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Location: On a big hill, Australia
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Location: On a big hill, Australia
Posted:
I had a few drinks the other night and accidently let one of my poi go
, it flew through the air....and hooked in a tree 
now i only have one 
any ideas how to get poi from tree without injuring myself 
I had a few drinks the other night and accidently let one of my poi go
, it flew through the air....and hooked in a tree now i only have one any ideas how to get poi from tree without injuring myself Seize The Carp
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Location: Melbourne, ZZ9 Plural Z Alpha, Australia
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Location: Melbourne, ZZ9 Plural Z Alpha, Australia
Posted:
throw balls at it
throw the other poi at it
throw balls at it
throw the other poi at it
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Location: Utrecht, The Netherlands
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Location: Utrecht, The Netherlands
Posted:
Maybe if you could provide us with a picture of said tree & poi we could be of more assistance? For now though, have one of these:
I'm very sorry for your loss of poi!
Maybe if you could provide us with a picture of said tree & poi we could be of more assistance? For now though, have one of these:
I'm very sorry for your loss of poi!
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Location: london, United Kingdom
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Posted:
erm have you thought of using a ladder
erm have you thought of using a ladder
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Location: without class distinction, Australia
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Location: without class distinction, Australia
Posted:
Step 1: Go to Thailand.
Step 2: Poach a monkey
Step 3: smuggle it home.
Step 4: train it
Step 5: Make it get your poi out of the tree
Step 6: consider other possibilities where a trained monkey would be useful!
Step 1: Go to Thailand.
Step 2: Poach a monkey
Step 3: smuggle it home.
Step 4: train it
Step 5: Make it get your poi out of the tree
Step 6: consider other possibilities where a trained monkey would be useful!
i would have changed ***** to phallus, and claire to petey Petey
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Location: london, United Kingdom
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Posted:
wow i want a trained monkey im only 5ft3 it could get me all the things i cant reach
wow i want a trained monkey im only 5ft3 it could get me all the things i cant reach
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Location: On a big hill, Australia
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Posted:
Monkey definatley sounds like fun, will look into
Monkey definatley sounds like fun, will look into
Seize The Carp
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Location: Southern California, USA
Posted:
You could try climbing the tree? Perhaps you are not able to climb that high though, in which case I would suggest standing on someone's shoulders (Preferably a friend's) or someone standing on your shoulders to obtain it.
You could stand on a chair.
You could use a lasso
You could hire those people who come and cut down trees and then their whole 20-person family comes and sits on your street all day to watch.
You could buy a new set of poi.
okay I'm done
You could try climbing the tree? Perhaps you are not able to climb that high though, in which case I would suggest standing on someone's shoulders (Preferably a friend's) or someone standing on your shoulders to obtain it.
You could stand on a chair.
You could use a lasso
You could hire those people who come and cut down trees and then their whole 20-person family comes and sits on your street all day to watch.
You could buy a new set of poi.
okay I'm done
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Carpal \'Tunnel
7,193 posts
Location: in the trees
7,193 posts
Location: in the trees
Posted:
an axe, an axe 
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Gromit's Humble Squire
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Location: Brisbane, Australia
Gromit's Humble Squire
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Location: Brisbane, Australia
Posted:
Noone's mentioned a whip yet? I've seen poi rescued with stockwhips on several occasions..
Noone's mentioned a whip yet? I've seen poi rescued with stockwhips on several occasions..
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Location: Arana Hills, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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Location: Arana Hills, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Posted:
We throw shoes when the frisbee we use at uni gets stuck in the tree...ahhh the memories....one day one of the girls came along saw three of us just standing there in socks and looking up at a frizbee, one hacky sack, 6 shoes, and a banananana...
She just looked at our socks, looked at us looking up wistfully at our shoes and just went "tree:8 uni students: zero" and automatically started taking her own shoes off...
Ahhh the good times (all shoes,hackysacks and banananana's were recoverd before the next lecture)
We did learn from this...cause i seem to remember lifting my friend Jess above my head by her legs (not and easy feat) next time to save us the embarressment of standing around in our socks...
But i'm assume its a bit too high for human towers...and that you like ur shoes...
I'd prolly just figure out a way to climb it...or get ur hands on a cherry Picker...
We throw shoes when the frisbee we use at uni gets stuck in the tree...ahhh the memories....one day one of the girls came along saw three of us just standing there in socks and looking up at a frizbee, one hacky sack, 6 shoes, and a banananana...
She just looked at our socks, looked at us looking up wistfully at our shoes and just went "tree:8 uni students: zero" and automatically started taking her own shoes off...
Ahhh the good times (all shoes,hackysacks and banananana's were recoverd before the next lecture)
We did learn from this...cause i seem to remember lifting my friend Jess above my head by her legs (not and easy feat) next time to save us the embarressment of standing around in our socks...
But i'm assume its a bit too high for human towers...and that you like ur shoes...
