Originally published at: Watch: Two lucky women are swinging near a cliff when it breaks and sends them over the edge. | Boing Boing
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jeebus fracking christ on a cracker, my heart jumped up into my throat. glad they are ok!
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Nooooppppeeeee.
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What the flying-off-a-mountain-flock did the guy think was going to happen by swinging them sideways into the stand/support structure?!?
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Russian thrill rides: to be avoided in any form.
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Thrill rides in general, sez I. You never know when something’s going to snap or break.
Anyway, I have much safer ways of getting thrills.
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I think my anticipation from the title made it worse.
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I see some engineering flaws there. Glad everyone is OK…
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I’m getting my thrills in much safer ways, right now!
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10 Minutes later.
“Whew. Luckily everything landed on a platform below. We almost lost a perfectly good swing!”
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Hello! 
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Roger that!
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It doesn’t look like anything snapped, rather the swing started a side to side movement as well as back and forth and the seat edge caught the support pole. Bad design in general, the top pole should either be longer to keep the supports further out from the center, or even better, replace the chains with poles to lock the movement to strictly one axis. But then the point of the swing is to be death-defying, so mitigating risk was probably not the builder’s priority.
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These are the kinds of things I point to when I hear “we don’t need the stickin’ government regulation”. Yes, we kind of do.
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I rode the ski-lift from the Volga river to the top of the hill in Moscow. I’m guessing that the snow and ice hide the amount of rust on it during winter because during summer, not the most calm & zen ride. I suspect the ice also freezes the metal joints more solid to keep it ridged and safe.
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Now if you put one of these next to a high cliff…
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It was harrowing watching each push–WHEN WILL IT FALL!!!
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Read you 5 x 5.
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