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  • If you haven't seen the film Man on Wire, do so. It's streaming on Netflix right now. The guerilla mission to set up the wire is almost as crazy as the walk itself.

  • That sucked < where is the actual footage ffs

  • @MrKabowski The guy who was supposed to film the walk had spent the last 2 hours trying to hoist the cable back up after Phillipe had let out too much slack on the other side, and was too exhausted to do anything but watch at that point. Petit was on the wire for a total of 45 minutes, but the support team got arrested within 10 minutes of him starting the walk (right when the cops showed up on the roof) so by the time he was rested enough to film, he was already in custody and could only watch.

  • Even though this was almost 40 years ago I still get nervous that he will fall. UGH, heights bug me.

  • "Why are humans so cool?"

    -Phil Dunphy

  • @mesojonistic That's horrible, but it didn't stop me from laughing out loud. Well played, well played.

  • Petit is raising money to walk the grand canyon

  • I can imagine myself fucking screaming dam I wouldnt not do thay for a million dollars and this guy isnt brave he has some mental problems

  • He would have to be the most fearless and fucken retarded person ever!!!!!! What's wrong with just crossing the bloody street. Shit.

  • petit, wallenda, i suppose they think that what they do can be likened to a swimmer in deep water...walking 5 inches or 50 feet above the ground it's the same....i dont know.

  • where's the antanna

    

  • i would faint and fall down if i was him because i have dizziness

  • I bet it's much easier present day : P

  • fuckin slideshow crap

  • i would be scared so much if i were him!!!!!

  • Does anyone else feel like this is the most profound thing they have ever experienced

  • Holy Crap!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!!!!!! 1:43

  • What a psycho. If I even went to the roof of that building I would cling to a metal bar screaming at the top of my lungs.

  • good thing it wasnt on 9/11/01

  • If the Terrorists didn't crash a fucking plane into it, then these would still be here.

  • How did they manage to tie the rope to both towers?

  • @MrIctus I just saw the documentary, Someone else in on it used an arrow to shoot the rope from 1 tower to the other tower, it landed on the corner of the other tower barely. The entire steel rope fell all the way down so they had to spend about an hour to manually get the rope back up. They did it all illegally right under the noses of WTC workers/security and took years of planning. Petit also layed down on the wire, went back and forth 8 times toying with the police, +was on it for 45 minutes

  • back b4 the WTC's biggest threat was a joyous frenchman. I hope they invite him to the inauguration of One World Trade Center.

  • Amazing, this choked me up thinking about how the towers are not there, I bet he was sad, he had such a big smile on his face walking across. That view was like being on top of the world, so amazing.

  • was that a video or a buch of images put together on a corny song?

    

  • @klc9909 Yeah, i guess heroic images and a sentimental song is what i call a certain type of video. If it doesn't move you, fine. But 600,000 views in, i really don't give a fuck.

  • @gmaclachlan9 lol, u can upload a picture of justin bieber puking and get 600 000 views too! XD

    perhaps u could rename ur video to ''tightrope walk SLIDESHOW''

  • @gmaclachlan9 mah, thats wat a justin bieber video gets in like 2 days and it doesnt make it good!

    perhaps u could tag this as ''Twin Towers Tightrope Walk SLIDESHOW''

    Xd ahahah

  • @gmaclachlan9 i thought it was very good video, i liked it very much but i do have one question what is the name of the song

  • @racetracksgirl1899 "High Wire" by Smackmelon, a '90s Boston band.

  • @gmaclachlan9 thanks so much :)

  • @klc9909 then get the fuck out

  • @MyersV200 arnt u a bad boy... and btw justin bieber gets 600 000 views every week and his videos are crap : )

  • This stuff is so played out.. did that stuff like 5 years earlier, just didn't filmed it you know.. I really did it for myself not to show anybody how cool I am..

    OKAY SHIT I CANT HANDLE IT, IT'S TOO SICK DUDEEE

  • hes a crazy man.

  • I have done this wire walk before....... on my wii fit system.

  • What's the song?

  • @PhilTheKilll "High Wire" by Smackmelon. I want the lyrics. If anyone has them, post a link.

  • When i think of the world trade center and all thoese people i think about what Phillipe Petit did and when he look down on new york city in 1974 i think about four guys in forest hills and queens who whould later be know as the ramones.

  • He is crazy!!!

  • Hey I think I'm gonna go do this...OH WAIT.

  • @mehtaalihkuh lol, he will the only human to ever do this

  • AWEEEEEEEESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • hes not going to ohh he did

  • Fucking french nutter. 9/11/2001 never forget

  • Jesus on a rope!

  • 9/11 is remembered

  • Like the hell your gonna see me do that shit....

  • awesome

  • anybody else think the pic at 1:45 is a bit ironic ?

  • @j03hill16 so true so true!!! :)

  • @j03hill16, planes over new york are pretty normal. us military had enough time to search the air for another plane and to take it down just before it got on land and crashed into the second tower!

  • anybody else think the pic at 1.45 is a bit ironic ?

  • Questo video è su Reset Italia.net

    Arriva l' 11 settembre e minaccia e vive nel vuoto e non è colpa mia se nessuno ricorda...

