# Lech Walesa is walking 500 feet!

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [August 10, 2012, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lech-walesa-is-walking-500-feet/631027 "2012-08-10T01:07:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2012, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lech-walesa-is-walking-500-feet/631027/1 "2012-08-10T01:07:10Z")

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“Lech Walesa is walking 500 feet!”

“Uh… OK?”

_Great. Was a Hero of the Counterrevolution paralyzed while I dozed? Is this valid news?_

“Turn on FOX News! Lech Walesa is walking 500 feet above the ground!”

“What?”

_"Solidarnosc Man is risen! Solidarnosc Man is coming for Zombie Chernenko_! Solidarnosc Man’s foot will not be divided or destroyed!"\*

“Turn on FOX! A Flying Wallenda is walking 500 feet above the ground!”

“OK… OK… Sure. I’m at the store right now.”

\*I’m happily without cable or satellite right now. You know this. Hero Poles walking on stilts or whatever else won’t change that.

And since when did Lech Walesa become a Flying Wallenda?\*

[As it turns out, Nik Wallenda is now the first person to walk a tightrope across Niagara Falls.](http://www.usatoday.com/USCP/PNI/Nation/World/2012-06-16-PNI0616wir-wallenda-tightrope_ST_U.htm)

Slowly I turned, step by step, _inch by inch_, but the flying Pole had beaten me to it! I mean, it happened in June.

Ya gotta love family, right?

\*(How do you tell Zombie Chernenko from Living Chernenko? Zombie Chernenko looks better!)

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**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2012, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lech-walesa-is-walking-500-feet/631027/2 "2012-08-10T01:28:47Z")

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[He walked over Atlantic City today.](http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2012/08/wire-walker-wallenda-wows-atlantic-city/1#.UCRjuF8kySo) Nik Wallenda, I mean. Not Lech Walesa.

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**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2012, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lech-walesa-is-walking-500-feet/631027/3 "2012-08-10T01:41:08Z")

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Asked for comments, Lech Walesa said, “Very impressive. Tight rope walking. Really puts my life in perspective. I mean, what did I ever do? Just defy the Soviet Empire and bring freedom to my homeland. Nothing worth remembering like walking across a rope or anything.”