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How many of you baws could perform this feat in the picture?

Posted on 6/16/17 at 3:31 pm
Posted by tiggerthetooth
Big Momma's House
Member since Oct 2010
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Posted on 6/16/17 at 3:31 pm
No harnesses...no nets below...free standing hitting a golf ball atop this skyscraper under construction...




There's no way I'd ever do that shite.


Here's the 21st century version with the inclusion of OSHA.

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Kevin Sabbagh had never seen the World Trade Center in its completion. He'd known it only as a skeleton of a building, with exposed iron and steel. And he'd known it well -- Sabbagh, a fifth-generation ironworker, helped build the World Trade Center from start to finish. (His great-grandfather and great-great-grandfather helped build the Empire State Building.)


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On September 22, 2012, Sabbagh, a 2-handicap golfer, felt compelled to replicate the famous shot of an ironworker who hit a golf ball off a beam while constructing Rockefeller Center. "I was 100 feet from the top when I posed for this photo," says Sabbagh. "I aimed down Tenth Avenue. I originally wanted to hit the ball, but the wind was howling that day so I couldn't."


This post was edited on 6/16/17 at 3:36 pm
Posted by MorbidTheClown
Baton Rouge
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Posted on 6/16/17 at 3:32 pm to
golfer or caddy?
Posted by Clyde Tipton
Planet Earth
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Posted on 6/16/17 at 3:32 pm to
Smoking is going to kill that guy one day.
Posted by tiggerthetooth
Big Momma's House
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Posted on 6/16/17 at 3:32 pm to
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golfer or caddy?


Golfer.
Posted by Displaced
Member since Dec 2011
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Posted on 6/16/17 at 3:32 pm to
I mean.... Fall protection exists for a reason.
Posted by monkeybutt
Member since Oct 2015
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Posted on 6/16/17 at 3:33 pm to
My Granpappy coulda done that. Then walk through 15 miles of driving snow back home.
Posted by Ted2010
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Posted on 6/16/17 at 3:34 pm to
Where do you think I am posting from?
Posted by President
Clark and Addison
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Posted on 6/16/17 at 3:34 pm to
That's photoshopped
Posted by tiggerthetooth
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Posted on 6/16/17 at 3:37 pm to
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That's photoshopped


I forgot photoshop was invented in the 1920s. Should have invested then.
Posted by monkeybutt
Member since Oct 2015
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Posted on 6/16/17 at 3:38 pm to
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I forgot photoshop was invented in the 1920s. Should have invested then.


I don't know if it's shopped or not, but do you honestly think people can't take old pictures and frick around with them in photoshop currently?
Posted by mouton
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Posted on 6/16/17 at 3:43 pm to
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I forgot photoshop was invented in the 1920s. Should have invested then.
Posted by Kcrad
Diamondhead
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Posted on 6/16/17 at 3:43 pm to
Great, now I need to take a crap.
Posted by tiggerthetooth
Big Momma's House
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Posted on 6/16/17 at 3:44 pm to
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I don't know if it's shopped or not, but do you honestly think people can't take old pictures and frick around with them in photoshop currently?


No, I know they can, but I also know this is an extremely well known and iconic photo that has a fairly well known back-story as well. Its definitely not photoshopped.

Smithsonian
Posted by fishfighter
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Member since Apr 2008
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Posted on 6/16/17 at 3:45 pm to
photoshop my arse. Back in those days, most iron workers on high rises were crazy arse Indians. Read your history.
Posted by tiggerthetooth
Big Momma's House
Member since Oct 2010
61043 posts
Posted on 6/16/17 at 3:46 pm to
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photoshop my arse. Back in those days, most iron workers on high rises were crazy arse Indians. Read your history.


Yeah, look at this group of "Indians" working on the Rockefeller center back in the 1930s. We all know damn well white people didn't build anything, ever.


This post was edited on 6/16/17 at 3:48 pm
Posted by Scooba
Member since Jun 2013
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Posted on 6/16/17 at 3:47 pm to



I could do it if I found the right beam... with a ledge below it.
Posted by OysterPoBoy
City of St. George
Member since Jul 2013
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Posted on 6/16/17 at 3:47 pm to
Knickers on fleek.
Posted by JetFuelTyga
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Member since Feb 2016
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Posted on 6/16/17 at 3:48 pm to
Too much left arm breakdown
Posted by lsupride87
Member since Dec 2007
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Posted on 6/16/17 at 3:49 pm to
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I originally wanted to hit the ball, but the wind was howling that day so I couldn't."
What a fricking dick. That could cause some serious damage you dumb 5th generation iron worker
Posted by MWP
Kingwood, TX via Monroe, LA
Member since Jul 2013
10391 posts
Posted on 6/16/17 at 3:50 pm to
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Too much left arm breakdown




Yes, looks like he is about to hit that poor kid.
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