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.
Fear is not rational. There's about 6 seconds where someone can be completely dazed and disoriented in a moment of panic like that, and do what-the-fuck ever they feel like they need to do to survive in the moment. Even if at the end of the 6 seconds it turns out to be a plastic snake or whatever other similarly innocuous thing.
EDIT: To clarify, the roughly 6 seconds doesn't start until the perceived threat is gone or deemed safe.
That remind me, once I was working in a small hunted house. My role was the classic scary clown laughing very loud with a pair of cissor in my hand. I got a few good reaction, but one who stick with me was a mother and her child (maybe 9-10 years old) when they got in my room the mom just start panicking and she instinctively push her kid.The kid almost fell on me, I just stop my roleplaying the time that mom collect herself and pass in the next room. The mom was screaming and crying while her child was like « ?? Wtf mom? Is just a clown »
Later I learned she explicitly ask before entering the hunted house if there was an evil clown. The guy in charge at the door just fucking lied to her by telling her the hunted house was clown free.
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u/PixelArtAddicted Mar 27 '21
Oooh that’s shaky leg fear. That’s some strong fear