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I have my paranoia's, but one of the bigger ones in being hit by a falling object, something flies off a balcony in a gust of wind, someone laughingly drops some object from a high-rise balcony, while walking around a big city, a coconut falls from a palm tree, and now I see a picture of the crater created by this small meteorite leaving a hole 39 feet in radius, 16 feet deep. Fortunately, it fell in a wooded area near Managua's Airport! And? Mind you, this was a small meteorite!
But who's to know, yet, if there might have been some homeless people sleeping there when it happened, or some animals?
When I visit NYC, I crazily think of wearing a hard-hat, while visiting, I'm just that paranoid of something falling on my head from one of those tall buildings. Sheesh! It could even be a human being!
One time, long ago, on a clear blue sky day, I was walking down Madison Avenue, with a friend, and got drenched, including my friend! I looked up and Not a cloud in the sky! Weird! Who knows! Maybe someone decided to have a good laugh and poured a pail of water out of a high rise window! As if an incident like that quelled my paranoia!
How about you? Ever been struck by a falling object? Or known of someone who has?
Truth is, one time, many years ago, I was near the top of an extension ladder while painting the exterior of a home in Palm Beach, Fl.. I had the ladder leaning up against a tall, high, white painted brick chimney while I was brushing out an area near the roof gutter.
Well, there I was, alone and enjoying myself when suddenly, very suddenly, something hurled through the air right just feet above me....it hit the chimney stack and then fell, hitting me in the face...from where it fell to the ground by the driveway...from where it skittered off into the shrubs.
I saw it well as it went from driveway to shrubs....it was a cuckoo bird.
After a trip to NYC in 2009, I opened up a thread on the NYC forum, wondering if people living there ever fear getting hit by falling objects. Interesting! For this paranoiac, I shouldn't have asked!
"An window air-conditioning unit fell from an apartment building one time?" Nope! My hard-hat wouldn't have done me much good if I had become a victim of something like that! That would have pushed my head down into my stomach!
Do other cities have pieces fall off of buildings? It's unusual that someone is killed but things seem to fall off of buildings in Chicago on a regular basis.
Last year, during that super-frigid winter, I read enough articles about icicles falling from skyscrapers in NYC and Chicago, pictures of them roping off areas around the buildings!
A big icicle coming straight down from one of those buildings! Right on top of your head!
Question is, how much damage would there be? Could one of those crack your head open?
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Fortunately, it fell in a wooded area near Managua's Airport! And? Mind you, this was a small meteorite!
Not a cloud in the sky! Weird! Who knows! Maybe someone decided to have a good laugh and poured a pail of water out of a high rise window! As if an incident like that quelled my paranoia!
