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You're asking why dropping things out of a window in midtown Manhattan might be illegal? It's a boring question anyway; this is HN.
by cantSpellSober 2y ago
You're asking why dropping things out of a window in midtown Manhattan might be illegal?
It's a boring question anyway; this is HN.
- prepend 2y agoYes, that’s what I’m asking. Dropping things shouldn’t be illegal. Negligence that causes harm should be. Someone lowering a hat down on a string seems perfectly fine. Throwing a chair out a window seems bad. I think the details would affect whether someone is illegal, not just a blanket “thou shall not throw things out the window.” There’s already laws about littering and assault, so I don’t think that would matter how many floors up we are. Why ask boring questions?
- fwip 2y agoWell, it's not carefully lowered down on a string, it's dropped from the height of the window, which you can see in the video.
- cantSpellSober 2y agoOh man people will argue about anything. You had to change "dropping things out of a window in midtown Manhattan" (fairly high up as we see) to "dropping things" even to argue :) > the details would affect whether someone [sic] is illegal Yep, that's how we apply laws. Who cares? I assume most people here are grey/blackhats (rainbow in this case).
- stenius 2y agoThe prop on the hat acts as a para-shoot slowing down the hat via auto rotation. It's the same behavior that a helicopter would have if it was doing an emergency landing as well.