    Grazie!

    Doriana Goracci

  • Like a boss!

  • sick bastards askin if thats the plane that hit the tower have some fucking respect so many innocent people lost their lives just remember that. R.I.P

  • WATCH OUT FOR THE TWO PLANES !!

  • @ScottishCaledonian so not funny

  • 55 people fell off the tightrope

  • 1:44 plane that hit the twin towers???

  • @SuperABCkiller123 hahhah thats exactly what i was thinking XD :P

  • @lilnicky492 r u insane?! WTF thats like saying ohh haha id laugh if hitler came back to life and raped and knifed every jew alive.

    jackass

  • Yahoo sent me here :)

  • Lets see Chirs Angel "float" that high

  • @ 1:46 theres something eerily familiar about that picture and i cant remember why. hmmm.

  • You spelled his name wrong.It's Philippe Petit.

    Nice video btw

  • @SteveOwen01 I do too. It's hard to believe they're really gone. It seems weird to see pictures of the towers in the NYC skyline and such and go to the city and not see them there. I was only 6 when the attacks happened, but I remember it like it was yesterday.

  • 1:44 ironic.

  • @MrCoops420 lol

  • -it's safer than working there, right?

    -how in the world did they get that pole up there?

    -if he falls will his friends be accomplices?

    -it's called man on wire but he's on a tight rope?

    This is a great film by the way. He and his "team" had to sneak everything up there and it was extremely difficult. He spent a couple hours on the tightrope and cops and everyone couldn't do a thing to stop him until he stepped back onto the roof. What's sad is he was so high up that folks could barely see!

  • @wheelmanstan its called man on wire because he used a cable wire

  • orelero translation,idiot

  • what if he falls ??

  • @orelero the video would go viral

  • R.I.P W.T.C

  • At 0:05 that is exactly a year befor my mom was born... Wow.

  • @isworeintoroyalty how old are you?

  • @isworeintoroyalty you must be young!

  • Wow crazy, imagine if a plane would have drove by!

  • HE IS FUCKING PSYCHO

  • @HRH900 this was 1974 soo yes that person is dead your dumb

  • @AwesomeWhaleNinja He's alive at the age of 61 right now...

  • @AwesomeWhaleNinja haha, actually "YOU'RE" dumb. Herp DERP.

  • @AwesomeWhaleNinja He just did a one man stage show at American Theatre here last month.

  • @AwesomeWhaleNinja if this was in 1974 how does that mean hes dead your dumb, there are still ww1 veterans alive - YOU ARE STUPID

  • @6996hh stfu whats LOL about it you inbreed fuck?

  • man if they had go pro cameras when this happen it would be awesome

  • Bloody Hell, just looking at that 1st picture makes me feel dizzy. This fella must have some giant brass balls.

  • This would have been hilarious if he did this walk on the morning of September 11th 2001 LOL

  • @lilnicky492 OH HELL YEAH THAT WOULD BE FUNNY AS HELL! CAUSE MILLIONS OF AMERICANS WERE KILLED THAT PART OF TIME! YEAH!!!! FUCKSTICK

  • @k2skater319 i just feel i shud say it wasnt millions

  • @senorme1 u know what i fucking mean, millions were affected is what i should have said

  • @lilnicky492 Yeah. Hilarious. Twat.

  • @lilnicky492 Shut up you psycho do you realize 2,900 people were killed that day.

  • @minamu8 Yes so what? But you don't think it would be funny? Just imagine it he's walking on a tight rope between the two buildings and then all of a sudden he sees an airplane flying right at him I crack up just thinking about it LOL

  • @minamu8 millions die in africa every day fuck the wtc what about them?

  • who says that this is 'fake' or 'hoax', should simply recall the columns on news paper of that day, the doc 'man on wire', and the book 'let the great world spin' di colum maccann........welcome to the era of internet....where people talk and talk and isn't able to look for a simple information like this...

    great phelippe

  • there's a great documentary about this whole thing. it's called "Man on Wire". Check it out!

  • @schazers1 i saw it these people were so crazy!!!

  • @schazers1 I've watched it, it's crazy. The months of planning and the development of it was scary enough, then he performed the greatest stunt of all time - 8 times! Petit makes me proud to be human.

  • @schazers1

    Holy crap

  • Another good video ruined by crappy sounds you call music. Lose the noise and you've got something.

  • The guy got arrested for doing this. Wonder why he did it?

  • @matrixfan127 I hear you get arrested for not saying the pledge of allegiance in your own home each morning at 0600 sharp nowadays.

  • That takes a lot of balls to do what that bloke did!

    That photograph at 1:43 is very eerie!!!

  • imagine if he did that on 9-11

  • looks fake

  • thats crazy. what if the wind blew and got him?

