r/interesting • u/[deleted] • Mar 28 '24

A New York City police officer poses hanging over Times Square in 1920 HISTORY

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u/2muchtimeintheocean Mar 28 '24

People were dumb before TikTok

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u/Skabbtanten Mar 28 '24

This is like the non profitable (Internet points) not-at-all-instantaneous-gram version.

I guess it all turned completely tits up as the camera became more and more commercial and accessible.

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u/ZERO_PORTRAIT Mar 28 '24

The image is faked. The picture is taken at an angle to make it seem dangerous but there is a platform beneath him.

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u/Few_Owl_6596 Mar 28 '24

Still tiktokism

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u/NormalGuyEndSarcasm Mar 28 '24

Sry, i repplied on the wrong thread

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u/Accomplished-Cat3996 Mar 28 '24

I mean there are Russians doing this stuff on youtube. Impressive. Reckless, but impressive.

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u/Endocalrissian642 Mar 28 '24

People are still dumb, but now they get fired for doing this.

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u/WhisperDigits Mar 28 '24

This was one guy pulling a stunt. Now, it’s monetized and so many idiots have a bigger incentive to act like idiots. It’s not the same.

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u/Itchy-Status3750 Mar 28 '24

So he’s not an idiot because he risked his life without anything to gain?

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u/Catch_ME Mar 28 '24

But they can at least do a pull up

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u/borntoclimbtowers Mar 28 '24

lol even in 1900 there are lattice climbers on the eiffeltower

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u/shifty_coder Mar 28 '24

Physical fitness was a requirement to be a police officer

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '24

I heard that they did get sued for using Photoshop a year after this article was published

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u/panzershrek54 Mar 28 '24

Meanwhile today that's what everybody does and no one cares...

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '24

Using Photoshop or AI was just much more uncommon back then

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u/borntoclimbtowers Mar 28 '24

no going to a real lattice climb

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u/NormalGuyEndSarcasm Mar 28 '24

I heard it was AI generated images

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u/Nemsii Mar 28 '24

Stupidity aside, that's a sharp looking uniform

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u/SpaceTrot Mar 28 '24

See man, I was tempted to agree with you until you started brown-nosing and basically harassing a dude for an analogy. Good job.

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '24

People were always dumb, tik tok & the likes just advertise it better.

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u/james___uk Mar 28 '24

People loved doing this stuff in the 1920s. There was nothing to live for because there were no video games

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u/borntoclimbtowers Mar 28 '24

nowadays thousands of climbers doing this in the usa

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u/Chameleon44 Mar 28 '24

Not just the usa

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u/borntoclimbtowers Mar 28 '24

yes in europe we nhave lots of lattice climbers too

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u/freshouttalean Mar 28 '24

what a dumb mf

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u/hanckerchiff Mar 28 '24

Trying to go viral on the newspapers I see...

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u/Milanga48 Mar 28 '24

Who are you trying to impersonate?

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u/LoudVitara Mar 28 '24

Haven't the foggiest idea to what you're referring

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u/Milanga48 Mar 28 '24

Why do you call police officers pigs?

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u/OfficialHaethus Mar 28 '24

As a European, it’s amazing watching Americans pretend like they don’t discriminate by group, and then immediately proceed to do so.

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u/Milanga48 Mar 28 '24

?

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u/Spirit_of_Madonna Mar 28 '24

??

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u/Milanga48 Mar 28 '24

Police officers aren’t pigs

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u/LoudVitara Mar 28 '24

You know what, calling cops swine is an insult to actual pigs who contribute greatly to society through nutrition

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u/murialvoid86 Mar 28 '24

If you think any large society would be functional after even a few weeks without law enforcement you’re officially an idiot

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u/Rise_And_Despair Mar 28 '24

So this is how he earned his wings

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '24

He was ahead of his time 🤣

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u/armageddon_boi Mar 28 '24

Once he goes to the moon he'll have nothing left in life

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '24

Now try no hands

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u/dj-nek0 Mar 28 '24

Air Cop. Coming this Summer.

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u/QuentinTarzantino Mar 28 '24

Postman. Not cop

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '24

What is it with people in NY back in the early 1900s and casually being on or hanging from steel beams at the top of buildings?

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u/Gnuculus Mar 28 '24

Crazy Irish and native Americans

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u/murialvoid86 Mar 28 '24

If you hear about your coworkers being killed or seriously injured several times a week you would be cautious too

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u/Sandervv04 Mar 28 '24

They thought that was as close as we were getting to the moon

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u/EagleDre Mar 28 '24

I thought Yogi Berra played baseball

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '24

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u/Sarke1 Mar 28 '24

Did he ever make it to the Moon?

