After several failed attempts to unscrew the bolt on the handrail, the spacewalkers ended up tearing it off with brute force.

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Brendan, a junior at the University of Connecticut, sat perched on the double bars of the handrail on the stairs at the top of the park.

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The current line runs across the beach from the promenade handrail next to the leisure centre car park.

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While the crewmen sat in the galley eating meat stew with fistfuls of ugali, a maize porridge, the passengers congregated along a handrail overlooking the action.

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Suspended outside the shuttle Atlantis more than 500km above Earth, the astronauts were delayed by a handrail blocking a cover held by 111 tiny screws that had to be undone.

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On Sunday, mission specialists Michael Massimino and Michael Good had to contend with a handrail blocking their access to the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS), resorting in the end to tearing it off with brute force.

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