A Century Old Bridge, Acrobats, Digital Cameras, and the Police

On Monday nighttime I walked home instead of taking the power train . But rather than the expected trot back , principal make full with MP3s and trivial else , languorously douse in sweat , I saw a fair sex dangling from the top of a nosepiece .

It ’d be more correct to say other people understand a adult female dangle from the top of a bridgework — a big crowd had gathered along the middle of the Williamsburg Bridge that spans Manhattan and Brooklyn . Like any human being , when you see a clump of people looking up , you look up — phylogeny has give us that reflex so as to forfend elephant stampede and asteroid . But there was n’t any impendent doom — just a adult female , dressed in ribbony red , slue and spinning along a U - regulate area of cloth fall between the bridge ’s iron towers .

The bridge , completed in 1903 , is always bombinate — trains , cars , wheeler , and comatose dude like me to the brim . But we all stopped and search up — most of us through the mediate eye of an LCD . I ’m always surprised by how many people have a DSLR on them , as if they ’re anticipate a spectacle like this . The rest of us just used our phones . I do n’t conceive many the great unwashed inconvenience actually looking at strange sight any longer — much better to memorialize it and upload later , correct ? “ Being there ” has become sort of quaint , it would seem .

The aerialist finished her act , to much clapping and many whistling , and began to slowly condescend . Police arrived , of course , as I theorize you ca n’t have people climbing hundreds of feet in the aura over busy dealings zones , no matter how delightful their climbing is . They were impede by the bunch — to further cheers — give the acrobat and her masked collaborator some clock time to quite literally run off into the sundown . We all cheered more !

And then it was over , we all put our headphones back in , and eagerly texted the photos around — with in all likelihood more elan than we ’d felt during the show . I seek to check into the bridge on Foursquare but I could n’t get any reception .

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