It鈥檚 not a day at the London Olympics without the city鈥檚 mayor, Boris Johnson, doing or saying something charmingly absurd. On its face, it is ridiculous for the mayor of a major city hosting the Olympics to get caught on a zipline at a rally during the Games鈥攂ut less so when it鈥檚 Boris Johnson. And yes, that did . The “Mayor of the World,” which he basically is for the next few weeks, slid down a zipline鈥攚hile wearing a hard hat, dressed in a suit, waving two Union Jack flags鈥攁t an event in Victoria Park in the East End of London earlier today, but the apparatus got stuck halfway down the line, and Johnson was left hanging, helplessly, 20 feet above the onlooking crowd. Thankfully, after a few minutes, he was pulled down the remainder of the line by the operating crew and brought back to ground safely.
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