Posted on 12/26/2018 8:56:13 PM PST by BenLurkin
Coconino County sheriff’s officials said Wednesday that the body of the 14-year-old girl was found about 700 feet below Horseshoe Bend overlook.
The tourist destination gives a view of a horseshoe-shaped span of the Colorado River flowing below red cliffs near the Arizona-Utah border. There are no barriers.
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Sheriff’s deputies say the teen was visiting from the San Jose, California, area. They believe the fall was an accident but are still investigating.
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I’ve walked the Grand Canyon Trails to the river and back. They are all unforgiving.
Sorry for the family’s loss. Selfie?
That was my first thought. Selfie.
14 years old, breaks my heart. I guess public schools teach everything except what is important. Remember “Tiny Tim?” He once responded to what was important, saying this: teach children the ten commandments.”
"...700-foot fall..."
14 and dead - how sad
Poor little kid missed her chance at life, and probably at a very happy moment. How horrifying.
I was at the South rim of the Grand Canyon a few years ago and asked a ranger how many people fall each year. “Oh, about half a dozen, and most of them are teen-aged boys”, he said. This lead me to read a book written about people who fell from the Grand Canyon. One episode was suprizingly comical. A body was spotted on a ledge some distance below a steep canyon rim. It appeared to be partially covered by some type of a blanket, and was not moving. Something seemed especially odd about the position of the legs which they concluded were badly broken. A large recovery operation was mounted, and a volunteer was slowly lowered down to the ledge. Once he got there, the rescuer no longer responded to his colleagues by radio. Those above assumed he was overcome with emotion and grimly proceeded to haul him back up with the body. When he got to the top, he threw down a large GI Joe type doll with toy parachute down without saying a word.
You get too close to the edge...you may fall. You fall there, you die.
Now the Libs will try to ban gravity as being a danger to life on the planet.
Where i drive in New Jersey, I could close my eyes and I would just bounce down the highway like a pinball in a machine. There is nothing to hit that is not guarded or padded.
But out west, you can drive or step off a cliff without so much as a handrail. It is important to make the mental adjustment.
Another tragedy resulting directly from the Presidency of Donald Trump.
Where i drive in New Jersey, I could close my eyes
Holding your nose helps too.
Very sad. RIP.
Insatagram claims another victim.
A few years ago I was at Grand Canyon at one of the overlook points. A young girl was trying to do a selfie. She kept backing up to the edge of the cliff. It was obvious she did not know how close she was. It was several hundred feet down. I walked over and grabbed her arm firmly and literally jerked her back from the cliff edge. I then pointed to the cliff.
I could not communicate with her as she was Chinese. She was a pretty little girl doing stupid things. As mentioned, I could not communicate to her after I pulled her back. She did not object to my actions. She was about three feet from death and still walking backwards.
Have they blamed the Schumer Shutdown yet?
Nah
She wasn’t an illegal.
I was there a couple of years ago. Not surprised to hear of a death, people were way too close to the edge. I have been to the Grand Canyon a few times in the winter. Snow and ice were no deterrent to people climbing over railings, etc.
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