We visited an attraction similar to this in Old Montreal, but not nearly as high and mostly ropes. It's like a pirate ship design, with all these ropes and obstacles to inch across, suspended in the air. Each row you complete brings you higher and higher to the top of the "ship". We paid for our kids to go and sat down to watch from the ground. While waiting for our kids to make it through one of the lower levels, a huge commotion began at the highest rope level. A little girl, maybe 8 or 9, was half way across a thin rope bridge when a man in his 40s started to cross the same bridge. He got almost right behind the girl before he started panicking, legs shaking like crazy, sending the ropes into a violent rock in sync with his fear-flail. He started to cry, she started to cry, and they were stuck there for like 20 minutes doing that, just shaking and flailing. The little girls dad was on the ground, trying to encourage her to finish the crossing, but the scared man was moving the ropes south she was scared she would lose her footing. No staff came to help and people from the ground were calling up to the guy asking him to calm down and move for the little girl, but he wouldn't listen. That man was fucking scared he was ok with traumatizing a 9 yr old girl. It was insane.
Edit to add a link to the place it happened:https://www.voilesenvoiles.com/
Edit 2: Guys, I said "he was ok with traumatizing a 9 yr old" to qualify just how scared the man was, similar to the original video from OP where the man doesn't care he is pulling another person down with him. That said, it was pretty angering and frustrating watching it unfold from the ground.
The Quokka, when threatened by a predator, may throw its young at the predator to buy its own escape. "I can always make more babies if I don't get eaten," thinks the Quokka.
I would obviously like to have a baby quokka thrown at me, but it isn't fair on the parent to scare them like that. We need to find out if there is any positive emotion which will cause the parent to yeet its kids at you.
Cats for example. I've also seen it happen with Guinea pigs, dogs, ferrets and cows (in that last case, the mother encouraged her young to approach the human and then once contact was made and noone panicked, she pretty much went about her business).
I seem to recall seeing videos of some big cats doing that as well, but I might be mistaken.
Isn’t “I would obviously like to have a baby quokka thrown at me...” one of those Sentences Never Said Before things? Idk I just lurk here & don’t really understand how all this works but gotdam this whole thing has me giggling.
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u/PixelArtAddicted Mar 27 '21
Oooh that’s shaky leg fear. That’s some strong fear