I'd prolly just figure out a way to climb it...or get ur hands on a cherry Picker...
Carpal \'Tunnel
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Location: in the trees
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Location: in the trees
Posted:
personally i would climb the damd tree, being a scaffolder for nearly 5/6 years i don't worry about hieghts and having done indoor and outdoor rock clinmbing and absieling the fear factor is low
personally i would climb the damd tree, being a scaffolder for nearly 5/6 years i don't worry about hieghts and having done indoor and outdoor rock clinmbing and absieling the fear factor is low
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Location: over yonder, New Zealand
lurking like a ninja with no camouflage..
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Location: over yonder, New Zealand
Posted:
yeah climb the tree!!
or construct an elaborate pulley system to lift yourself up with..
yeah climb the tree!!
or construct an elaborate pulley system to lift yourself up with..
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Location: semaphore, south australia
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Location: semaphore, south australia
Posted:
ok.
try this.
eat some cous cous.
thats all.
ok.
try this.
eat some cous cous.
thats all.
no mummy, please dont make me go to millyways again.
i hate the way it all ends!
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Location: Cardiff/edinburgh
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Posted:
eat lots and lots of cous cous till you get very very large, then have someone drop you from a great hight, in theory, you should bounce, judge the angle right and you could bounce up just high enough to get your other poi, then you can poi lots and lose all the extra weight put on by eating all the cous cous. Problem solved.
eat lots and lots of cous cous till you get very very large, then have someone drop you from a great hight, in theory, you should bounce, judge the angle right and you could bounce up just high enough to get your other poi, then you can poi lots and lose all the extra weight put on by eating all the cous cous. Problem solved.
Its a big ol mish mash!
Carpal \'Tunnel
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Location: in the trees
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Posted:
pahhhhhhhhh..................... cous cous................. what you need is cheese cake
pahhhhhhhhh..................... cous cous................. what you need is cheese cake
Pooh-Bah
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Location: Bristol
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Location: Bristol
Posted:
ooh ooh! i know!
buy a trampoline...fun and poi retrieval all in one
ooh ooh! i know!
buy a trampoline...fun and poi retrieval all in one
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Location: Nashville, TN, USA
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Posted:
did "tree wrap" ever make it to the "definitive" list?
did "tree wrap" ever make it to the "definitive" list?
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sneaky little kitty
251 posts
Location: Missouri, USA
sneaky little kitty
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Location: Missouri, USA
Posted:
did someone say cheesecake?
i agree with the whip theory, or the monkey. either way, could you get video of it?
good luck, if i'm not back in 15 minutes, just wait longer!
did someone say cheesecake?
i agree with the whip theory, or the monkey. either way, could you get video of it?
good luck, if i'm not back in 15 minutes, just wait longer!
you want the truth? you can't handle the truth!
mmmmm...cheesecake
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Location: ashland OR
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Location: ashland OR
Posted:
You could thank your lucky stars it wasnt lit on fire, I like these ideas: train a monkey, or bribe a street person to climb the tree.
You could thank your lucky stars it wasnt lit on fire, I like these ideas: train a monkey, or bribe a street person to climb the tree.
dont make peoples heads turn, give them whiplash.
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Posted:
I was a bit concerned about the poached monkey...
I was thinking poached like how you do eggs( boiled, yuk!), and wondering how that could possibily help one?
Have spent much fun time at this endeavor ! We found using heavy snaky rope with a weight tied securely on the end, to throw up into the tree, snag the object or the branch it was on, and then jiggle it down worked well.
But personally, I think the monkey option would be much more entertaining. You could of course get new poi whilst in thailand, teach the moneky tricks, and make millions travelling asia as a performance troupe...
I was a bit concerned about the poached monkey...
I was thinking poached like how you do eggs( boiled, yuk!), and wondering how that could possibily help one?Have spent much fun time at this endeavor ! We found using heavy snaky rope with a weight tied securely on the end, to throw up into the tree, snag the object or the branch it was on, and then jiggle it down worked well.
But personally, I think the monkey option would be much more entertaining. You could of course get new poi whilst in thailand, teach the moneky tricks, and make millions travelling asia as a performance troupe...
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Location: On a big hill, Australia
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Posted:
Sooo im thinking
i go to thailand, get a monkey and some new poi, peform as a monkey/fire guy 
duet, eventually bring it home, buy a trapolene , some cous cous, and cheesecake. Then get the monkey fat and bouncin till it gets my poi bak......Yaaaa thats awesome!!!!! 
Sooo im thinking
i go to thailand, get a monkey and some new poi, peform as a monkey/fire guy duet, eventually bring it home, buy a trapolene , some cous cous, and cheesecake. Then get the monkey fat and bouncin till it gets my poi bak......Yaaaa thats awesome!!!!! Seize The Carp
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Posted:
throw the other one at it, either have both or neither
throw the other one at it, either have both or neither
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Carpal \'Tunnel
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Posted:
you could.......................... pay me money to come down and scaffold up to your poi
or get an incredibly long poking stick and poke your poi so it falls into your hand, or hits you on the head
you could.......................... pay me money to come down and scaffold up to your poi
or get an incredibly long poking stick and poke your poi so it falls into your hand, or hits you on the head
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Location: Berkshire, UK
artisan
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Location: Berkshire, UK
Posted:
or u could hire the service of a tree lover....
