A Wallenda is set to tightrope walk across Niagara Falls in June, but in a harness?

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14. Tightrope walker Nik Wallenda may face falcon attack on Niagara Falls crossing...

http://www.thestar.com/news/article/1183199--tightrope-walker-nik-wallenda-may-face-falcon-attack-on-niagara-falls-crossing?bn=1

Could a Flying Wallenda meet a flying falcon?

There’s a “good possibility’’ a pair of nesting falcons at Niagara Falls could attack daredevil high-wire walker Nik Wallenda as he attempts a crossing over the famous waterway on June 15, say Mark and Marion Nash, spokespeople for the Canadian Peregrine Foundation.

Wallenda, a seventh-generation member of the circus and daredevil performers known as the Great Wallendas and the Flying Wallendas, will be crossing right through a major flight path used by the falcons, said Marion Nash.

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“They go 360 kilometres an hour — he could get a 2-pound missile attacking at the back of his neck,’’ said Marion Nash, who was attending the banding of four fuzzy, peregrine falcon babies who nest on a 43rd floor ledge of the downtown Sheraton Centre Hotel with their parents.

The Niagara Falls peregrines “may take huge offence — they’ll be patrolling their air space,’’ said Mark Nash, adding it’s also possible the pair may not feel threatened. “Who knows what will happen?’’

360 freaking kilometres / hour? Holy crap.

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