24.06.2012

Believe it or not!

Spotted in Niagara Falls, Canada recently a window cleaner working from a suspended platform, who has his own way of fixing a jammed line.
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Up he goes

In the words of our reader – “whilst walking down the street the other day, we came across this fella whose cradle winch seem to have packed up!”

“Without thinking he just scrambled up the rope and sorted the problem out, then carried on working.”
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Halfway up

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Almost there.. apparently he fixed the problem and returned to the platform

“What was he thinking of!”

Since putting this story up we have discovered that the window cleaner in question is actually a real dummy on the side of the Ripley's Believe It or Not! museum in Clifton Hill, Niagara Falls and in the rush up to Vertikal Days we fell for it !

Robert Ripley, the franchise founder who has museums worldwide, was an exceptionally flamboyant character who travelled the world collecting artefacts and writing stories about his weird and unusual findings. His museum’s are definitely for the fans of the bizarre and unbelievable with the museum in Niagara Falls designed to look like the fallen Empire State building with King Kong standing on top of it!

But thats still not to say we are overly impressed with the platform he is using, no toe-boards and a floor that looks ready to give - its no wonder why he is climbing out of that death trap!
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Ripley's Believe It or Not! Museum in Niagara Falls