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    Bos'un's Mate: That sound you heard was my cremaster snapping. more »
    ♥AntiSocialSocialite♥: looks awesome! i'm going to be downtown tomorrow for The Taste - definitely going to The Ledge. more »
    HiredGoons: *runs screaming for the hills more »
    El Matardillo: I wonder how many blows of the hammer it would take to crack the glass? more »
    Uncle_Billy_Slumming: Rorschach test be damned it's a news anchor (forget his name) getting a hand job from Ruth Gordon, in heaven. more »
    ithabeleng metesunyane: I met a nice man in New York who told me he lives in the Sears Tower. But I thought he was teasing me. Is that really a residential building? more »
    Smitros: In Europe that view would be called the Royale . . . more »
    noonecaresowen: The dork in me wonders if you have to sign some sort of form to clear them in case anything happens. more »
    Perhaps Not: Neato! You should do more Chris Van Allsburg-related stories, Richard. I would read all of them, even the ones about the movie version of "Zathura." "... more »
    BadUncle: 103 floors up and the view is the same from my fourth floor window. Doesn't it not rain somewhere? more »
    Gnip-Gnop: What would happen if you jumped up and down in there once or twice? more »
    VoxPopuli: That is my idea of a torture chamber. Almost as bad as that walk over the Grand Canyon glass bridge. My palms sweat just thinking about that. Also, gr... more »
    contradicto: You would never get me up there. more »
  • #picoftheday

    The Quarter Mile

    [Two visitors stand, looking like something out of a Chris Van Allsburg book, in the new Ledge observation deck, which juts out of the 103rd story of Chicago's Sears Tower. That's 1,353 feet up. Image via Getty]