WWYD? What would you do IF your 13 yr old climbed a local TV tower and posted a pic from up on high of Brookside on Instagram?
Good kid did this alone and offered to show his mom how he did it; "just exploring" was his explanation.
Quote from: ARGUS on August 06, 2014, 12:02:18 PM
WWYD? What would you do IF your 13 yr old climbed a local TV tower and posted a pic from up on high of Brookside on Instagram?
Good kid did this alone and offered to show his mom how he did it; "just exploring" was his explanation.
Make sure your health/accident insurance is paid.
Quote from: ARGUS on August 06, 2014, 12:02:18 PM
WWYD? What would you do IF your 13 yr old climbed a local TV tower and posted a pic from up on high of Brookside on Instagram?
Good kid did this alone and offered to show his mom how he did it; "just exploring" was his explanation.
I'd prob smile myself since I had no idea I had a 13 year old son.
I'd prob ask him to think about the consequences, what they'd mean to the ones who love him and ask him to refrain from doing something like that again.
I did worse things when I was 13.
How tall was the tower? Sounds like me and my friends at 13. I would patiently, but firmly explain the concept of private property, trespass and mortality. Then take the phone for a week.
Put him to work at Samsung.....
I told my friend (who's son climbed the tower) that he could get in trouble and blamed for ALL if ANY vandalism on said tower,possibly get burned or radiated (ok I exaggerated on this one),arrested for being a terrorist, etc.
Quote from: ARGUS on August 06, 2014, 01:17:24 PM
I told my friend (who's son climbed the tower) that he could get in trouble and blamed for ALL if ANY vandalism on said tower,possibly get burned or radiated (ok I exaggerated on this one),arrested for being a terrorist, etc.
When Clear Channel's tower was climbed, everything had to be shut down because of the radiation (so it's not much of an exaggeration).
...but not to seem insensitive, Im curious to see the photo.
From Tower guy to Tower kid. Is this becoming a thing? I mean in Tulsa. ::)
It's becoming a fad, kind of like streaking. Just waiting on the Ray Stevens song.
I'd wonder how my child that is too young to drive a car is out climbing brookside.
I'd also wonder how my child is going to graduate high school while being locked in a closet for the next 5 years.
Quote from: sgrizzle on August 06, 2014, 08:56:39 PM
I'd wonder how my child that is too young to drive a car is out climbing brookside.
I'd also wonder how my child is going to graduate high school while being locked in a closet for the next 5 years.
He's going to come out of the closet for his home schooling.....
Quote from: Breadburner on August 06, 2014, 09:40:31 PM
He's going to come out of the closet for his home schooling.....
Or maybe not for awhile yet. It's still kind of frowned on in parts of Tulsa.
Quote from: AquaMan on August 06, 2014, 12:42:55 PM
How tall was the tower? Sounds like me and my friends at 13. I would patiently, but firmly explain the concept of private property, trespass and mortality. Then take the phone for a week.
It's this tall:
(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-2JTSDzOvk-Y/UOPHPIZbJ3I/AAAAAAAAK6c/ZyBbt4HuUjA/s1600/1+Tulsa+TV+2.jpg)
I have always thought that looked like the Lightning electro rods in Dr Frankenstein Laboratory.
Quote from: DolfanBob on August 07, 2014, 08:16:25 AM
I have always thought that looked like the Lightning electro rods in Dr Frankenstein Laboratory.
If Josef Hardt (RIP) could have made that into a giant Jacobs Ladder, he would have.
Now about the photo this kid posted...
Lucky he didn't earn a Darwin.
Quote from: sgrizzle on August 06, 2014, 08:56:39 PM
I'd wonder how my child that is too young to drive a car is out climbing brookside.
I'd also wonder how my child is going to graduate high school while being locked in a closet for the next 5 years.
Variation on home schooling...
There could be copycats...
(http://photos.mycapture.com/TULS/REMOTES/12008833E.jpg)
Quote from: patric on August 08, 2014, 02:26:09 PM
There could be copycats...
(http://photos.mycapture.com/TULS/REMOTES/12008833E.jpg)
Had I beat him, that could be me photographed while staring at my crotch.
That tower looks like the tower Tesla built long ago. Anyhow I guess the reason no one did anything is if they saw a person on the tower they would of figured it was a work man up there. That tower by the Library on Harvard & 32nd had workmen climbing around the top of it last year, it may have been college kids pulling a prank for all anyone knows.