But the strangest might now be,
The two in love from high above
Who were safely arrested as they said "I love thee."
That they weren't electrocuted is only because the authorities saw that they were up there and cut the power. Signals had to be switched. What were they thinking? Love.
I will forever member the pair of Christmas party lovers, who when in a vintage Pennsylvania Railroad passenger car leased for the event that was sitting on tracks in Penn Station, used by Amtrak and New Jersey Transit, that had high voltage catenary wire overh0ead, left the party to get better acquainted.
The amorous couple couldn't find a broom closet, so they left the party and climbed onto the roof of the train car with the live wires overhead. In that instance, no one knew anyone had put their lives in danger of being electrocuted, and the power remained on. The force was with them and they died for love.
The Russian couple from East Orange New Jersey was luckier than the copulating couple on a train track. Since they were brought down alive, they were arrested and charged with numerous charges: felony burglary, reckless endangerment, criminal mischief, along with misdemeanor raps of possession of burglary tools and criminal trespass.
Perhaps needless to say, they didn't get to go out for a celebratory dinner, but were jailed awaiting arraignment later on Wednesday. That would have been a fun night court to be at.
A maintenance door had been breached. There will certainly be an internal investigation since the building's security thought they had already done enough to prevent trespass near the top for selfies. Well, I guess not. Did any of the activity show up on CCTV? More questions.
Tall buildings are forever an attraction for stunts. Didn't someone parachute off the Empire State Building? Yes. Didn't someone free base off it? Yes. Didn't Phillippe Petit do a high wire act between the nearly completed original Trade Center Towers? Yes. Didn't Martians invade the observation deck? Well, sort of.
My daughter Susan, a long-time "I Love Lucy" fan, reminded me of Lucy and Ethel dressed as Martians on the observation deck. Parts of the episode were actually filmed on the deck. Lucy and Ethel were doing it as a publicity stunt to raise money for a charity. It was another one of Lucy's wacky adventures with Ethel dragged along.
This is the same daughter who didn't actually climb the Empire State Building, but instead invited herself and her friend, into the family dentist's office on the 77th floor, without an appointment, just to see the gorgeous view Dr. B. had looking south.
Aside from proposing, why did the couple choose a proposal site that even Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce left for others? World Peace.
Atop the tower, with no safety harnesses, they unfurled a black banner with white lettering. A quote that the New York Post tells us is misattributed to Jimi Hendrix: "when the power of love beats the love of power the world knows peace," but is really a quote from a 19th century British politician William Gladstone.
No report yet on how the case will be settled, When Phillipe Petit was arrested after his high wire act he was fined $110, representing the number of stories in each World Trace Center tower.
Love makes you do dangerous and crazy things.
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