Because it's very fragile and may break. That's why it's dangerous and illeagal.
The Statue of Liberty stairs are spiralling inside the body and the arm.
The arm of The Statue of Liberty was displayed in Madison Square Park in 1876 to raise money for the statue's pedestal. Her actual name is "Liberty Enlightening the World".
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The Statue of Liberty's right arm and torch stood in Manhattan's Madison Square for about ten years prior to the dedication of the Statue on Liberty Island. (see: http://www.answers.com/topic/statue-of-liberty)
The arm was displayed in a Philadelphia exhibition marking.
The arm was displayed in a Philadelphia exhibition marking.
There's a long, narrow ladder inside the arm that maintenance people can climb to perform this and other maintenance functions on the torch.
The statue of Liberty has a width of 17 feet (5.3 m) at the gallery windows, 10 feet (3m) at the upper face and 35 feet (10m) at the waist.
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A forty-foot-high section of the right arm, with the hand clasping the torch of liberty, was sent to the United States and displayed at the 1876 Philadelphia exhibition marking the one-hundredth birthday of the United States.
On the statue of liberty, Miss Liberty is carrying the torch in her right hand.