03.07.2011

Step ladder Death Wish

We are not sure where this is or when it occurred, it looks like the USA from the buildings and the ladder.

The scenario is global however – a homeowner needs to reach some work at height and even the most safety diligent among us tends to make do at home.

First where do you go on a Saturday or Sunday to rent a piece of access equipment. Secondly there is the cost and even more important there is the time it will take when the job will only take a minute or two.
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Amazingly crazy somewhere in the USA

In this scenario the cost is often the least important - it is the effort and time it takes. However in spite of that very few of us would go to the extreme that the man in our photo has gone to.

He has stacked the table on top of the two benches that go with it, added a couple of decorative concrete blocks and then perched his step ladder on top of it all and finally with a big stretch he can reach whatever it is he is after.

Whether he survived to do it all again we don’t know, one thing is for certain the chances of falling are exceptionally high and even from this height the fall could be fatal or almost worse he could end up a paraplegic.