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Window Washers Trapped As Scaffolding Hangs From WTC 1 - Live Feed

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A day of contrasts: on one hand, the world just managed to land a human-created vessel on a comet. On the other hand, two window washers are hanging helplessly from the 68th Floor of WTC1.

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Wed, 11/12/2014 - 14:56 | 5441068 Hippocratic Oaf
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"We had to trap some washer folk"

Wed, 11/12/2014 - 14:58 | 5441081 TruthInSunshine
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"Pull it."

-- Larry Silverstein (with 80 insurance contracts on the building)

Wed, 11/12/2014 - 15:01 | 5441092 OW My Balls
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Jump you fuckers [but take some bankers with you]. Take one FOR THE TEAM bitchez!

Wed, 11/12/2014 - 15:07 | 5441115 hedgeless_horseman
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Clearly, we need more legislation!

Wed, 11/12/2014 - 15:08 | 5441125 General Decline
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Has anyone been watching out for any Israelis dancing around nearby?

Wed, 11/12/2014 - 15:15 | 5441157 kaiserhoff
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Looks like my day wasn't that bad, after all.

Wed, 11/12/2014 - 15:17 | 5441170 Manthong
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They just built the damn thing.

How could the windows be dirty already?

But moar importantly, how come a billion dollar, 21st Century, poor substitute for an icon does not have a mechanized window cleaning system?

Wed, 11/12/2014 - 15:19 | 5441175 kaiserhoff
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Because Obama?

Wed, 11/12/2014 - 15:22 | 5441197 12ToothAssassin
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What a fantastic distraction! I want to see the POTUS travel log to see if Barry was anywhere near the building shortly before this happened...

Wed, 11/12/2014 - 15:41 | 5441269 zerozulu
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Whole nation is hanging by a thread. Is there anyone cares?

Wed, 11/12/2014 - 16:20 | 5441434 pods
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"And when the cable snapped on the window washers' scaffold, that is what caused the entire building to collapse.  Similar to a pancake collapse, but this one is called the spaghetti collapse."

L. Silverstein

Wed, 11/12/2014 - 18:02 | 5441797 svayambhu108
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How the hack do they clean the windows with that building design. They balance the scaffold?

Can't clean it, bring it down!

Wed, 11/12/2014 - 19:35 | 5442140 BringOnTheAsteroid
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If this is supposed to be a false flag then the oligarchs are really letting their game slip.

Wed, 11/12/2014 - 16:18 | 5441425 DetectiveStern
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If they couldn't figure out how to make the window washing platform work for more than a month what else have they fucked up?

Wed, 11/12/2014 - 15:22 | 5441196 Dr. Richard Head
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Tell me about it.  I got caught napping at my desk, woke up to find this, and then knew all was well - for me at least.

Wed, 11/12/2014 - 15:07 | 5441129 Arthor Bearing
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The comet rocket is made in Germany. This WTC situation looks like the work of A(merican)DHD engineering.

Wed, 11/12/2014 - 15:20 | 5441181 ejmoosa
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I bet we had an automated enginneering solution as well.  

But the Unions made sure that there would always be manned window washers that cleeaned the windows forever more.

 

Wed, 11/12/2014 - 17:50 | 5441730 kchrisc
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If and when they get down, the NYC gun and badge thugs will shoot at them and hit passersbys, taze them, put them in a choke hold, pummel them, arrest them, sodomize them with a plunger stick, then ticket them for "loitering" and resisting arrest.

An American, not US subject.

 

"Serve treason, and protect the corrupt."

Wed, 11/12/2014 - 15:33 | 5441231 Monty Burns
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Larry is truly truly truly the luckiest man alive. And his family as well.  http://irishsavant.blogspot.ie/2011/11/lucky-larry-luckiest-man-alive.ht...

Wed, 11/12/2014 - 15:01 | 5441090 Divided States ...
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I dont need to read this shit on ZH...I have every fuckin channel already covering this event which is a diversion for the sheeps as the financial raping continues.

Wed, 11/12/2014 - 15:06 | 5441120 Groundhog Day
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I SAID IT BEFORE AND I'LL SAY IT AGAIN.  WE CAN SEND A ROVER TO MARS (MILLIONS OF MILES AWAY) HAVE IT SAMPLE SOIL, SEND US RESULTS, LAND A ROVER ON A MOVING COMET, BUT WE CAN'T SEEM TO BE ABLE TO GET AN ACCURATE GDP AND UNEMPLOYMENT NUMBER....SO MANY FUCKING MOVING PARTS I GUESS

Wed, 11/12/2014 - 15:32 | 5441149 TruthInSunshine
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One of the window washers recently had a Brazilian butt lift.

#KimKardashianSwampAss

Wed, 11/12/2014 - 15:16 | 5441163 OW My Balls
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You're missing the whole point.

 

Those 'window washers' are probably corporate spies who were trying to put miniature cameras & bugging devices on the windows to steal secrets.

Wed, 11/12/2014 - 15:18 | 5441169 kaiserhoff
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OT

The rat shit plaguemeister, illegal alien Duncan's family is suing the hospital.

