Chicago Skydeck on 103rd floor begins to crack under family

Fox News ^ | May 29, 2014

[Olog-hai]

A California family visiting the Willis Tower in Chicago said they heard the glass flooring on its 103^rd floor Skydeck begin to crack Wednesday night while they were taking in views of the city.

A spokesman from the building said the sound came from the coating on the glass and the family was never in danger, The Chicago Sun-Times reported.

“Occasionally this happens, but that’s because we designed it this way,” he told the paper. “Whatever happened last night is a result of the protective coating doing what it’s designed to.” …

[cripplecreek]

“Occasionally this happens, but that’s because we designed it this way,”

LOL Kinda like Obamacare.

[Dick Bachert]

Technicians plan to more fully inspect the structure as soon as building maintenance cleans up the 3” deep layer of human fecal matter.

[BeadCounter]

Toronto has it where one can be directly over the Bluejays diamond baseball field. That is something, you are hundreds or thousands of feet above it.

[MtnClimber]

Did the Chris Christie family visit at this time?

[JRandomFreeper]

Yep. I would have contributed.

I very nearly got killed in a 5' fall, and spent 2 weeks in ICU. I'm not big on heights anymore.

/johnny

[SkyDancer]

And they immediately hit the nearest Target for new underwear.

[WorkingClassFilth]

Ri-i-i-i-ight. Take a look at the photos and you’ll see the familiar cracking pattern of safety glass just before it blows out. These folks were lucky, lucky, lucky.

[luvbach1]

Designed to crack, oh that sounds likely.

[353FMG]

If it would’ve happened to me, they would have had to send a cleaning crew.

[Joe 6-pack]

Wonder if it's from the same glass company that did the Grand Canyon skywalk...

[goodwithagun]

No but Huckabee’s family did.

[Dilbert San Diego]

Why would the glass be designed to crack? Doesn’t it make sense to think that the cracking so high up will scare people witless????? Because visitors to the building won’t think it’s supposed to crack under their feet.

[Talisker]

It’s double or triple pane. The only one that cracked was the top pane. Probably by design, over a period of time.

Of course, in collapsing buidings there’s something known as “pancaking”...

...but nah, that can’t happen with panes of glass...

[EQAndyBuzz]

Wonder who the vendor is that has that contract.

[Flick Lives]

“For the love of God, I thought tourists could fly!”

[GeronL]

Let’s find out, said the owl...

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The balconies are suspended 1,353 feet above the ground and jut out 4 feet from the building. They're actually more like boxes than balconies, with transparent walls, floor and ceiling.

I have absolutely no desire to stand on a tiny piece of glass 1353 feet above splat level.

Is that wrong?

[max americana]

It gets worse if we find out it’s made in China.

[bigbob]

I would have soiled my raiment to be sure