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A NYC police officer hanging over Times Square, 1920 (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 32 points 7 months ago (5 children)

... Why... How... I... What. I need some background. Why in the world would you put yourself in that kind of danger?

[–] [email protected] 49 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

It’s most likely an optical illusion.

Ex.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 7 months ago

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/

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 24 points 7 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

I sure hope so

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

This is just how they got to work back then.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

"Hey, watch this!"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Because fun i mean i'd do it .