The cost of Barry's treason just keeps going up.

Wed, 11/12/2014 - 16:12 | 5441405 pods
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Court should be a hoot if reports of him lying about wheelbarrowing a relative to the hospital in Africa are correct.

He probably costed the hospital millions, almost killed two nurses, and his family is suing cause they couldn't save his poor ass?

Cry me a river.

pods

Wed, 11/12/2014 - 17:34 | 5441698 Jonathan Equine...
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the complete unwillingness to do what the majority of Amerians want, enforce immigration law, is dereliction of duty.

 

I can't figure out why they insist on doing it while engaging in some token deportations to piss off theLa Raza /pro-open borders crowd.  Is it really about dem votes and cheap labor?  If both parties are so corrupt they out to be proscribed. 

 

We should be letting in all the foreign PhDs we can, but not the dishwashers and the Duncans.  We don't need those guys.  We have 15-20 million of them already and still it is not enough for La Raza.

Wed, 11/12/2014 - 16:08 | 5441382 Mr Pink
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Jackson Hearn wears panties??

Wed, 11/12/2014 - 17:34 | 5441701 DaddyO
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I thought that panties were standard issue for those media types...metrosexuals and all.

DaddyO

Wed, 11/12/2014 - 15:02 | 5441099 Bloppy
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Window washers = doing perilous work for low pay

Crooked currency fixers = doing no work at all for huge windfalls

 

Scathing parody video may signal the end of MSNBC:

http://tinyurl.com/lsbtdwk


Wed, 11/12/2014 - 15:20 | 5441188 Aeternus
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It's very simple, the hallowed ground on which they built this new world order tower upon is CURSED! It shall be a haunted monument inside it's walls and outside it's false facade of freedom from here to kingdome come!

Sins of the oligarchs!

SINS OF THE OLIGARCHS!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDT5OpIYPUE

BEWARE!

Wed, 11/12/2014 - 15:24 | 5441199 ejmoosa
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If anything could be haunted, it would be the White House and Congress by the Founding Fathers...

That's why I don't bekieve in ghosts...

Wed, 11/12/2014 - 16:12 | 5441406 Mr Pink
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A window washer was rescued last night on "The Flash".  The Flash's first name is Barry. Coincidence? I think not

Wed, 11/12/2014 - 14:57 | 5441069 Jonathan Equine...
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I hope that rig doesn't take out a load-bearing window and cause the structure to collapse at near free fall speed into its own footprint - rooftop first.

Wed, 11/12/2014 - 15:11 | 5441144 Ignatius
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Set a few random fires and they'll be down in a jiffy.

Wed, 11/12/2014 - 15:11 | 5441148 Hamm Jamm
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tripping off thermite on the way down    LOL

Wed, 11/12/2014 - 15:25 | 5441202 Aeternus
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Never has the truth of sarcasm been so poignant, dreadful and sorrowfully stated without the weeping of the masses in understanding deceitful lies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDT5OpIYPUE

Wed, 11/12/2014 - 15:57 | 5441338 Cacete de Ouro
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Someone check the gold vault in the basement. There is a gold vault in the basement isn't there? What are all those unmarked trucks doing driving out of the service tunnel?

Wed, 11/12/2014 - 14:56 | 5441072 jimmytorpedo
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That's why bankers should wash their own windows.

Wed, 11/12/2014 - 15:16 | 5441167 ejmoosa
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They can only engage in risk free activities.  So unless the Fed installs a safety net, they no can do...

Wed, 11/12/2014 - 14:58 | 5441073 drink or die
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5 points on the Dow for every window that gets broken on the way down if the scaffolding falls.

Wed, 11/12/2014 - 14:57 | 5441076 LetsGetPhysical
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"Cat stuck in tree, more news at 6pm." Hard hitting journalisn right here. 

Wed, 11/12/2014 - 15:00 | 5441079 Glass Seagull
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And the curse of WT1 begins...

Wed, 11/12/2014 - 14:58 | 5441080 motorollin
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As a former communications tower climber, I can safely say: fuck that.

Wed, 11/12/2014 - 14:59 | 5441084 Be_Optimistic
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Have they ruled out terrorism yet?

Wed, 11/12/2014 - 15:07 | 5441116 General Decline
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I suggest a thorough check of the sidewalk beneath for any suspicious passports.

Wed, 11/12/2014 - 17:45 | 5441744 kchrisc
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Going need to have the TSA sexually molesting people before they board any window washer carts in the future. Will also need to irradiate them as well.

An American, not US subject.

 

"Sorry, for security purposes no snow globes are allowed to travel on any window washer cart. Please deposit them in the provided receptacles."

Wed, 11/12/2014 - 14:59 | 5441085 swass
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That job would seriously suck.

Wed, 11/12/2014 - 15:00 | 5441089 saints51
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Some asshole is likely watching them through the window sipping on a coffee.

Wed, 11/12/2014 - 15:04 | 5441110 buzzsaw99
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yes, and pointing at a corner saying "you missed a spot".

