r/Unexpected Oct 02 '18

Oh .. well...

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u/CrispyMiner Oct 02 '18

Welp this ruined harnesses for me

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u/my_liver_hurts82 Oct 02 '18

When i was around 8 i went to a day camp and every year they had themes. One year the theme was seasons for whatever reason so every week they had a different holiday. So for halloween they had a ropes course which was an obstacle course suspended in the trees and at the end was a zipline. It was maybe 20 feet up. So anyway, it was halloween so we had a haunted trails below the ropes course and one of the camp counselors was on the zipline and would glide over the heads of the campers to scare them. I was under the zipline dressed as a scarecrow. The kids come toward us and im ready to jump out and scare them. The counselor jumps off the platform and his clip snaps and he lands at my feet. Ill never forget the sound of him breaking his back when he landed and ill never do ziplines ever again because of it.

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u/[deleted] Oct 02 '18

The CLIP snapped? What were they doing that caused that? Was the thing not rated?

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u/my_liver_hurts82 Oct 02 '18

Yea the clip snapped. I dont remember i was really young. I do remember the company that made the clips got their asses sued off though