  • did this guy have any srt of saftey harness or parachute

  • @shomosnicholas5

    nope. he says that when he took his first step he was sure he was going to die but couldn't resist

  • I would shit my pants

  • FAKE

  • @SiameseChemise wtf fake it's fcking true it's a documentary who won an oscar you moron

  • @ptitgro2 no its proven its a fake, sorry

  • @SiameseChemise why you keep saying it's false you idiot. my god your a truly moron. write his name on google. just on wikipedia we can read this Philippe Petit (born 13 August 1949 in Nemours, Seine-et-Marne) is a French high wire artist who gained fame for his high-wire walk between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City on 7 August 1974.

  • @ptitgro2 Sorry, I'm not a sheep like you. It's well documented that this was a hoax.

  • what if 9/11 happend whilst he was doing tht lol

  • They could have never gotten away with this after the security changes from 9/11

  • Watch out, there's a plane coming behind you.

  • How come this band or song isn't on youtube... I cant find anything by smackmelon

  • @A135S4656 The terrorists do not hate this building, they hate the American government because they wanna be the ruler of the whole world! God bless all the 9/11 victims! I think the Twin Tower's belong to new york! They live there and they die there, but i wish they would rebuild ,as they would do with the White house or even the empire state building!

  • Thank you! i loved the Twin Towers, the had a special charm of the 70! I'll never forget this Buildings, this was a big part of new york!

  • OMG!!!!! INCREDIBLE!!!

  • REmi's dad

  • man my hands just sweat watching these still pics, and my asscheecks need to be pried open with a crowbar after watching this.

  • HNNGGGG

  • Please excuse my French but...What a Fucking Nutter...

  • @torpid2 french? 

  • that was amazing, i bet nobody will ever be able to do that again :-)

  • that was aamzing, i bet nobody will ever be able to do that again :-)

  • And some people say we're not related to monkeys.

  • 1:46 Lol

  • gota be a french guy for doing this!

  • I wish the towers never collapsed so he could look back at them and say "hey i walked through those two towers... yes that high up" WOW

  • They should re-build the towers. they were destoryed by the bad people because they represented freedom, joy, business, finance, fun, tourism, amazement, etc., and what they hate is what we love.

    So NOT re-building them is like saying that we hate our freedom, joy, buisness, finance, fun, tourism, and amazement of being 107 stories in the air, etc.

  • @A135S4656 not to be too harsh, but that's a completely uneducated look at the situation. Two sides to every coin...

  • @A135S4656 Ummm they've already started construction on the freedom tower which is going to replace them.

  • @merchin0made0easy Well there's going to be 7 new towers, but I still think that at least SOMEWHERE they should re-build these towers. Chicago, Louisiana, LA, Las Vegas, I don't care as long as they're still in America. 90% of people want those same old twin towers re-built, but even if they don't, sometime in life I am going to these new towers, I'd like try and go into everything they have in each of those towers, especially if they have free wifi.

  • @A135S4656 LOL Free Wi-fi

  • not an inspiration (for me) but still larger than life

  • Man On a Wire - Netflix it. It'll make your toes curl. Crazy and amazing man!

  • @1:42 Kinda spooky that a jet plane is caught in that picture. Who knew what would happen 27 years into the future in 1974?

  • Hahaha rest in peace

  • Rest in Peace

  • @beejayrotten He's not dead LOL

  • @HRH900

    How old is he now?

  • @sega31098 I believe he is 63

  • @TellUNoww All there is are pictures.

  • @ksimm81 Me too.

  • im with the balls in a museum, this is just nuts_-_

  • @Devaprakash777 "High Wire" by Smackmelon

  • @gmaclachlan9 what an appropriate song lol

  • That guys balls should be in a museum. 

  • @bryanswafford

    :))))))))))

  • You should see the DVD "MAN on WIRE" about this! Discovery Films Directed by James Marsh. It is amazing how Philippe Petit planned and did it in 1974! Amazing!

  • @fiat300pct Saw it, loved it. Even though I knew what was going to happen heat was in throat.

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  • @conewells What was the point of the black / white comment? Race doesn't have to figure into everything.

  • @RoneciDesade Why are you asking me? I never made such a comment.

  • @RoneciDesade oops. Yep. It was there. Just kidding. I removed it, lol.

  • picture at 1:40 is eery

  • That's one way to make the headlines

  • this make`s me shakey abit looking how high he is fucking hell

  • What song is this? Anyone know?

  • @lukeyboy123able ....I'm wondering who this music is as well. Did you find out?

  • did they have photo shop back then lol

  • The stunt began to wind down once the NYPD warned that a helicopter was going to come pick him off the wires... you have to think that that should have been nothing more than a threat... if a chopper did come the winds would have surely sent Philippe to his death.. and if not that, even the slightest movement while hovering would have led to the same fate.

  • I heard there's some guy going to do this next month.

  • @sean91LFC thats impossible cuz the twin towers dont exist anymore .. :/ cuz of the terrorism attack,

    he is lucky he got that experience, & lucky it was at the twin towers! that were distroyed along time agoo , & he got that awesome vieww ;D luckyy & courageous

    but its sad cuz that reminds me of the disasterr :/

  • @IsabelDisneyChannel hang on, terrorism isn't funny anymore? fuck, nobody told me, i've been walking around everywhere holding a "9/11 WAS THE MY GREATEST ACHIEVEMENT" sign...sorry about that.