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"Dan Boger" <dan@giccs.georgetown.edu> wrote:
> In lugnet.publish, Kevin Loch writes:
> > In lugnet.publish, Dan Boger writes:
> > >
> > > yup, there's about 15 more mpgs and lots of more pics.... The pics
> > > are already up on my page (http://www.giccs.georgetown.edu/~dan/lego)
> > > and I'll fix my page generation script today to deal with mpgs as
> > > well, so they'll be up there too.
> > >
> > > Dan
> >
> > I can't believe you were recording this:
> >
> > http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/zigdon/Wamalug/GATS/cranecrash.mpg
> >
> > Cool!
> >
> > I should explain... The show was almost over and I was experimenting
> > with the lifting limits of the crane. The flatbed trailer (that the
> > beams were delivered to the construction site on) was just a little too
> > heavy to lift. I grabbed a roll of duct tape to use as additional
> > counterweight. That worked and as you can see I was able to lift the
> > flatbed on top of the building. Unfortunately, I diddn't think about what
> > would happen when the crane no longer had the load of the flatbed.
> > The instant the flatbed rested on the building the crane fell backwards and
> > made a most impressive disaster that was unfortunately not caught on tape.
>
> actually it was Chris Tracy who was filming it, and the reason he didn't get
> the end of the crash was that he was running away to avoid being hurt (or
> damaging the camera!) :)
...Chicken!! You have to make sacrifices for high art (in particular,
high art falling to low places and making big messes! :-)
...you can go back to ignoring me now...
wubwub
stephen f roberts
wildlink.com
lugnet #160
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