There's daring accomplishments, there's "crazy" and then there's....

66fyssh said
Damn @Treblig! Its crazy how crazy we were in our youth!!!

While working the LMR (Land Mobile Radio) shop during my Air Force career I had the added responsibility of being the QA for anything the contractor repaired. One time, the contractor had to add a new LMR antenna to the top of the water tower. When he got done, I was to inspect it to make sure it was a quality installation. I made it about 10 rungs up before I looked around and could see what seemed like 50 miles (It was in Del Rio, Texas!) and hurried back down. From the ground, it looked like a very good installation!!!
Here's the only pic I could find of it, its the wider one in the back.

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Yes we have a few of those tall water towers here in town..I always wanted to climb one but the fencing and safety cages they put around the ladder sections are difficult to breach. You have no idea how many times I parked in front of one of these water towers and tried to figure out how to get to the ladder. I was also in the Air Force but all did was assemble, test and troubleshoot Thermonuclear Weapons.
I had a full life of DANGER!!