10 Hours of Walking in NYC as a Man Tightrope Walking

2,190 views · Published 30 October 2014 · 1:52 · Indexed 21 October 2026

Channel: hyperophone · 2014 · People & Blogs

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1000+ instances of verbal street harassment
took place within 10 minutes, involving people of "all backgrounds". This doesn't include the
countless winks, whistles, etc.

Many have accused him of "asking for it" by wearing tight-fitting clothing, while balancing on a tight-fitting rope.

Learn more about tight-walker harrasment here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe_Petit

See the documentary here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_on_Wire

And donate to doctors without borders, maybe?
https://donate.doctorswithoutborders.org/onetime.cfm

...I mean, let's not forget that while we're all hyper-focused here on some first-world non-issue of verbal street harassment or whatever, there are LITERALLY thousands of people (soon to be hundreds of thousands) dying each day in Western Africa from horrible freaking Ebola, okay! 
Shall we give it a little break possibly?

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