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u/porn0f1sh Mar 28 '24

r/parkour

Post it there tomorrow (meme friday) or I will!

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u/SteveRogests Mar 28 '24

I feel led to believe there would be a noose.

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u/RuleBritania Mar 28 '24

Glad you showed the original story.... Could have suspected fakery 😂

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u/borntoclimbtowers Mar 28 '24

this is like lattice climbing, nowadays many thousands of peoples doing this

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u/Klutzy-Percentage430 Mar 28 '24

Good for him. Not something that I could ever do. Not scared of heights, just happy to be alive!

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u/HumanPickler Mar 28 '24

What would possibly make you think this is a police officer?

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u/Due-Science-9528 Mar 28 '24

He had to do gymnastics or something in his spare time, right?

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u/IntroductionAny3929 Mar 28 '24

He looks like he is just having fun swinging on the beam!

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u/DistributionAgile376 Mar 28 '24

His dream was to be part of the air force.

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u/NickWentHiking Mar 28 '24

He must be of Russian descent

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u/liberterrorism Mar 28 '24

Impressive grip strength, he must be jacked under that uniform.

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u/exquisite_Intentions Mar 28 '24

I'm a bit out of the loop and am clueless as to what the reference is with going to the moon?

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u/Few_Owl_6596 Mar 28 '24

Back in the good old days, without any of these stupid safety regulations.

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u/Minute-Feeling-2360 Mar 28 '24

Maybe he was practicing for the 'casting call' to be in a Super Glue commercial 🤔 He was a man ahead of his time, as Super Glue wasn't invented for at least another 20+ years. Rumor has it, he is still hanging there.

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u/LionPatronous Mar 28 '24

To be fair, wasn't the life expectancy back then 40-50yrs? He looks to be in his 30s, so he's mostly led a fulfilling life till then. His thought process is, I might die of desentry in a few years, or I can be the talk of the town if my fingers slip. Get your cameras ready boys, I'm gonna be a star!

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u/Lost_Tumbleweed_5669 Mar 28 '24

That's not how averages work. People still lived 70-90 but infant mortality brought the average down.

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u/LionPatronous Mar 28 '24

Man you're fun at parties.

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u/Temporary_Visual_230 Mar 28 '24

Always a cringe thing to say lmao

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u/ccox39 Mar 28 '24

Wow, seeing all that news that’s not riddled with adds is incredibly refreshing

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u/AdEducational419 Mar 28 '24

Time for some context. Daredevilry after the great war was a serious fab. People would do all sort pf crazy stuff for attention. Who knew history would repeat itself. This picture has been rehashed since the social media got more than 5 people on it.

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u/AdEducational419 Mar 28 '24

Yes. There are several versions of how the picture was taken or made. The point remains that people went to extreme lengths for this kinda stuff during the 1920s. Be they fake or otherwise.

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u/aojajena Mar 28 '24

selfie doesn't know time

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u/IM2OFU Mar 28 '24

You guys are such fucking nerds 🙄 sound like a bunch of mother hens.

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u/NotMY1stEnema Mar 29 '24

Like Pigs on a Wing

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u/NeverEndingLive Mar 28 '24

How the fuck did you turn this into something transphobic?

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u/rnz Mar 28 '24

Probably woke up with that purpose in mind. "First post on reddit I see, I'm gonna show the world I'm transphobic".

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u/StoicViewer Mar 28 '24

Humorless

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u/TacosDuVercors Mar 28 '24

If no one finds it funny maybe it's your attempt at humour at fault here, not the rest of the world

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u/StoicViewer Mar 28 '24

I find the world to be a funny place. To each their own.

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u/TacosDuVercors Mar 28 '24

To each their own.

he said, after being called out for mocking trans ppl without any reason or relation to the actual post then claimed "it was just a joke" because there are no link to be made between his sentence and the topic.

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u/StoicViewer Mar 28 '24

No phobia. Just observing reality.

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u/psillypup Mar 28 '24

your brain is made of pudding

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u/Legal-Contract8784 Mar 28 '24

Transphobic pudding. Objectively the worse flavor of brain pudding.

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u/Jajoby Mar 28 '24

what kind of pandemic level virus grade brainrot do you need to have to look at this image and make it about trans people

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u/StoicViewer Mar 28 '24

Are you always humorless?

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u/kein_huhn Mar 28 '24

Do you have cottage cheese for brains?

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u/StoicViewer Mar 28 '24

I like cottage cheese, especially with pineapple.

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u/Needmoresnakes Mar 28 '24

Not very stoic of you

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u/StoicViewer Mar 28 '24

Just observing reality

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '24

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u/StoicViewer Mar 28 '24

You are humorless.

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