in working high rise buildings). These guys were running around like this video... and I was in my hotel room watching them do this about 40 yards away... 70 stories up. And the Bonaventure had these floor to ceiling glass walls.

I took to closing the drapes completely and trying not to look at these guys.

lapfog_1

(29,253 posts)
4. ok... I didn't remember... I know I read about them.
Mon Aug 6, 2018, 06:01 PM
Aug 2018

But they scared the crap out of me... and I'm not that afraid of heights.

LuckyCharms

(17,489 posts)
9. Nope.
Tue Aug 7, 2018, 12:17 PM
Aug 2018

Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope.

While watching that, my testicles got sucked up in my body and are currently residing in my lungs.

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