Wonder how this one got by the city codes ???
If a mime swears, does his mother make him wash his hands with soap?
Wonder how this one got by the city codes ???
If a mime swears, does his mother make him wash his hands with soap?
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In St. Petersburg, Russia construction is generally multi-story tenement buildings made of brick and concrete slab. Most designs space narrow balconies out across the facade (usually a french look, like a lot of Paris). And it is common to know people or read in the paper of people plummeting to their deaths from balconies falling off - not a lot to do as far as bars / etc., so people socialize at home and small apartments puts all the drunks on the balconies.
Another common death is steam lines bursting in the streets. St. Petersburg has a very high water table, when they patch the street you can see water about 1' under the pavement - and all heating is via a central steam loop, and when it breaks it typically gets repaired with an above-ground run laying along the sidewalk.
Oh, cars swerving off the street and striking pedestrians on the sidewalk is fairly common. Different driving rules apply - mostly economically based, i.e. if you drive a nice car no rules apply because you're very wealthy.
remodeler
"Oh, cars swerving off the street and striking pedestrians on the sidewalk is fairly common. Different driving rules apply - mostly economically based, i.e. if you drive a nice car no rules apply because you're very wealthy."
We adopted our son from St Pete a little over a year ago and got to experience that traffic. We decided the lane striping was simply a suggestion. Three lane road would have six cars lined up at the intersection and 4 or 5 cars across when moving. Thank goodness we had a driver.
Interesting concept- handicap accesible suicide ramps. Must be a photo of a hospital designed by Dr. Kavorkian. (sp?) Terminally ill patients get the rooms with "balconies."
If that light pole was brass I would think someone had come up with one cool fire egress...
Super Hero apartments maybe?
AHA! I've got it! NIGHTCLUB! It's got to be a nightclub!
Kevin Halliburton
"One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man." -Elbert Hubbard-
A night club? Or a nudie bar?
That particular thought hadn't occurred to me. But it has some interesting possibilities..........If a chronic liar tells you he is a chronic liar do you believe him?
On second thought, it can't be a nightclub- It looks like there are too many ways to actually get out of the building. Kevin Halliburton
"One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man." -Elbert Hubbard-
One must know, was the light pole there before the balconies or were the balconies over the building line?
WAHD
and as soon as we figure that out, we can get to work on whether it was chicken or egg...
actually, mt bet is on the light pole.
Excellence is its own reward!
I checked with Green peace and got the inside scoop:
The truth is, it's not really a light pole in that picture after all. It's a rare hybrid between a tulip and an aspen tree- Three tree huggers were chained to it for days before they finally agreed not to cut it down. Furthermore, the handrails on the balconies were an impediment to the pigeon's natural flight paths around the tree and were axed in response to environmentally enlightened public unrest.Kevin Halliburton
"One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man." -Elbert Hubbard-
Where was that picture taken? That looks more like pictures I've seen of construction in Turkey or South America than anything I've ever seen in the US.
Don't know anything about the picture - Just ran across it and thought it was interesting.When an agnostic dies, does he go to the "great perhaps"?