Wed, 11/12/2014 - 15:08 | 5441123 saints51
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LOL!!!! +1

Wed, 11/12/2014 - 15:16 | 5441165 TruthInSunshine
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Eating Pastrami on rye, bagel with a schmear of cream cheese, and a
stickle of a deli pickle.

Wed, 11/12/2014 - 15:29 | 5441219 saints51
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I am willing to bet one asshole was doing something like this. Rather having a beverage or finger food. It just fits.

Wed, 11/12/2014 - 15:33 | 5441225 kaiserhoff
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That is truly sick, buzz.

So, why didn't I think of that?

Wed, 11/12/2014 - 15:03 | 5441102 Kreditanstalt
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Lots of Obamaphones and other "bread"...this must be the "circuses"...

Wed, 11/12/2014 - 16:06 | 5441358 Cacete de Ouro
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Barry's on the first hole of the day but he's said to be receiving a blow by blow account via a live hook up

Wed, 11/12/2014 - 15:03 | 5441105 Stoploss
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A world full of technology, yet, we still need two dumbasses to go clean windows 100 stories up...

Must be a window washer union. That explains most of the story right there...

Wed, 11/12/2014 - 15:39 | 5441253 williambanzai7
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Robots are afraid of heights

Wed, 11/12/2014 - 15:08 | 5441121 Stoploss
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Good News!!!

Applications are being taken for WTC window washer positions!!!

Wed, 11/12/2014 - 15:09 | 5441135 NYPoke
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Doing God's work...and God ain't happy.

Wed, 11/12/2014 - 15:10 | 5441137 cherry picker
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Karma

I hope they are OK

However, I think the site is tainted.  Some may think it is superstition and it may well be, but we'll see what time brings forth.

Wed, 11/12/2014 - 15:13 | 5441152 Ignatius
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Haunted?  God, I'd love to believe that.

Wed, 11/12/2014 - 15:11 | 5441142 Seasmoke
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Bullish for November unemployment numbers. 

Wed, 11/12/2014 - 15:15 | 5441154 jubber
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fuck ain't rocket science break the window from the inside throw them a rope and pull them in, how fucking hard is that?

Wed, 11/12/2014 - 15:27 | 5441168 oddjob
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The firefighters had to loot the office first.

Wed, 11/12/2014 - 15:17 | 5441174 Ignatius
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Pressurized building - break out a window carefully.

Wed, 11/12/2014 - 15:24 | 5441180 Monty Burns
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Or why not get one of those Cessna pilots who demonstrated such uncanny WTC-related skills on 9/11 to rescue them?  Some of them are still alive you know, back in Saudi.

Wed, 11/12/2014 - 16:16 | 5441422 pods
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That window might be holding up the joint. 
You never know.

In NYC, the laws of physics can be bent depending on how much terrorism insurance you carry.

pods 

Wed, 11/12/2014 - 15:20 | 5441177 Hamm Jamm
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Everything starts to drop when you end QE !  (stocks, window washers, my pants )       C'mon yellen, you soggy old hag, we need more FIAT to fuel " the Bubble " !

 

Wed, 11/12/2014 - 15:19 | 5441178 SharkBit
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Put Jamie Dimon under the scaffolding and let it rip.  Sorry big guy.

Wed, 11/12/2014 - 16:48 | 5441558 Cacete de Ouro
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This could be Jamie's Christmas card shoot. Just boost him up to the scaffolding with a racket and some tennis balls and let it rip. That would make a swell Christmas card back...drop

Wed, 11/12/2014 - 15:21 | 5441192 silentboom
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I hope that doesn't cause the building to collapse into it's own footprint.

Wed, 11/12/2014 - 15:29 | 5441221 Civilizedworm
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Dang it every one beat me to the 9-11 jokes!

Wed, 11/12/2014 - 15:39 | 5441260 QQQBall
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I guess soiling panties passes for shit my pants these days. Candy ass MOFO - man up

Wed, 11/12/2014 - 16:30 | 5441483 Dre4dwolf
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It's an Omen of an impeding market crash.

 

Wed, 11/12/2014 - 17:19 | 5441661 Jonathan Equine...
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very glad they're safe, for sure, but...

http://www.ny1.com/content/news/218787/window-washers-rescued-from-1-wtc...

They couldn't be illegal immgirants could they?  Dunno their pay rate, but hear its often 35+  -really, no 'Americans' are willing to do this work.

 

Sigh.

Wed, 11/12/2014 - 17:43 | 5441741 NoWayJose
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The architects should be the ones cleaning the windows.  It would be so much safer and better if they designed features to get the windows washed!

Wed, 11/12/2014 - 18:11 | 5441835 exartizo
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those are two dumbass window cleaners.

Wed, 11/12/2014 - 19:47 | 5442176 mendolover
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Brand new week old cable.  Nice.  And the comet story is complete bullshit.

Wed, 11/12/2014 - 19:51 | 5442186 Bunga Bunga
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I guess Silverstein had a dentist appointment at that time.

Wed, 11/12/2014 - 20:15 | 5442261 Muppet
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This will be later recalled as a terrosim plot that the Government stopped.

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