Also note from the link that the test isn't even zero tolerance -- you just have to blow less than a .05.
Not sure what to say. Not understanding people isn't useful?
you wouldn't get me up that thing sober. More seriously, if the guy had a bad enough hangover, he could still be over the limit the next morning.
You could easily be still over at 9.30 after a heavy night - there have certainly been mornings when I've thought it's best not to drive anywhere!
My FIL climbed the Bridge a few years ago. I'd love to do it. Did you get the T-shirt?
Yeah, I'm sure there have been mornings I've been over the limit, but I wouldn't have thought "Hey, I'm going to go out and climb the SHB!" in that condition. I was actually quite impressed that he made it down there and had his shit so together that nobody figured out he was over the limit until the test.
I didn't get the t-shirt but I'm not exactly a t-shirt person. I usually collect magnets, and did get one of those.
Breathalyzers are quite unreliable. I believe you can blow up to a .05 just by eating certain types of bread shortly before.
Australia! Australia! Australia! We love you Australia!
Ha. Now you're getting the bloody Bruce jokes.
So you went on top of the bridge? In the air? Without panicking?
now that I'm sober I can climb the SHB!
It sucks that they don't let you bring your own camera.
This guy made a project of climbing all the bridges in NYC and took some pretty pictures. A college friend of mine liked surreptitiosly to climb the GWB at night -- I suspect this is much more difficult to get away with in 2006 than it was in the 90's though; he did it on a pretty regular basis ad never had any trouble with Johnny Law. Wish I woulda done it back then, oh well.
More bridge pictures by Dave Frieder.
So, bridge-climbing...that happens, huh? I had no idea. Do you need any specialized equipment?
Not really. Good shoes. But my friend had rock-climbing shoes and he did not wear those to do the GWB. It's not really that hard (bear in mind that this is second-hand info) -- you walk up the cable holding onto the railing. The main diffiiculty is climbing around the gate at the bottom of the cable.
Off-topic: I notice that when the Fuck You, Clown comment thread got archived, all the carriage returns were stripped, making most of the poems prose. Any quick script remedy for that?
Seems to happen to a lot of the archived threads.
All of them, in fact, which someone
prematurely ended a line with a carriage return and not a
<bt /> tag.
An interesting side-effect of the quick script fix mentioned in 17/18 is to cause posts in which the author used <br> tags to be double-spaced.
I did the bridge climb a few weeks ago. What a blast.
They are serious about safety. The breathalyzer, a metal detector to make sure you aren't sneaking things to drop or cut, overalls with no pockets, and always clipped in. They even take the photos--and then sell them to you.
It's hard to avoid seeing the bridge from the quay area and it seemed that every time I looked I could make out little groups of climbers making their way up or down the structure. They must be raking it in.
Oh, I think that picture of the Opera House might be from the public walkway to Milsons Point. The angle is a bit lower than my two souvenir shots.
Archived comments are being regenerated from the archived-comment database in what should be a more correct fashion. This is reminding me that I should simplify and improve the script interface, but oh well.
An interesting side-effect of the quick script fix mentioned in 17/18 is to cause posts in which the author used
tags to be double-spaced.
So much for "more correct".
Actually, it should only do that in cases in which the author used both a <br> and, presumably for his own ease of reading, a carriage return.
Actually, it should only do that in cases in which the author used both a <br> and, presumably for his own ease of reading, a carriage return. If this supposition is indeed right, then the most current version should be the most correctest as well!
Indeed -- Ben has mad skillz.
