Bridgers Beware

[Canary42]

Those glass bridges so popular in China are safe aren't they ?.

Cross at your peril.

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/tourist-china-receiving-counselling-scare-054826601.html

I'm not surprised the victim needed psychological counselling - lucky he's alive.

[woofgang]

I suspect the outcome would have been the same regardless of what the panels were made from

[New Judge]

What the victim really needed rather than psychological counselling was a few lessons in the bleeding obvious. Among the lessons might me that it is unwise to venture onto such a structure when there are 100mph winds blowing.

[wolf63]

I would still be up there and totally terrified to move.

We have a walkway next to the railway line going across the river. Many moons ago, at silly o'clock in the morning, my dog (9 stone of solid mutt) and I were walking across when he glanced down and saw the river between the slats. He slammed on his brakes and refused to move. He was shaking and whining. I am not sure how we managed to retrace our steps and get back to solid ground, but we did and he refused to go near the bridge after that.

[woofgang]

not sure what its like now but at Tintagel Castle in the 70's there used to be one way over to the castle over a causeway and one way back over a narrow suspended wooden bridge. We went there on our honeymoon. I was in my 20's, I honestly did not know that I had any kind of vertigo until I set foot on the bridge to walk back. The bridge moved a bit and I froze completely holding up everybody behind me. DH had to get in front of me and walk backwards to get me over the bridge! oddly a year later, I walked over the Capilano Suspension Bridge without turning a hair.