RonB wrote:
Many who travel through the lower Midwest know about Bug Brutus. It
is a huge electric-driven scoop shovel located in the extreme SE
corner of Kansas. When erected, during he early 1960's, it was the
largest shovel in the world; and was used for strip coal mining. It
was decommissioned several years later; but has been preserved as part
of a pretty neat coal mining museum near West Mineral, Ks.

Apparently some area base jumpers have been eying Brutus' 1960 boom.
One gave it a shot this past week.

http://fourstateshomepage.com/conten...xt/?cid=104441

Brutus won.

Needed the right equipment. Here's a video of a 60+-year-old woman
rappelling down an abandoned bridge abutment to rescue a kitten.

http://www.viddler.com/explore/cheezburger/videos/283/

'Course she had some skill, too. Second oldest woman to scale Mt Everest,
oldest woman to climb the tallest mountains on each of the seven continents,
etc. She's climbed the following (among others):

Rainier
Athabasca
Adams
Kilimanjaro
Mt. Hood
Shasta
Glacier Peak
Elbrus
Aconcagua
Denali
Ecuador Volcanoes
Baker
Cho

She heard the kitten on her morning four-mile jog. And so on.

Still, the kitten got to the ledge before she did...