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100 Things I Learned from MAN ON A LEDGE


1. Lobster and french fries make a fine last meal.

2. You can break into a high security vault and then hold a high profile realtor at gun point without going to jail even for one day.

3. Protesting homeless men have got your back.

4. A huge wire going into your ear that you consistently talk into is invisible to suicide negotiators.

Keep them coming!

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5. When a guy pushes you out of the room and locks you out, just pound on the door for a few minutes before finally deciding to shoot the lock or break the door down.

6. An incredibly high-tech, multi-million-dollar security system with cameras, heat sensors, seismic sensors, etc. can all be disabled at once by cutting a single wire.

7. Instead of putting your $40 million diamond back in the safe that requires facial recognition, fingerprint scan, and a security code to open, just stick it in your pocket.

8. An escaped convict with a 25-year sentence can simply accuse a very powerful and connected real estate mogul of framing him and the guy will be arrested on the spot (by cops who have no idea whether it's true or not).

9. A fire extinguisher works great for tricking heat sensors.

10. To prove you were framed for the crime you were convicted of, you should actually commit the crime. You'll face no consequences.

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11 holdin da diamond in ur hand meanz u didnt commit da crime

12 nypd female copz r very hot

13 nypd female copz dont wear braz in their apt

14 new millenium movie rule #1: da blk guy is alwayz innocent

15 after jumpin off a very tall buildin and landin directly on a very small raft, u can continue chasin da guy like nuttin happened

16 ny ppl r a sadistic bunch

17 its very clear dat worthington squandered da moula his mum gave him 4 actin lessonz

18 wat better way 2 prove ur innocence by makin ur family accomplicez 2 another crime

I live, I love, I slay, and I'm content

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12 and 13, especially when they are demonstrated so ably by elizabeth banks can make up for many, many mistakes.

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11-18a: Some people think typing a post on a message board is the same thing as sending a text. It isn't. They're called whole words...use them.

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1000. If you don't want anyone to read your post, type like a pimply 13 year old on Snapchat.

I don't love her.. She kicked me in the face!!

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lol...l8r homey po

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One thing I learned from your post is that you need to stay in school. Or, go back to school. It's really hard to read.

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Skool sux

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Not as bad as illiteracy.

I don't love her.. She kicked me in the face!!

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Illiteramacy is a cruel mistress

Werd 2 ur mudda, bruddafckka

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Zzzzzzzzzzzzz........

I don't love her.. She kicked me in the face!!

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Sopormorific boooooooooooooooooooooolsht

Werd 2 ur mudda, bruddafckka

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I don't love her.. She kicked me in the face!!

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BUH-BUH BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLLLLSht

Werd 2 ur mudda, bruddafckka

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La La Lame.

I don't love her.. She kicked me in the face!!

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Sez da guy who still live wid his mum

Werd 2 ur mudda, bruddafckka

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I have no idea what you said.

I don't love her.. She kicked me in the face!!

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19. They hired Edward Burns to be in the movie and to be absolutely and completely useless and irrelevant.

20. They hired William Sadler to play an irrelevant Hotel staff member? seriously? As if a seasoned B-actor is supposed to play that of an insignificant role in the movie. Hire an unknown actor instead so that we do not await them to do something significant towards the end of the movie.

21. Sam Worthington is pretty worthless as an actor.

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There is no god,deal with it & grow up.
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22. Sam Worthington looks hot even in a mullet.

23. Prisons put ex-cops in general population.

24. Ex-cops in prison don't get shanked, only beaten up.

25. Ed Harris has aged poorly and looks like a creature from Clash of the Titans.

26. Billy Elliot has a very hot girlfriend.

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23. If you escape from prison,just punch your accomplice a couple times, they'll never suspect him of anything, even if he's your brother.

