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Sjmarf@sh.itjust.works to HistoryPorn@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

A NYC police officer hanging over Times Square, 1920

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A NYC police officer hanging over Times Square, 1920

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Sjmarf@sh.itjust.works to HistoryPorn@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago
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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?

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      It’s most likely an optical illusion.

      Ex.

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        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/

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        The first image is some Instagram photos and the second image is a different person bouldering

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          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.

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          The coastline, buildings and boulder appear to be the same, the images are just reversed.

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        I sure hope so

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      It was 1920, they didn’t give a shit about danger back then. Those fools ate lead and huffed asbestos 😂

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        I mean they only did that cause they didn’t know how dangerous it was

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          Pretty sure they understood falling off buildings. A lot of construction workers died falling off buildings.

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        It makes more sense if you say it in a scruffy detective voice

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      This is just how they got to work back then.

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      “Hey, watch this!”

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      Because fun i mean i’d do it .

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