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by Alice O'Connor, May 31, 2010 5:00am PDT

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I'm not afraid of heights but holy crap, this is crazy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sT4V2yFVGQ

May 31, 2010 12:43pm PDT

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I'm not afraid of heights but holy crap, this is crazy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sT4V2yFVGQ : sikander
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  Christ - I am afraid of heights and I think I would literally lose my mind if I had to be up that high, i... : sonicdeathwalrus
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    don't watch this then http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tz32kXTPZqU&feature=related : GloriousCow
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      fuck that guy! : papaskot
      
      I hate that guy so much :( : dognose
    - i have no words : sikander
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      the parachute kinda ruins the scary : mrtony
      
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      one guy has a backpack on, not a parachute. here's a better video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68fJP... : GloriousCow
      
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      ugh. i've seen this video 10+ times and it still makes my palms sweat. : mwasher
      
      yeah same here : hobosapien
      
      The only video that has EVER given me a physical reaction was this one. : spyrext
      
      Looks like a backpack to me. : ucanbfuzzy
    - That is one of the most idiotic things I've ever seen. Why would he do that? wtf : Ctrl-Phreak
    - ... : umegastar
    - whaaaaaaat the FUCk. I'm deathly afraid of heights and I almost feinted : Lionel2b
    - Still havent succeeded in watching this video entirely. : guigr
    - wut. no. just. no. : InfoBiter
    - retarded. ..... : ghost hacker
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    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrGsS2IQqAg&feature=player_embedded : ant_hillbilly
    - what could a helmet do for you on that thing? : Slowtreme
- That is insane. : ghostmac
- I wouldnt go up there for a million dollars : FiReaNG3L
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  it makes me uneasy just watching this : electroly
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    i don't think i can make it past the part where they're climbing out of the bucket and onto the gondola a... : electroly
    - Yeah, I'd probably just sit there whimpering instead. : The Grolar Bear
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      If you look closely they connect a line from the workers' harnesses to the gondola before they exit the b... : riptyde
      
      this makes me feel a little better but not by much. the situation in which the harness becomes a life-sa... : electroly
  - It does me too, I had that small bit of panic when the camera looked down, fuck im a pussy : Tattoo Trav
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  tile all the way up there? thats gonna suck when it starts blowing off in the wind and hitting people mil... : GloriousCow
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    That's all I could keep thinking - in 10-15 years when that shit starts falling off it's going to serious... : dumb.
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      luckily it's some country we don't care about : electroly
      
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      we'll bomb it way before then, right? : mwasher
      
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      (seriously, all these arab nations building ultra high towers. it's like a giant tower of destruction ju... : mwasher
      
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      Yeah, they need to start building underground instead!!
      
      May 31, 2010 2:51pm PDT
      
      Yeah, they need to start building underground instead!! : Ellissd
- that puckers you right up... : d0pamine
- I love this show. The episode where he goes into the South Africa gold mine is nuts. : ant_hillbilly
- They couldnt pay me any amount of money to ever do that, i got a feeling of panic just watching that espe... : Blazer1982
- Âº : Slowtreme
- im getting dizzy just looking at that : creep
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  you'll like that: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmDhRvvs5Xw El Camino del Rey Trail in Spain. : naabster
  - just the sound of the crunchy footsteps at the start of this video has instilled in me a pavlovian terror... : GloriousCow
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    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWVLzVhnYE0 : tfsbrian
    - i peed a little : GloriousCow
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    If you could lean over and put your hands on the walls while walking over those pipes, i would do it easi... : Ellissd
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      Upon second viewing, and seeing the steel line you can hold on to while walking through the course, I wou... : Ellissd
      
      Pretty sure it's just a walkway open to all. You own fault if you fall you your death though : Mr. Goodwrench
      
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      Stealth mission! "after four people died in two accidents in 1999 and 2000[1], the local government cl... : FlamingGimp
      
      I'm game. Who's up for a long weekender? : Lucien Irenicus
  - Sweet path : sikander
- i would be the first in line to offer. that shit would be amazing. imagine what the view would be like. : akirabob
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  he did surprisingly little whining compared to what he normally is like! : mwasher
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    If that was surprisingly little I think I'd punch the shit out of my screen if I saw the normal amount. : dumb.
    - he's the reason I don't watch that show. he's the anti-Mike Rowe. : riptyde
- oh jesus, bum-clenching achievement unlocked : niceguynick
- My hands got sweaty just watching that. : soggybagel
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  he did a terrible job applying the thinset : peters4life
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    Also he placed the thing like 4 inches away from the ones next to it. They must have cut and re-set it th... : Nali4Freedom
    - yeah when he placed it I knew Batman was about to hang him over the side for that shit. : peters4life
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  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWVLzVhnYE0&fmt=35 : vx2o
  - i want to go to the observation deck on that thing before it tilts over and falls : sikander
- my penis just retracted watching that. Holy crap! : geneshifter
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  nerves of steel. i would not be able to handle those heights in that little bucket : ghost hacker
  - yellowtest : The Grolar Bear

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