Skybridge to Tomorrow

Would you walk out on this bridge?

  • Heck Yeah!!!!!! That's awesome!

    Votes: 9 34.6%
  • Sure, why not.

    Votes: 1 3.8%
  • Maybe. I'll think about it.

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • No thanks, I'll pass.

    Votes: 2 7.7%
  • No F'ing Way!!!!! That's some scary stuff.

    Votes: 14 53.8%

  • Total voters
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thethinker42

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That looks awesome!!! And without the wind blasting in your face like it does when you skydive (which admittedly wasn't THAT bad, but it did make it kinda hard to breathe for the first minute or two).
 

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I'm thinking "bridge" is the wrong word for this, since it only connects to air.

It doesn't look as if it's part of the landscape or is otherwise pleasing to the eye. The blurb makes no sense.

I smell a tourist rip-off. Sure, go ahead, walk out there, enjoy the view, it's free! What, you want to come back in? Two hundred bucks, white eyes!

-Derek
 

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I'm not sure what the "western canyon" fee thing is, but it's $25 to spend all day at this place, or till you get vertigo.

I'd say No Frickin' Way...........knowing my luck.......I'd walk onto the skybridge, skywalk? catwalk? and as soon as my fat ass is halfway down, it does a Hollywood crash.

The metal starts creaking and screetching. Then snaps, and smacks the cliff side. I slide, catch my shorts on some post. I'm hanging there dangling as the whole slides down, down, dooooooooooowwwwwwwwwwn to the canyon floor. I'm screaming like a nancyboy the whole time and my stupid digital camera is jammed "on" and pointing at my face.............some recuse worker finds it and posts the pics on the net and ABC shows 'em.

No thanks. I'll pass.
 

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Are you allowed to fish off that thing? It would require extra line and a long landing net, but it looks like there might be some nice trout down below.
 

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I'd do it. I visited the GC six years ago, and would love to go again. It's an amazing sight, and no picture can ever do it justice. Someone everyone needs to see for themselves.
 

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I'd pee off of it. Kind of a marking your territory thing.
 

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I was out there last year when they were building it. It certainly adds some draw to the reservation without a honking big casino.
 

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Absolutely not. No way. You couldn't pay me. I don't mind heights, as long as there's something solid under me. That thing.... I just don't see how it stays where it is! I'll walk right up to the edge of the ground and look down. But go out on that thing? Uh-uh...
 
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*shiver* no way. soooo scared of heights...
 

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Oh, dear sweet Jeebus Crisp, my knees buckle and my stomach churns just looking at that thing.

/me goes to lie down
 

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So.........if Parkinsonsd stands on the edge and whizzes over the edge, and someone drops a penny, which'll reach the canyon bottom first?

Parkinsonsd who slips 'cause all the winds are blowing the piss around 'is feet making it slippery and over the side he goes...........or the penny?

And..............will Thinker be able to get the before and after picture snapped in time?
 

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How frickin' tacky. It completely ruins the landscape. I'm not saying I wouldn't walk on it...it doesn't scare me or anything but it looks stupid.

I didn't see that option on the poll though...