Wednesday, June 18, 2008

If you drop a penny from the Empire State Building it actually never makes it to the ground.


That penny actually ends up on an outcrop about 20 feet down, where you can't see it, and an old lady named Gladys cleans it off ever other day. So your dreams of either running to the sidewalk below and finding a faceless penny OR running to the sidewalk and finding that you have inadvertantly killed a pedestrian with a penny are both now shattered. Leave it to me to be the level-headed one. Also, according to MythBusters, neither of those things happen even if you can get it past the outcrop 20 feet below. If it does hit someone in the head, it just leaves a mark and really pisses them off.

3 comments:

kathy w. said...

Thanks! Now that I know that, I feel smarter today.

Mike and Lauren said...

You are seriously hilarious. I love you so much!

Dan said...

Darn...that was one thing i always wanted to do before i died....grrr...i guess i'll have to settle with dropping a penny from the lincoln memorial or something.