Posted on 04/21/2017 4:38:16 PM PDT by simpson96
April 21 (UPI) -- A 63-year-old woman in China needed to be rescued by firefighters when locking herself out of her apartment led to an ill-fated attempt to rappel to a window.
Video recorded at the scene Wednesday in Liuzhou shows the woman, identified as Jia, clinging to some rope she borrowed from a local construction site while a firefighter is lowered to where she is dangling.
The firefighter helps the woman climb back up to enter the window of her apartment.
Jia told police she was locked out of her apartment when a gust of wind slammed her door and she didn't have money for a locksmith, so she borrowed the ropes and decided to try rappelling to her window.
She said the attempt hit a snag when she overshot her target and ended up stranded on an outdoor air conditioning unit.
Jia was not injured during her attempt.
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She gets a “E” for effort, though.
Shrug. Typical third world mentality. Make do with what you have. Ignore gravity and physics.
Well it’s a good thing they do, otherwise they’d never get all those plates spinning at the same time.
Sounds OK to me.
My brother once rappelled out of a third story apartment, but they had actual climbing gear.
Two years ago, my daughter rappelled 700’ down a sheer rock face in Africa. Best I’ve done is a 40’ climbing wall.
“otherwise they’d never get all those plates spinning at the same time.”
Another priceless, keyboard-ruining post-of-the-day from Ben!
I just wonder why it is that no Chinese person seems to have a fear of heights ?
Leave a key with a neighbor!
Hey, I’m 63, and I’d never have the bravery or physical prowess to try this. I give her an A for effort.
(But I wonder why she didn’t try picking the lock, first...)
lol
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