I come into that list somewhere.... I tend to get stuck in em too tho out of fascination....
picture this-
curiosity climbs said tree
'ooo poi... OOOOO TREE!!!.... OOOOOOO MAGIC'
*James ponders the situation*
'nope not coming down, MY TREE! have ur poi'
*whoosh poi flies down*
*James realises he has a new neighbour*
or u could hire the service of a tree lover....
I come into that list somewhere.... I tend to get stuck in em too tho out of fascination....
picture this-
curiosity climbs said tree
'ooo poi... OOOOO TREE!!!.... OOOOOOO MAGIC'
*James ponders the situation*
'nope not coming down, MY TREE! have ur poi'
*whoosh poi flies down*
*James realises he has a new neighbour*
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Posted:
Ha!
this actually happened to me on halloween. My friends were throwing a haunted forest thing in their back forty and they asked me to be at the end of it spinning fire in a devil costume. I was spinning in a small clearing and i was nervous cuz it was the first time i had spun in front of people i knew and it was the first time i had spun sober(mmmm...intoxicants make me flowy). so anyway, about a minute in i f*ed up and one poi shot 20 feet up and got stuck in a pine tree. fortunately the trunk was only about 5 inches and the tree had a good lean to it so we were able to shake the poi out. Then 2 minutes later i'm trying to spin them fast to extinquish the burn and one of my chains broke, shooting the poi head 30 feet into a brushpile...all in all quite the disastrous burn.
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You could thank your lucky stars it wasnt lit on fire, I like these ideas: train a monkey, or bribe a street person to climb the tree.
Ha!
this actually happened to me on halloween. My friends were throwing a haunted forest thing in their back forty and they asked me to be at the end of it spinning fire in a devil costume. I was spinning in a small clearing and i was nervous cuz it was the first time i had spun in front of people i knew and it was the first time i had spun sober(mmmm...intoxicants make me flowy). so anyway, about a minute in i f*ed up and one poi shot 20 feet up and got stuck in a pine tree. fortunately the trunk was only about 5 inches and the tree had a good lean to it so we were able to shake the poi out. Then 2 minutes later i'm trying to spin them fast to extinquish the burn and one of my chains broke, shooting the poi head 30 feet into a brushpile...all in all quite the disastrous burn.
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Posted:
Yeah thats bout how it happened, when i was spinning it real fast to put it out i accidently let go, so it was out real lucky i didnt set anything on fire coz i was in the bush....lots of stuff to set on fire!
Yeah thats bout how it happened, when i was spinning it real fast to put it out i accidently let go, so it was out real lucky i didnt set anything on fire coz i was in the bush....lots of stuff to set on fire!
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Carpal \'Tunnel
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Location: in the trees
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Location: in the trees
Posted:
i've been spinning fire at a rave in a foresty block (being carefull as hell as i know how well a pine forrest go's up) the police where closing in, the tunes where getting good and the sun was coming up.
the police wanted the party to stop (as usual) and even used sneeky tactics to shut the rig down, lucky someone passed the word round to swarm the rig and generators so the cops couldn't get near. i think i'm even on police video hugging a police woman
i even asked the police if they minded if i spun some fire poi and was told " as long as you don't spin near the cars"
nice one for babylon
after that i packed my poi away and went to stack for the next 4 hours
i've been spinning fire at a rave in a foresty block (being carefull as hell as i know how well a pine forrest go's up) the police where closing in, the tunes where getting good and the sun was coming up.
the police wanted the party to stop (as usual) and even used sneeky tactics to shut the rig down, lucky someone passed the word round to swarm the rig and generators so the cops couldn't get near. i think i'm even on police video hugging a police woman
i even asked the police if they minded if i spun some fire poi and was told " as long as you don't spin near the cars"
nice one for babylon
after that i packed my poi away and went to stack for the next 4 hours
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old hand
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Location: Darkest Bedford., United Kingdom
old hand
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Location: Darkest Bedford., United Kingdom
Posted:
Maybe a trained koala?
Maybe a trained koala?
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Carpal \'Tunnel
7,193 posts
Location: in the trees
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Location: in the trees
Posted:
just get a sound systenm sorted, place it next to the tree and send out the word your having an all night party (rave).
if the tree's in the middle of the stack then all the people moshing will knock your poi out of the tree
(all you have to do is fetch your lost poi from the stack)
just get a sound systenm sorted, place it next to the tree and send out the word your having an all night party (rave).
if the tree's in the middle of the stack then all the people moshing will knock your poi out of the tree
(all you have to do is fetch your lost poi from the stack)
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