4. Climbing Great Heights
Someone saw a silhouette curled up on the counterweight of a crane. Onlookers thought it was someone attempting suicide. The person was high up above ground and it was 2 a.m. Turns out, it was a girl asleep on top of a narrow metal beam crane. She likely walked out of her home unnoticed. The security guard did not see her. And she managed to sleep-climb 130 feet to the top of the crane. The entire time she was completely unaware that she was in a dangerous predicament – and on the brink of death. A fireman climbed up but could not wake her up. Waking her could cause her to panic and fall to her death. It took two hours to rescue her. Rescuers brought her down by hydraulic lift and she suffered no injuries. Upon her rescue, her parents said that she was a frequent sleep-walker.
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