Falling Ice
From ProjectLoop
Falling ice One of the strange signs that is displayed downtown, that people have become familiar with, and don't even give a second thought for the most part is "Warning, Falling Ice". What can you do if ice is falling, and you need to try to avoid it. I don't think it happens like in the cartoons, where you hear a sound of a shooting bullet, and then you look up, and realize it's there, but then back to reality, you jump out of the way (I say back to reality, because in a cartoon you'd be hit, and survive). The truth is that many people have died from the falling ice. Can't the building engineers figure out a way to make it so that ice doesn't form on the edges of the buildings, and then fall.
Imagine this...
One day you decide to venture to the city of Downtown Chicago, and you are walking without a worry in the world, and then all of a sudden, there's that shooting bullet whistling through the air. And ouch, you are hit. You are rushed to the nearest hospital, and your family members are called. It's too late, you couldn't survive. Is it worth the risk of going downtown? It might even be worthy of the Darwin Award. The award that is given to people who remove themselves from the world in the most interesting way. A little cynical, I know, but I didn't make up the award after all. I don't know if this would qualify though, because it wasn't your fault, I think that it might have to be, but nevertheless. Watch out.
Both of these pictures were taken on Michigan Avenue in downtown Chicago during the winter season. Because of casualties in the past, big buildings and skyscrapers put out signs like these to warn passerbys.
