Firefighters had to rescue this fellow who got stuck on a telephone wire 19 floors above the ground. He found himself in this predicament because he didn't want to pay his hotel bill and decided to climb out the window and traverse along a phone wire to another building, thus avoiding the pesky clerk at the counter on the ground floor. About halfway across, he gave up and waited for someone to save him.
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10:47 am Mon
Oct 2, 2017
Watch this fellow try to skip out of his hotel by exiting on a telephone wire
Idiot at gas station won't put out cigarette, so attendant uses fire extinguisher
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