Conelius goes high high up.

[Slyer]

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10595175
Naughty cones!

[Danae]

Lol!!

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[Hiflyer]

Haha saw that from work on shortland street, we were all like WTF!? what I wanna know is how that got up there. Maybe a helicopter?

[R6_kid]

Haha saw that from work on shortland street, we were all like WTF!? what I wanna know is how that got up there. Maybe a helicopter?

If anyone had climbed around the outside of the radio antennas when they were on they now have cancer.

[motorbyclist]

If anyone piloted a helicopter close enough to the tower to mount a cone they've probably been fined and/or had their licence suspended

[R6_kid]

If anyone piloted a helicopter close enough to the tower to mount a cone they've probably been fined and/or had their licence suspended

Nah mate, if they have clearance to approach then it's not a problem... and according to that article Sky City/Sky Tower agreed to the placement of the cone.

I'm just wondering how the hell you get it up their inconspicuously.!

[ital916]

Nah mate, if they have clearance to approach then it's not a problem... and according to that article Sky City/Sky Tower agreed to the placement of the cone.

I'm just wondering how the hell you get it up their inconspicuously.!

It's not that difficult guys! The answer is obvious!

NINJAS did it!

[Danae]

Well you have to have some way to get up there for maintenance reasons, right? I reckon the Sky Tower peeps scheduled this at the same time as said maintenance (probably in the early hours)

[Danae]

NINJAS did it!

Yeah I bet it was Sam! And now he is reporting success on behalf of the ninjas

[Real_Wolf]

Sorry Danae, the only time their allowed maintenance on them is like from 3am to 3:04 am.

Literally

Theres a window of less than 5 minutes for any maintenance they have to do, other than that they can only shut off half the antennaes to get up there.

So I doubt that they climbed up to put it there

[Danae]

Sorry Danae, the only time their allowed maintenance on them is like from 3am to 3:04 am.

Literally

Theres a window of less than 5 minutes for any maintenance they have to do, other than that they can only shut off half the antennaes to get up there.

So I doubt that they climbed up to put it there

nono, the sky tower was involved, they said so. so they may have got the maintenance guy to stick it up there

or it was like the guy's last day so he stuck it up there for lulz

[GSXR Trace]

so that ad of someone going up with some "V rocket pack" is probably bull... but bloody funny! wish i had seen it up there!

[Danae]

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So it had something to do with V...this video is a fake but pretty lulzy anyway. I think V worked with the skytower to get it up there.

And here's their site where they've coned a whole lot of random shit, like islands.

http://www.vrepublic.co.nz/gallery.aspx?Section=Coning!

[vifferman]

Dunno 'bout it being fake - it's now a V ad on TV. Plus whehn I said , "Aw,, that's oviously a fake - they used a crane or summat!", my Mutant Spawn were quite adamant it was real - they saw the guy with the jet pack playing around on it in Victoria Park or somewhere in town.

[Danae]

Dunno 'bout it being fake - it's now a V ad on TV. Plus whehn I said , "Aw,, that's oviously a fake - they used a crane or summat!", my Mutant Spawn were quite adamant it was real - they saw the guy with the jet pack playing around on it in Victoria Park or somewhere in town.

Ya, the jet pack is real, I reckon they did the opening shots etc wherever they were in the ad, then faked the actual putting the cone on the sky tower bit. There's no way he could get up there in the space of ten seconds.

Great ad tho, wish I saw the cone irl XD

[GSXR Trace]

yeah thats the ad i was talking about!
i thought it was fake, but I guess anythings possible!

[Real_Wolf]

:P, I doubt the force those cannisters can put out would be significant enough to lift him that much, let alone without running out of their forced propulsion rather quickly.

On another note, someone in NZ has only recently (this year) finished developing an actual jetpack, and its taken him like 10 years, so I doubt that their one would work.

Still, fairly entertaining, if they hadn't made him appear at the sky tower almost instantly after travelling in the wrong direction it might have been more believable

[motorbyclist]

that isn't actually a jetpack - it's more like a single seater twin prop helicopter...

the problem with jet/rocket packs is that they generally burn your legs....

EDIT: and it's astounded me that it took him a decade when he had funding and employees working on it too.

[yungatart]

Now that is a step back in time!
When I was just a young teenage lassie, some guy was going all out to impress me...every Sunday he would ring me and regale me with his latest escapades which were intended, no doubt, to send me rushing into his arms! (Didn't work BTW)
Sure enough in Monday's paper would appear the photograhic evidence. In those days, traffic cones had not been invented. It was 44 gallon drums atop the highest buildings in town complete with their blinking lights attached. He carried it on for months and even ended up with a sort of cult status, before he realised, alas, I was not interested.
It was goood for my ego though!

[GSXR Trace]

Of course you would correct me andrew! close a-bloody-enough if you ask me! but still looks pretty cool!

[motorbyclist]

Of course you would correct me andrew! close a-bloody-enough if you ask me! but still looks pretty cool!

what, no i was correcting wade

that "jetpack" has always annoyed me since this retarded thing i saw about it on 20/20 or other such retarded show on tv

[Danae]

doesn't matter, it makes him fly so is therefore awesome

[Slyer]

Jetpack renders your argument invalid.

[Ixion]

It is indeed to do with V. And I may say that the celebrations when they got it up there were quite spirited.

And : serious fact - it was indeed Conelious who prompted the idea of the road cone on the Sky Tower. I wanted them to add angry eyebrows, but that didn't get traction.

And you don't want to know how much the little exercise cost!

[Real_Wolf]

you sure it wasn't a jetpack? I just remember reading an article about it, but was a while ago and was doingi t while waiting for something somewhere, so wasn't paying too much attention.

[motorbyclist]

everyone is calling it a jetpack but the propulsion is by propellor (by my understanding), to avoid aforementioned leg incineration

[Danae]

It also kind of looks like two giant fire extinguishers

[PirateJafa]

T'was magic.

[GSXR Trace]

ok, so old news that this is fake, but i just re-saw it on tv... when the guy is coming back down the cone is NOT on top of the skytower!

[Squiggles]

Its fully real, your eyes are just playing tricks....

[motorbyclist]

you can tell by the pixels