Niagara 1,500 meter tight rope challenge

x0x · Joined: 10 Jul 2008 Posts: 14641 Location: Ontario, Canada

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At this thing right now, amazing. 35 min to go time!
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11sanchez11 · Joined: 08 Feb 2010 Posts: 6899 Location: Tucson, AZ

Wait you are there? Crazy they are talking to him while he's doing it.
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GBPackers79 · Joined: 20 Jan 2007 Posts: 19416 Location: New Jersey

I'm impressed that he made it across and was so calm about it.

But let's be serious, there was no risk here. The safety harness removed that factor, yet ABC was hyping it up like he could die.

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yankee0724 · Joined: 12 Jan 2010 Posts: 15374 Location: Anims Tito

I was going to watch it until he said they were making wear a safety harness. Takes all of the suspense out of it.
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redsoxsuck05 · Joined: 16 Jan 2008 Posts: 7650 Location: LI

No network publicizing this event would take on the liability of possible death
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x0x · Joined: 10 Jul 2008 Posts: 14641 Location: Ontario, Canada

If you watched it, he said specifically in the end about the harness " I feel like a jackass wearing it ".

So....it's about liability. It was illegal for 125 years and I'm thinking one of the big reasons they allowed him to do it was because of the harness.

I still think if he fell, that makes him look a bit foolish so it's not like he'd get a free pass.
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milanb · Joined: 04 Jan 2008 Posts: 5622 Location: Ottawa, Ontario

It was the ABC TV Network that insisted on the safety harness. No harness, no TV money.

To put all this in perspective, French tight rope walker Charles Blondin first performed the feat in 1859, and in later attempts he did it blind-folded and at another time carried his manager piggy-back. He was also known to do aerial somersaults or to stop and cook an omelette along the way.

I remember first learning about Blondin in the 70's, when the CBC had a documentary series on long-forgotten bits of Canadian history and he was the subject of one of the episodes.
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