24. People from new jersey hit like a girl.

25. If you are going to pretend to attempt suicide, bring lots of cash, it may come in handy

26. It's pretty easy to elicit a reaction from New Yorkers if you are standing on a ledge

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Office buildings keep mattresses on the roof just in case anyone needs to muffle an explosion

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haha To be fair they could of placed it there a few hours before or day before!

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(I think since some were numbered the same twice)

32-- A cop can get sent to prison for 25 years, then after a couple of years he can escape-- but no officers responding to the scene recognize him.

BTW this was an entertaining movie, despite it's ludicrous storytelling/ poor writing.

J:"You still eating?" K:"I'm still hungry."
T:"You should lay off those candy bars."

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33. If you're an ex-cop in prison you get to go jogging in the prison yard at night.

34. If you're the supervisor of the NYPD Emergency Services Unit and you have an escaped convict cornered on a roof you can simply tell the other officers to go away you'll handle it and they will, then you can get into a shootout with the convict and other officers, though midtown Manhatten has been completely shut down and everyone in the city is watching and there are news helicopters around no one will see the shootout happen. And when you're that ESU supervisor and get shot no one will question it.

35.Up to this point in your life the only crimes you've ever committed are breaking into houses to watch tv and try on clothes but if you wear Victoria Secret underwear under your skin tight rubber suit you're able to break into a multi layered security system.

36. Multi layered security systems that have every kind of backup system available (well, except for the cliche laser beams) will have a ventilation system that is not secure and vents large enough to crawl through and this is the point in your life you learn you're a little clostophobic.

37. Bellhops in NYC are very intuitive, even though they had delivered a lobster dinner to someone earlier, when that person is threatening to jump off a ledge bellhops know they might be hungry and they will personally hand deliver a meal to the jumper, even at a controlled police scene.

38. You can set off a bomb in midtown Manhatten that kicks up dust and debris and no one will really notice, well maybe someone will give it a cursory glance.

39. If you have to you can run fast on a ten inch ledge 21 stories up, even leaping at the corners because you need to get to that window.

40. When you're in prison you have the time and resources to extensively research police suicide negotiators.

41. When you're a suicide negotiator the detective in charge of a scene will personally go and get you coffee.

42. Its good to have a bit of a nicotine habit, you never know when you'll need to share a smoke with someone so you can get a DNA sample.

43. The wisest person in the neighborhood is always an old lady, because she knows whoever caused the crowds and traffic problems "should all be shot".

44. When breaking into security systems red pin lights are not a good idea, it makes all the wires look red and the red one is the one you'll need to cut.

45. New York cops will give up chasing fleeing ex-cop convicts once they bust through the back gate of a cemetery.

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^ I concur.

47. Putting your fingerprints everywhere and admitting a crime you're committing to the person you're committing it to does not faze Jamie Bell or his girlfriend.

48. Sam Worthington really does look amazing in this movie, dare I say it: better than in the ___ of the Titans series.












'Where the f-- are my HARD BOILED EGGS?!'
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXa_kOGxOkg

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50. Elizabeth Banks is NOT that good of an actress..but hopefully a panty scene at the beginning of the film will help you forget.


"When Im Good, Im very Good. But When Im Bad Im better." -Mae West

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51. It's easy to fake someone's death
52. Kyra Sedgwick isn't Hispanic, even if you try to give her a Hispanic name
53. New York TV will interrupt regular programming for continual coverage of a potential suicide jumper

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LOL you are spot on with this one. Not one cop knows who this guy is? Even when they showed his face on TV only his partner recognized him

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56. Homeless guys love to tackle gun-weilding police officers.

57. If you just raise ur arm up everyone will know your innocent.

58. Hot women dropping $40 million dollar dimonds in whiskey and then sucking on it is sexy.

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- When planning to pull off a grand heist plan which will entail scaling walls &
acrobatic stunts be sure to pack my Victoria Secret Push up Bra & BIG Hoop Earrings .

