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My god, exactly how many floors off the ground is this?
Watch that last step…
It’s a doozy.
no it’s okay… there’s someone hanging onto his waist.
Second floor, third at the most. Note the tree, and power/phone lines are never strung very high up. Risky, but not suicidally so. Tying together several ladders to get enough height would probably be more dangerous.
Safety First – But not in Mexico (or wherever this is)
It looks like one of those three-locking-joints folding ladders, with just one of the four sections out the window. What I want to know is how many guys are sitting on the three sections we can’t see to keep the whole thing from going out. Hopefully several.
Jon, you jump off a 3 story building – its painful.
what the hell is he fixing anyway?
“#$%&*@ Birds keep building nests in the friggin airconditioner!”
This is a really bad design. From judging where this is at is probably in Central or South America.
“I swear, next time I call tech support I’m going to have the model number handy”
Guy inside to the guy on the ladder, “About that 100 bucks you owe me.”
or
Guy on the ladder to the guy inside, “Dudeman, this is the last time. If you are so afraid of heights, you have got to find a different place to hide your stash. And be careful, you know I’m very ticklish.”
dond1,
Now that’s FUNNY!!
“There, I…AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASPLAT
Never take anyone up on a free air conditioner.
The suicide from the 20th floor goes AAAAAAAH Thump!
The suicide from the 2nd goes Thump! AAAAAAAH.
That’s one way to get free cable…
LOOOOOOOOL! Maybe somewhere in the balcan area?
1. Man they need to move the time clock inside!
2. How’s the picture now?
3. I can’t get the the CD out, reboot!
Is that Mario? Since when did he branch out into air conditioners?
Note that the window they are leaning out of is different from the rest of the windows (it opens, the rest don’t). This isn’t just a whim – this particular fix has happened before…
He’s just letting the dog out of the kennel as the buildings have a No Pets policy.
Which dumb man actually installed and how the air conditioning system there
Most of the comments seem to be over-reactions from young people. Fact is, millions of people around the globe have AC setups very similar to what’s depicted. That photo is not unusual at all. And you don’t see thousands of installers/repairmen dying every year. Not even a handful. They’re basically fine.
Yes, a safety-minded bureaucrat would rightfully point out several improvements to the process which would be of great benefit to work safety. But the notion that this is “extremely dangerous” is a bit overstated because the people commenting here seem to have little knowledge of the world outside their home town and thus lack some perspective.
It’s too bad the maintenance staff isn’t run better, but let’s not all act like people die from this.
Hey thrill seekers:it is much more thrilling to stay inside the apartment an pee in the wall outlet!
Pirating cable is hard.
Yeah, ReaderX is right. I spent a month in Ecuador and you see things like this all the time. It’s scary for us First Worlders–and it’s okay to say that, the Ecuadorians themselves (my father included) describe their country as ‘Third World’–but for those of us who haven’t been born in places with strict regulations, this is commonplace.
I’m sure their wives’/sisters’/daughters’/mothers’ hearts are in their mouths, though…a cracked skull, whether you drop from the second floor or the second step, is not a joke.
I agree with you both. I’ve seen this regularly in Central America. The workers don’t want to die, and have a lot of helpers.
This is a potentially scary situation, but I see no kludge.
gothca tryin to steal my ac
@ReaderX
We’re all so humbled by your zinging insight into our pathetic lives. BORING! Why bother comenting at all?
makes me wonder who’s holding the ladder XD
I’m going to guess they’re hooking up a power line to steal power.
Holy poop. Wow.
This is either awesome teamwork, or the worlds most poorly-timed falcon punch.
when no-holds-bar wrestling goes WAY too far