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Scariest thing in Queenstown, New Zealand

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(@holy-cow)
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www.youtube.com/embed/Ze68s47-xO4

This claims to be the world's highest swing. It might be. Gives me the willies just watching these young ladies. Pretty sure my shorts might change color in midair. Perhaps this would be a cure for those fellows with an undescended testicle.

Right at seven minutes if you watch the whole thing. The first couple of minutes are hooking up the paying customers. I can't imagine being the worker standing in front of them much of the time.

I have watched something a bit similar at Royal Gorge in Colorado.

I think this is safe for work. If they said any bad words, I didn't understand them.

 
Posted : March 19, 2015 4:38 am
(@bruce-small)
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Oh, goodness. I'm not particularly afraid of heights, but just watching them getting hooked into the harness gave me the willies.

 
Posted : March 19, 2015 6:20 am
(@paden-cash)
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..no, no, nooooooooooooooooooo,....NO!

Man, talk about screamin' like a little girl. I could hit G seven octaves above middle C...easy.

'fraid it would've been all over it they had me strapped in that thing. They would haul back up an unconscious 200 pound limp (and dehydrated) mess of mankind if I did that. Not for me, thank you.

PS - From 5:58 to about 6:08 there is some critter down on the trail below them. My first thought was dog, but it doesn't move like a dog. Any thoughts?

 
Posted : March 19, 2015 8:14 am
(@jimcox)
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It's probably a goat

 
Posted : March 19, 2015 9:08 am
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What I saw was moving in the opposite direction and at the same rate as the camera panning. I think it's a speck of dirt on the glass cover of the box that the camera is in.

 
Posted : March 19, 2015 10:53 am
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I was thinking that it might have been a gnat on the camera lense.

 
Posted : March 19, 2015 12:30 pm