# International idiocy - parasailing onto the Statue of Liberty. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 23, 2001, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/international-idiocy-parasailing-onto-the-statue-of-liberty/77727 "2001-08-23T15:12:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![lurkernomore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@lurkernomore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lurkernomore)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2001, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/international-idiocy-parasailing-onto-the-statue-of-liberty/77727/1 "2001-08-23T15:12:10Z")
[http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/08/23/statue.parasail/index.html](http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/08/23/statue.parasail/index.html) well, all the idiots aren’t Americans. They should start a pool, how many lines do the cops cut before he fell? ---
**Author:** ![screech-owl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@screech-owl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/screech-owl)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2001, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/international-idiocy-parasailing-onto-the-statue-of-liberty/77727/2 "2001-08-23T15:16:29Z")
BWAH!! I just saw this on another newsline. So the French give us the Statue of Liberty, then expect to use it as a recreational area? ---
**Author:** ![lawoot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/35a633/32.png) [@lawoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lawoot)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2001, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/international-idiocy-parasailing-onto-the-statue-of-liberty/77727/3 "2001-08-23T15:18:29Z")
And this was so the idiot could bungee jump off the torch! What an idiot! How big did he think the platform of the torch was, anyway? ---
**Author:** ![TroubleAgain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@TroubleAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroubleAgain)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2001, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/international-idiocy-parasailing-onto-the-statue-of-liberty/77727/4 "2001-08-23T17:27:24Z")
I saw this on CNN this morning. You mean this guy did this on purpose??? ---
**Author:** ![lurkernomore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@lurkernomore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lurkernomore)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2001, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/international-idiocy-parasailing-onto-the-statue-of-liberty/77727/5 "2001-08-23T18:25:47Z")
TA, the Statue is on an island in the middle of the harbor. There is no way he missed anything else. He could only land on the statue, the island, or the water. You can’t even go into the arm any more. Structurally unsafe. ---
**Author:** ![Jodi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7feea3/32.png) [@Jodi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jodi)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2001, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/international-idiocy-parasailing-onto-the-statue-of-liberty/77727/6 "2001-08-23T18:53:19Z")
Yeah, he was going to land on the grounds of the Statue of Liberty, and the stunt was meant to protest landmines. (This according to the New York Times.) Um, how does parasailing across the harbor make any meaningful statement about landmines? The picture of the torch draped in red silk was pretty good, though. ---
**Author:** ![rundogrun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/5daacb/32.png) [@rundogrun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rundogrun)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2001, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/international-idiocy-parasailing-onto-the-statue-of-liberty/77727/7 "2001-08-23T19:18:27Z")
They interviewed a tourist who was disappointed that she wouldn’t get to see the Statue of Liberty because now it was closed… You just saw a freakin’ guy hanging off the torch on a parasail!!! Sounds alot more interesting to me. ---
**Author:** ![bughunter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aeb1de/32.png) [@bughunter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bughunter)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2001, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/international-idiocy-parasailing-onto-the-statue-of-liberty/77727/8 "2001-08-23T19:21:06Z")
Actually, I think it would have been cool if he had succeeded. ---
**Author:** ![finnofranco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7993a0/32.png) [@finnofranco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/finnofranco)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2001, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/international-idiocy-parasailing-onto-the-statue-of-liberty/77727/9 "2001-08-23T19:23:58Z")
“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, your idiots, your morons…” ---
**Author:** ![finnofranco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7993a0/32.png) [@finnofranco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/finnofranco)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2001, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/international-idiocy-parasailing-onto-the-statue-of-liberty/77727/10 "2001-08-23T19:24:26Z")
“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, your daredevils, your idiots, your morons…”