.... terrifying trip on 1,000-foot-high glass slide

[jakeXT]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — I've jumped out of a plane from 13,000 feet. I've ridden 400-foot-tall roller coasters that top speeds of 100 mph, and I once found myself using my fingernails to clutch the side of a rock face way too steep to climb without gear.

Heights have never fazed me. Until the Skyslide, a terrifying glass tube on the outside of the U.S. Bank Tower in downtown Los Angeles. It's open to the public Saturday, and journalists were given an early chance to try it out.

Perched 1,000 feet above the ground on the side of the tallest skyscraper west of the Mississippi, the 360-degree glass slide is utterly terrifying. It's is nearly a straight shot down, except for a small turn at the beginning that causes riders to bump against the side of the glass, much to their horror.

I tried not to pay attention to the screams from other people riding the slide as I waited in what seemed like an interminable line. I tried not to think about the fact that just 1¼ inches separated me from a 1,000-foot drop.
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[Renew Deal]

1. I once went to the CN Tower in Toronto

It has a glass floor. Little kids were jumping up and down on it. I walked across, but it was very high up...

[Aristus]

2. I did that, too.

I was on a trip there with my brother. The safety notation posted by the glass floor stated that it could support a weight equivalent to 15 hippopotamusses. We both laughed and imagined some animal wranglers perching hippos on the floor. When it collapses after 16 hippos, sending the poor animals to their doom, the engineers calmly note down on their clipboards: "Fifteen. Okay, fifteen."

The posted assurance did nothing to suppress the butterflies I felt while walking across that thing...

[dixiegrrrrl]

3. I must be honest

and say if forced to do that, there would be a trail of .......something.....all the way down.

At some point in my adult life, I developed severe discomfort about heights.

[Duppers]

4. Would not do.

Especially at my age....Even though I skydived when I was 29.

[trueblue2007]

5. I WOULD NOT DO IT

[denbot]

6. I'm doing it as soon as I get home..

Though 1.25" of glass seems somewhat thin..

[sakabatou]

7. NOPENOPENOPENOPENOPE