January 13, 2009

Man saved after dangling from flagpole  01/13/09 12:01 AM

Paul Reed figures it just wasn’t his time to die. Not that he didn’t think otherwise yesterday. “I ain’t gonna make it” was his first thought in the seconds after a rope-and-board seat slipped from beneath him, leaving him dangling 75 feet above the ground and grasping for a grip with his legs and arms on an oil-slick flagpole.

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