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Sjmarf to [Dormant] moved to !historyphotos@piefed.social@lemmy.worldEnglish • 2 years 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 to [Dormant] moved to !historyphotos@piefed.social@lemmy.worldEnglish • 2 years ago
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  • @SorteKanin@feddit.dk
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    32•2 years ago

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

    • @Deceptichum@sh.itjust.works
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      2 years ago

      It’s most likely an optical illusion.

      Ex.

      • @IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world
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        41•2 years 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/

      • @ben16w@lemmy.world
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        15•2 years ago

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

        • @Deceptichum@sh.itjust.works
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          24•2 years 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.

        • @Vandals_handle@lemmy.world
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          2•2 years ago

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

      • @SorteKanin@feddit.dk
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        5•2 years ago

        I sure hope so

    • @Splatterphace@lemm.ee
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      15•2 years ago

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

      • @SorteKanin@feddit.dk
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        20•2 years ago

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

        • @MNByChoice@midwest.social
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          16•2 years ago

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

      • @Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de
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        12•2 years ago

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

        • Kadath (she/her)
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          12•2 years ago

    • ivanafterall
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      This is just how they got to work back then.

    • PugJesusM
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      “Hey, watch this!”

    • @Vigilante@lemmy.today
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      1•2 years ago

      Because fun i mean i’d do it .

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