This thread bring back an old memory. In 1970 I was working on a brand new very tall bucket truck while in the USAF. This truck was designed to reach above the T tail of the C-5A aircraft. (13+ stories) I had the bucket out at max extension and max height when one of my smart a** coworkers flipped the selector switch (located on the ground control panel) from areal to ground and flipped me off and walked away. There I was over 100' up ,no controls,stuck for three hours. My boss's manager saw me up there, got mad and ordered me to come down. He could not understand or hear me well enough to know why I could not do so. Finally he broughtr me down using the ground controls. 39 degrees and 25 mph winds. After explaining what happened he calmed down but had to stop me from going after said coworker.
