[cmccuist]

Has anyone seen this documentary? This is the most incredible thing I've ever seen.

Phillipe Petite is a care-free Frenchman going about his business doing juggling and magic tricks and some tight rope walking in the town square. He gets bolder and bolder and ends up stringing a cable across a couple of bridge stanchions in Australia and then walking across them during rush hour.

Well, he sees an artist's rendition of the World Trade Center towers and from that minute on, he's obsessed with walking between them. Even before they were built he was visuallizing the feat. He plans for three years on how to not only get all his gear up to the 104th floor, but how to get a wire across the 200 feet between the towers and anchoring it securely.

Then, with security ready to stop him at any time, he finally gets his wire strung and spends 45 minutes!!! out in the middle of the towers with 1,100 feet of nothing between him and the concrete below.

It's amazing. They arrest him and charge him with trespassing. The ticket actually said "Man on Wire". The judge "sentenced" him to perform a magic show for some kids as punishment. He lives in New York now near Woodstock.