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Photos: Fearless "Daredevil Caulker" Risks It All For The Love Of Caulk
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John Del Signore
Published Sep 22, 2014
Modified Sep 22, 2014
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Published Sep 22, 2014
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It's Monday. Summer's over. The climate's still changing. All your hair is leaving your head and relocating to your lower back. TPS reports due. But on the bright side, you're not precariously hanging out of a tenth floor window to do a caulk job... unless in fact you are, in which case maybe focus on that instead of this blog? It's a long way down:
(Courtesy angelmay1978)
Tipster "angelmay1978" sent us photos this morning of a man she describes as a "Daredevil Caulker," observed in the building across the street from her. "He's on the 10th floor standing/squatting on the window sill caulking the outside of the window frame...no harness," our witness reports, noting the building in question is located at Madison Avenue and 49th Street. "I'm about to have a panic attack," she adds.
Yes, this definitely seems dangerous, but the caulker's courageous work this day will be remembered in that office for generations. Fortune favors the bold.
(Courtesy angelmay1978)
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John Del Signore
Originally from the Albany area, John Del Signore has called NYC home since 1995. In addition to his thousands of meticulously-crafted bespoke blog posts for Gothamist, his writing has also been published in The Awl, Deadspin, The Nervous Breakdown, and performed at The Brick Theater in Brooklyn.
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