- An ex cop can leap & crawl the outside of buildings like Spiderman himself -____-

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67. Elizabeth Banks has pokey nipples when she first gets up.

I'm getting the word 'Nonce'

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Number... whatever) News crews can determine a diamond is the exact one you were accused of stealing simply by waving it about in the air in front of them while you are being tackled by police.

number... whatever +1) A crowd will chant for you to jump until you scream you are innicent at them and then they will all be on your side.




"Peace was never an option..."

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68. Wear long dangly hoop earrings when you have to scale buildings, blow up things and fit in tight crawl spaces to help steall a diamond.

69. Cops find it normal that a man on a ledge needs something to eat even though he had a huge lobster and champagne breakfast





"the only way through it is through it " -Jackson Browne

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70. You can fake your father's death, organize his funeral with a priest and be released from jail because prison directors will trust any kind of paper sent to them.

71. Said father, who's a bartender, will have absolutely no friends who will wish to attend his funeral and only his two sons, his future stepdaughter, a cop and his next wife will be there.

71. Your father can be a bar owner and be employed as a valet at the Roosevelt hotel at the same time so that his working hours match perfectly your clever plan.

72. Crowds in NYC are basically dull and can yell the most stupid things at a suicidal man.

73. Being accepted as innocent by the police, the detention system and all other parties involved will only take 1 hour after your plan is finished.

74. When a rich businessman and his cop-accomplice want to get rid of a dangerous eye witness, they just need to threat to push him from the top of a roof in Manhattan, ignoring the people who might watch from the windows opposite.

75. Placing a picture just in front of a surveillance camera will make guards believe there's nothing wrong.

76. Escaping from a fake funeral after a fake fight with your brother when you're chased by theree police cars is quite easy because you'll turn out to cross a railway just when a train is coming to stop the police and allow you to flee after a spectacular car crash.

77. Finding the diamond in the vault is supposed to prove you didn't steal it. The police are also supposed to believe that you did find it in the vault and not that you brought it from home. The perfect plan to prove your innocence is to break into your accuser's building and steal the diamond from him. Then everybody will believe you and the accuser will just accept to go to jail despite all his connexions with the police and the mayor...
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The higher you fly, the faster you fall.

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76 - A. The police are chasing you, a speeding train violently hits your car and sends it 30 ft. into the air. The police then just end the chase even though the subject is on foot, probably injured** and less than 100 yards away with no where to go.

Contrast this with the detective (Tommy Lee Jones) in "The Fugitive" which shut down whole counties.

**footnote... it is a movie so you might come away from a 30' in the air crash without your hair being mussed up.

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79. After yakking for hours on a ledge with a negotiator, once on the ground you can ignore her questions and just say "follow me……to a bar"
80. If your hot girlfriend is undressing in front of you, it doesn't matter that your brother's future is on the line, you're in middle of a robbery and that you've seen her like this before; you stop what you're doing and ogle her
81. There's no such thing as too many gratuitous cleavage shots
82. Bomb schematics in your prison cell will only be discovered after you escape
83. Brothers don't always pull their punches
84. Cops regularly disobey their superiors
85. You can wave a $40M dollar diamond to a crowd of New Yorkers and nobody will try to take it

Trying is the first step towards failure

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86. Not only do you need to change from your skin tight tank top and jeans into a skin tight body suit to crawl through an air vent, you need to take time to change BACK into your jeans and tank top to continue the jewel heist, all with cleavage carefully arranged.

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87) No Diamond found - No crime - He should have walked.

Reparations for Vietnam Vets
Righteous Robert
Baltimore Bob

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88) The Main character doesnt need a backstory.
89) Latino's are hawt
90) You can pull a gun on a trained SWAT team member and he will not try to disarm you or use hand to hand combat

Insert @V@T@R

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91) All fire extinguishers are apparently filled with liquid nitrogen.

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92) feel free to place a photo in front of a securtiy camera, noone will be watching when you do it

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