Tourists are left screaming in terror after a brand new glass-bottom walkway CRACKS under their feet

[MiniMe]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/peoplesdaily/article-3261778/Tourists-left-screaming-terror-brand-new-glass-bottom-walkway-cracks-feet-3-540-feet-high-China.html

A group of Chinese tourists were left screaming in terror yesterday on the side of a 3,540 ft high cliff after a glass pane on a new transparent walkway suddenly shattered.

A visitor posted pictures of what she claimed was the cracked glass on Chinese social media. She said she could feel the shake under her feet the moment when the glass broke, reported People's Daily Online.

The U-shaped platform is attached to a cliff face on Yuntai Mountain, Henan Province, and opened to the public on September 20. Authorities have confirmed the incident and closed the tourist attraction for repair works.








I think I would have a hard time walking that bridge!

[arcane1]

1. I'd have a hard time because I'd be killing the people who made me do it.

[Rex]

2. Wow. I think I peed a little just by looking at that!

No WAY could I walk out onto that! Just...no.

[MiniMe]

5. If I tried it, which I never would,

I think I would leave a brown stain on the glass if it cracked under my feet

[shenmue]

15. Me neither

[JI7]

3. wasn't it in China also where there was an accident on an escalator recently

the mother ended up falling in and dying but was able to save her child . there were some people waiting at the top which seemed to suggest they knew of a problem but still allowed people to go on.

[Liberal_in_LA]

4. Scary to just look at

[betsuni]

6. I just saw a story about a glass bridge on the news this morning.

I don't know if it was in the same area, it went across a ravine and was very high up. The glass didn't seem very thick and I thought, nope, this is asking for big trouble. I almost peed in my pants just looking at it.

[Journeyman]

7. Melamine in dog food, fungus infected drywall, air you can't see through, water you can walk on. . .

no horror story about China and its non-existent regulations is too absurd anymore, no nightmare of shoddy workmanship or criminal cost-cutting measures too wild to be discounted. Hard to take that country seriously or be satisfied with its quality controls. I'd step gingerly walking on Chinese sidewalks, let alone a glass "trap door" 2/3 of a mile up.

[KentuckyWoman]

12. Well to be fair

Just those affecting me and mine......

December 19, 2008
ATLANTA — One construction worker was killed and 18 others were injured Friday when an elevated pedestrian walkway they were building collapsed at the Atlanta Botanical Garden.

Fourteen of those hurt were hospitalized, eight of them in serious or critical condition at Grady Memorial Hospital. Their injuries included fractures and head and spinal damage.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/20/us/20collapse.html

My sister was on another part of this walkway when it collapsed and was not injured physically.

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2009 Peanut Butter Outbreak: Three Years On, Still No Resolution for Some

When Shirley Almer’s grown children describe their mother’s death just days before Christmas Day 2008, they say that the lively 72-year-old grandmother beat cancer twice, but she couldn’t beat peanut butter.

Clifford Tousignant’s family tells a similar story. The decorated Korean War veteran and devoted great grandfather fell ill from Salmonella in his peanut butter sandwiches around the same time. After struggling against the infection for weeks, he died in January 2009 at the age of 78, a year and a half short of his goal to outlive his father.

Almer and Tousignant were two of the nine victims who died in the 2008-2009 Salmonella peanut butter outbreak that sickened at least 714 Americans across 46 states. The outbreak, one of the deadliest and widespread in U.S. history, resulted in recalls of 3,913 different products made by 361 companies. It captured national attention and even attracted commentary from President Barack Obama, who said parents shouldn’t have to worry about their children’s peanut butter, something his daughter Sasha ate for lunch “probably three times a week.”

http://www.foodsafetynews.com/2012/04/2009-peanut-butter-outbreak-three-years-on-still-no-resolution-for-some/#.VhSi6uxVhHw

I was in the hospital in Lexington for 27 days because of this.

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Not to mention our own FDA is in cahoots with big Pharm to fleece the American public.

China is bad... very bad....... but we aren't too good at it either.

[Journeyman]

13. Touché . . .

I stand chastened and corrected.

Thank you for the reminders.

[lpbk2713]

8. Good luck in getting anyone to go back to that place.

They can provide all the assurances in the world but I doubt if anyone
in their right mind will want to try it out once they say it is "safe".

[C Moon]

17. It'll be like Jaws, when the mayor tells the politicians to take their families back in the water.

[ohnoyoudidnt]

9. So they are standing on a pane of glass over a cliff taking pictures

of the other pane of glass that cracked beneath them. That doesn't sound like what someone screaming in terror or even slightly concerned about their safety would do.

[Gloria]

10. Makes me more unlikely to get on that big thing hanging over the

Grand Canyon.....big pilings in the side of the canyon keep the thing up...what if the canyon side sudden gave way? I mean, if there is any kind of shift or earthquake, I sure wouldn't trust that thing at all...
They make visitors wear little booties over their shoes to avoid scratching....no booties in China!

[msongs]

11. no extra charge for the thrills. great ride eh nt

[Spirochete]

14. No way I'd ever get out on that.

I have a major phobia of heights as it is.

[C Moon]

16. I was wondering (but hoping they'd made 100% sure it wouldn't) if this would happen.

Scary stuff.

[SoapBox]

18. Uhhhh...

None of that for me thank you.

[Duckfan]

19. I had an offer to ride in a hot-air balloon the other day.

I said "no thank you". I have important stuff to do on the ground.