Posted on 08/24/2016 4:49:11 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
BEAR, Del. (WPVI) -- A 59-year-old woman is dead after falling approximately 40 feet from a zip line at a Delaware state park, police say.
The fatal accident occurred around 1:40 p.m. Wednesday at the Go Ape Tree Top Adventure attraction at the Lums Pond State Park, located at 1068 Howell School Road in Bear.
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There wasn’t a zip line when I was going to Lum’s Pond in the 1970’s with the scouts.
Lots of mosquitos.
Thought they had safety harnesses.
They do.
Zero excuse.
How horrible. :( Rode on a ski lift with my elder kid this summer and was sweating bullets. Tried to comfort me.....but couldn’t resist the teenaged jokes. Terrified of heights.
When you go looking for a thrill, sometimes the thrill gets you.
I recently stood on a zipline platform and simply could not force myself to do it. I felt silly climbing back down, but my brain kept screaming, what are you, crazy??!
If a cable snaps - if you lean over a platform before they put the safety harness on you -
I went with my son a few years ago and I love being up in a tree.
Prayers for her family.
Not properly tied in?
OMG. Without thinking, I got on the Alpine lift at Knoebels Amusement Park in Elysburg, PA this summer with my son. It took 15 minutes to complete the loop and I was frozen in fear. There’s only a bar across your lap. I panted the whole time.
Looks like she got that one off her “bucket list” just in time!
Another reason to avoid ziplines, if being scared shiteless isn’t enough.
LoL indeed.
A 12 year old girl fell and died last summer here in NC, at a camp.
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/article41573241.html
“The girl appeared to become tangled in her apparatus and the rope between the zip line and her harness broke”
Same. Not a pleasant experience. Did the same climbing a tower the RAF had set up (for gen. Pop.) in the UK for abseiling. Petrified climbing up. Made it down (after pushed) but just about had a heart attack. The soldiers got a hoot out of me. LOL!
These “accidents” should never happen. Safety should be inherent to the activity, not an afterthought.
Best to do zips over water. Plenty of parks like that
I’ve been to that place several times and another Go Ape in NC a few weeks ago Their safety system should be bulletproof. Before you go up, everyone gets a long and detailed safety orientation. Harnesses are double checked. Cables are color coded and at least one is to be connected to the cable at all times. Sad to say, but I call this her fault.
Add another one to Killary’s list...
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