“We were working on the stack up in Flin Flon. Do you know that stack is 750feet high? Anyway we’re working on it and one day we’re going up the man-lift inside and about half-way up the power goes off. Everything shuts down.
“The top of the stack is so far up there it looks like the moon, and the bottom looks like we were flying over the lights of a tiny city at night. We’re about twenty stories up, inside that friggen stack.
“Just sittin’ there. For two hours, just sitting there. In the dark.
“Finally Spindly says; “Fuck this noise. Enough of this horseshit I’m going over the side.”
“He grabs one of the welder cables and starts to slide down the twenty stories. About half way down Spindly hits a patch of grease. He starts to freefall. When he finally gets down his gloves are all ripped, his shirt and pants are all ripped. Even his boots were all ripped.
“Spindly walked away from that cable a changed man.”
Rick Ranson 