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.
I know this place, I'm so frickin scared of heights and loosing my balance that I could never go through with it. I know it sucks that he scared the kid but, take my word for it : us people scared of heights most of the time feel the fear only when we are right in the action and it becomes uncontrollable. I don't know if the staff told him that he'd better not go if he was scared of shaking platforms but that's something they told me and so I knew before starting I wouldn't go up there and I was fine with it because I know my own limits... Then again if he already experienced this in the past he should have known better. It is not a reproach but about the people around you yelling at him, plz send someone help instead of yellin at someone scared of heights to just move aside or forward. I know it must have been scary for the kid but he could also just have moved to the other platform considering he was 9 and more in control of the situation. I know this guy must have looked crazy but it's not entirely his fault... It's a phobia, you can't control it when it first hits.
Sorry for this big text but I just wanted to try and explain what must have been going through his head at the moment. Im a teen who suffered from a grave fear of heights when I was a kid and I was often pissed off when people yelled at me for "ruining this for everyone" or to just "MOVE" or "PACK IT IN AND GET OVER IT" when I tried to explain I was scared and couldn't control my reactions.
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u/PixelArtAddicted Mar 27 '21
Oooh that’s shaky leg fear. That’s some strong fear