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Glass walkway shatters above abyss, terrifying tourists
Topic Started: Oct 7 2015, 06:31 PM (88 Views)
Sum Ting Wong
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Yep, this idea was stellar.

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A pane of glass shattered on a see-through walkway wrapping around a 3,540-foot-high cliff face, causing thrill-seeking Chinese tourists to scream in terror.

Officials insisted the visitors on the platform were in no danger when the glass cracked on Monday, apparently due to someone dropping a stainless steel mug, according to the People's Daily Online. A spokesman at Yuntai Mountain Scenic Spot said only one out of the three layers of glass broke.

Maybe so, but according to the Daily Mail, a tourist who's known by her internet screen name "lidonghaishuohezainihaowodehai" gave an account on Weibo, the Chinese version of Twitter, that would freeze any acrophobe's blood:

"[I've] just witnessed history. The glass-bottomed walkway on Yuntai Mountain just cracked. When I was about to reach the end [of the passage], I heard a sudden bang and felt a shake under my feet.

"I looked down and saw the glass floor beneath me shattered. [I have] no idea why it happened, at that moment everybody was screaming.

"I yelled out loud 'It cracked, it really cracked!', then pushed the people in front of me to leave. [I was] terrified."
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Amazing they would allow people out on that thing with objects hard and heavy enough to shatter the glass. But then it's China. The officials there couldn't possibly care any less if the whole thing fell taking hundreds to their deaths. That many fewer for the state to have to deal with.
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Tybee
Oct 7 2015, 06:37 PM
Amazing they would allow people out on that thing with objects hard and heavy enough to shatter the glass. But then it's China. The officials there couldn't possibly care any less if the whole thing fell taking hundreds to their deaths. That many fewer for the state to have to deal with.
Exactly. There's no way I would go on that platform.
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Erna
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What's a few hundred out of zillions of gooks?
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Mrs Patrick Campbell
Oct 8 2015, 02:01 AM
What's a few hundred out of zillions of gooks?
I'm not sure why a large group of people even went out on that platform to begin with?

Or was it more like this...
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