MacArthur Bridge

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Did you have to get around that chainlink gate on the overpass to get out there, or do they not keep it locked any more?
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Yeah, we had to step over some razor wire between the fence and the bridge cables on the side, but it wasn't very difficult. I guess there was one other fence to get through at the beginning but that wasn't hard to get around either.
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PANIC! on the Titanic wrote:Image
Knowing you, you went further out than this didn't you?

Dark of night be damned.
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We both we out further actually. Although I stopped short of the trusses because it was getting ridiculous with the height and sharp rusty metal and single I-beam balancing acts and all. I said fuck that noise and we turned back. I figured the whole bridge was like that.
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PANIC! on the Titanic wrote: Although I stopped short of the trusses because it was getting ridiculous with the height and sharp rusty metal and single I-beam balancing acts and all. I said fuck that noise and we turned back.
This from the man who has taken up climbing things that shan't be named in the general public?!? I can't believe it!
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I blame mindwaave
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We both did want to get out to the big arch trusses, but there was just a single beam continuing out there and it would have really, really sucked. Why don't you head out there Nic? :P
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Pfft, everyone knows why I wouldn't, cause I'm a big scaredy cat when it comes to any kind of heights/climbing. But we're talking about "Mr. Balls of Steel" himself, Panic, here.
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Nicotti wrote: But we're talking about "Mr. Balls of Steel" himself, Panic, here.
I may have balls but I also have a brain. And like WR, impulse control is not my strong point. However, I wasn't going to leave mindwaave behind and wander off on a half-mile excursion on shitty I beams. My brain actually kicked in and said 'don't be a moron.' That hasn't happened much before.
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I'd think your brain would say, "At least this time I have someone who knows where I am and can get help if I get stuck, as opposed to the shit I climb by myself."

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