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Chicagoans vs. Falling Icicles: A History
The Chicago skyline is gorgeous to look at, but in the winter it rains down icy fingers of death upon the populace.
It's everyone's worst winter fear: You're outside grabbing a coffee, when you happen to look up and... Bam! Icicle through the eye.
OK, so getting facially impaled by an ice spear is an extremely improbable event. Yet it looms large enough in the American psyche to appear in at least two Hollywood films. (Freeze, Col. Stuart!) Expand the target to the whole body, and there's Sly Stallone benchpressing a baddie through an icicle in Cliffhanger and Sandra Oh getting one in the kidney in Grey's Anatomy.