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Jared Cooper was having an ordinary day cleaning windows in Alabama—until it wasn’t.
While tidying up the RSA Tower, Cooper found himself hanging more than 450 feet in the air after his equipment malfunctioned.
It was Cooper’s first time cleaning this massive tower, representing the Squeegee Squad.
“I had a feeling something was going to happen last night, so I wasn’t too sure,” Cooper recalls.
Cooper’s reaction to the terrifying event? Pure calm.
“It’s a 50-50 shot. … So, it was going to lock or not, and when it locked, I was like, well, here we go. Just another day. Should have seen it coming.”
A Quick Call to Mom
While dangling in mid-air, Cooper’s first thought was to call his mother.
Because, why not?
Charlotte Hopkins, his mother, described the surreal phone call: “He calls me a lot from work, and he said, ‘Hey, mom, I’m stuck here on the ledge, just hanging out, waiting to see if they can get me down.'”