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A NYC police officer hanging over Times Square, 1920
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... Why... How... I... What. I need some background. Why in the world would you put yourself in that kind of danger?
It’s most likely an optical illusion.
Ex.
This is exactly how entertainers like Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, and Harold Lloyd did many of their stunts.
https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/harold-lloyd-about-harold-lloyd/647/
The first image is some Instagram photos and the second image is a different person bouldering
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/photograph-cliff-hanger-isnt-quite-seems/
There's no set of the hanging effect and the long distance together, but it's a pretty common rock that people take these forced perspective photos on.
The coastline, buildings and boulder appear to be the same, the images are just reversed.
I sure hope so
It was 1920, they didn't give a shit about danger back then. Those fools ate lead and huffed asbestos 😂
I mean they only did that cause they didn't know how dangerous it was
Pretty sure they understood falling off buildings. A lot of construction workers died falling off buildings.
It makes more sense if you say it in a scruffy detective voice
This is just how they got to work back then.
"Hey, watch this!"
Because fun i mean i'd do it .