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AP reporter’s terrifying trip on 1,000-foot-high glass slide

Saturday, 25 June 2016, 1:15 MJA Uncategorized 15

LOS ANGELES (AP) — I’ve jumped out of a plane from 13,000 feet. I’ve ridden 400-foot-tall roller coasters that top speeds of 100 mph, and I once found myself using my fingernails to clutch the side of a rock face way too steep to climb without gear.

Heights have never fazed me. Until the Skyslide, a terrifying glass tube on the outside of the U.S. Bank Tower in downtown Los Angeles. It’s open to the public Saturday, and journalists were given an early chance to try it out.

Perched 1,000 feet above the ground on the side of the tallest skyscraper west of the Mississippi, the 360-degree glass slide is utterly terrifying. It’s is nearly a straight shot down, except for a small turn at the beginning that causes riders to bump against the side of the glass, much to their horror.  more

15 Comments on AP reporter’s terrifying trip on 1,000-foot-high glass slide

  3. Best time to ride is during earthquake season.

    And … , forgive me, but if you are stupid enough to live in that shithole, you really should buy a ticket.

  4. From the way the writer started his piece, I thought the slide would go all the way down-it’s a 5 second ride, big deal.

    Are they really building a 100 story skyscraper in SanFran? That seems to be asking for trouble.

  6. All the US trade deficit dollars are coming back, being spent by foreign owners who want to build iconic skyscrapers, buying 10s of thousands of acres of farm land, manufacturing, food industry, transportation and anything of value that hasn’t already moved overseas.
    The US used to be a proud industrial Nation with a growing, employed middle class. Now, as a debtor nation, we buy all our “stuff” from China, Mexico and other cheap labor nations.

  8. I see what that presstitute did there. He conflated “1000 feet high” with “1000 feet long”. Stoopid terrified sissy milktoast spineless propagandists are coming out of the woodwork in droves and herds now. Thanks for nothing, Gash Cuntzman.
    Whatever happened to being a MAN, a WOMAN, an ADULT, facing one’s fears, living the experience, and telling a rational tale (it was an adrenaline rush!), instead of a childish emotion laden drama??

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