Monday, July 9, 2007

Dangle Dangle.

After a long and bleak wild art hunt on June 28, this came over the scanner as a "high angle rescue." I drove around Finley trying to find it for quite a while, sure that I had missed it, but found the house just as they were starting to get him down. The best part was seeing a TV news van drive right by this house. He didn't arrive until a couple minutes after they had gotten the guy down.

We already published this with all his info, but I'll spare the poor guy more Google hits of his name and his business. Long story short, he was was setting up some outdoor lighting for his friend, who lets him advertise at his meat shop. He had never set up lights that high before and was determined to learn it himself. One of his knots got stuck and he didn't want to try and free himself that high up, so they called the fire department. The chief, who used to perform mountain rescue, gave the embarrassed dangler some pointers for next time.

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