Tourist falls 4000 feet off SkyWalk

https://news.yahoo.com/33-old-man-fell-4-201303631.html

Terrifying. I've been on it and it is not comfortable. I can't imagine the trip down.

I was there in 1989 and I don't remember it.

Is it something put in recently?

Did he fall or did he jump?

Looks like he jumped.
It's a long way down.

Casey Jones wrote:I was there in 1989 and I don't remember it.

Is it something put in recently?

Did he fall or did he jump?

I can't remember. Either around 94 or 2005.

HawkTheSlayer wrote:Looks like he jumped.
It's a long way down.

The side rails are not all that high or safe in my opinion.

Railings won't stop the determined. Nor should they be expected to.

I was gonna post, they should just catch someone who accidentally comes up against them...but I forgot. We live in BLM Woketard Amerika. It's perfectly natural to have some Pantifa punk come and just throw someone over the railing.

Maybe it wasn't such a good idea in this age. Features like this, like self-serve grocery stores, like roads that anyone can use...don't work in a world of violent crazies and governments that are determined that they run riot.

4000 feet is over a half mile down.

I was touring the Space Needle one time and it's only a few hundred feet up.
That was plenty enough to get the job done. Lol.

People in NYC push unsuspecting people onto the tracks for no good reason. You think Arizona isn't as crazy? You'd have to be insane to pick something that height with that long a wait to the end..... what? they think they can have a change of mind before they reach the bottom?

Arizona wasn't as crazy.

Not when I was there, 1989. Not Arizona, not Montana, not Colorado. All of which I drove through...in my Yugo. (No lie, that.)

It was a real eye-opener. Of course, if I'd known the crazy-train was unstoppable, and the whole world would be as loud and rude and stupid as Cleveland's Hough Avenue or Chicago's South Side...I'd probably have jumped off the canyon bank even without that futuristic walkway.

here's an interesting headline.

https://www.10news.com/man-dies-after-falling-off-grand-canyon-skywalk?dicbo=v2-3PNzKe6

Man dies after falling off Grand Canyon sywalk....like it was a surprise to the reporter. and it says he fell....a selfie gone wrong? or is the police department still confused over what happened.