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"Bruce Esquibel" <bje@e4500.ripco.com> wrote in message 
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> Ron T. <not@home> wrote:
>
>> I regret I didn't have the opportunity to urinate off the top of that 
>> before
>> I fled.
>
>
> I don't think I've ever been in Sears Tower and although I didn't piss off
> of it, I did make it up to the roof of the Standard Oil building.
>
> A freind of mine was doing some kind of maintance work and had these 
> simple
> "contractor" id badges that would let you roam around pretty much anywhere
> you wanted to. This was all in the pre-9/11 days.
>
> I don't remember if I met him down there for a reason, like grabbing 
> dinner
> or whatever but after looking around at the shop in the basement he said I
> have something neat to show you. It was obvious from the number of 
> elevators
> we transfered from (some only went 2-3 floors before you walked across or
> down the hall to another) where we were going but the last door he opened 
> it
> was sort of neat seeing daylight.
>
> So I went with him to look around on the roof.
>
> There are railroad tracks along the edge which is for the window washing
> rigs, I never crossed those, thus never looked straight down from the
> not-really high wall that surrounds the top.
>
> But it was neat looking straight across the sight line and only seeing
> horizon, and the top of the John Hancock Center "like across the street".
>
> -bruce
> bje@ripco.com

I remember watching the light bulb on top of the Hancock, I think, getting 
changed on TV.

Or maybe it was a new antenna.

Point being, this guy's sitting right at the top, and the camera's apnning 
around, and I still have the fingerprint impressions in the arm of my 
leather sofa.