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  • On this episode of China Uncensored, people who walk on glass bridges shouldn't throw

  • stones... or mugs.

  • Hi, welcome to China Uncensored, I'm your host Chris Chappell. You know, many great

  • feats of man have been brought low by the simplest of things.

  • The mighty walls of Helms Deepdestroyed by a single orc.

  • The proud Death Starannihilated by a single space wizard.

  • And the mighty Samuel L Jackson

  • Now, everyone knows that 'made in China' and 'quality' go hand in hand, in the same way

  • that 'one more drink' and 'good decisions' do. That's why tourists felt confident in

  • the safety of this glass walk way, built thirty-five hundred feet in the air along China's Yuntai

  • Mountain Scenic Spot.

  • I mean, wouldn't you walk on it? It even got the approval of Chinese officials, known for

  • their trustworthiness, who told people it was exceptionally safe. It was after all three

  • quarters of an inch thick and treated to resist not just bending, but shattering as well.

  • So what could go wrong?!

  • Well, apparently it shattered.

  • But only a little bit according to park officials who admitted to finding "a small amount of

  • cracks." Or a terrifying amount, according to a female tourist who said on social media

  • that there was a loud bang and everybody was screaming. The social media post has been

  • removed. So really, who knows?

  • But one thing's clear: She posted this photo of it on Weibo...which is really unclear.

  • So no one is quite sure exactly how much this very, very high up glass bridge cracked after

  • less than a month of being open to the public.

  • But how could engineers have foreseen the cataclysmic event that would humble their

  • efforts? According to the People's Daily Online, one of the tourists dropped a stainless steel

  • mug on it. How can you plan for that?! Next you'll be telling me the Titanic should have

  • had more lifeboats on deck "just in case." As if you could predict the sinking of an

  • unsinkable ship.

  • And anyway this kind of thing happens all the time, the Chinese park management reassured

  • people. Back in 2014, a glass beer bottle shattered one layer of glass on the walkway

  • at London's Tower Bridge... Which to be fair, I wouldn't be walking on in the first place,

  • given the notorious reputation for London bridges falling down, falling down.

  • The bridge in Yuntai Mountain has been closed for now. But soon they'll open it back up

  • to the public again. Do you think you'll be visiting? It's a great view! Let me know in

  • the comments below. Once again I'm Chris Chappell, see you next time.

  • Ah! Great shoot, guys! Well done! (Boom)

  • If after watching that, you still want to walk on the Yuntai Mountain glass bridge,

  • then you might be the kind of person who would also participate in the most dangerous boat

  • race in the world. Check it out on Seeker Daily.

  • You see this? That’s China building its first homemade aircraft carrier,

  • called the Type 001A.

On this episode of China Uncensored, people who walk on glass bridges shouldn't throw

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