In a message dated 11/12/2003 6:40:53 PM Eastern Standard Time, [log in to unmask] writes: heard a story today about a prominent terra cotta building in NYC where the UNION crew was supposed to be pinning back the terra cotta. Instead what one rigging crew did was place mannequins on the scaffolding rig and then lower them three floors per day. This went on for a month with shift crews so that there would be three floors of actual pinning and three floors without. Who knows where? The word in the union is to stay away from that particular elevation of that building. Gee, that story sounds familiar, Ken. Thank God WE had nothing to do with it, and Chrif can torture somebody other than us. Ralph