Just because you can do something, doesn’t necessarily mean you should.
1960s songbird Joan Baez is “resting comfortably” at an undisclosed location after falling 20 feet to the ground from a treehouse — a treehouse she purposely had built without walls because she wanted to sleep among real birds at her Woodside, Calif., home.
I assume the Press Democrat has an editor.
Does the story imply Joan Baez wanted to “sleep among real birds” because she had a problem sleeping amongst fake ones?
She could have prevented her fall by preemptively strapping herself down. Oh well, some people require the service of others in order to keep themselves safe.
I think a “house” is classified as having walls and a roof, even tree houses…
Nicolas, different zoning for tree houses. A platform will do.
What a birdbrain! She just found out that flapping her “wings” ain’t gonna negate 9.8 m/sec (32 ft/sec for all you non-metric weenies)…
Gravity happens!
Igor
Igor, she wanted to believe.
Fly, Littlebird, Fly….
WHUMP
“ow”
Too much progressive Kool-aide. She began to believe being called a bird brain was a compliment. And she thought if she took her body to be among the birds, her thoughts would become even more lofty and clearer. And while dreaming the most progressive of thoughts, she sleep-flew airily from her nest. If only lofty thoughts could provide wings.
If she’d had an electric guitar, the cord could’ve broken her fall. Go electric, Joan! Go electric! Although . . . . . the tree probably didn’t a plug-in.
Oops! ” . . . . . probably didn’t have a plug-in.”
No walls? Okaaay…how about, oh I don’t know…a 2-foot railing?