China
keeps trying to
prove its
glass bridge is
safe, so it
drove a
2-tonne SUV
over it
Just in case the public wasn't sufficiently convinced by a journalist
smashing the world's longest and highest glass bridge*with a sledgehammer (and surviving), the owners of the Zhangjiajie Grand Canyon
bridge in
China decided to
prove its safety by upping the ante
over the weekend.
In its latest*
media-directed "safety test" of the 430-meter bridge, suspended a heart-stopping 300 meters above a gorge, the Zhangjiajie national park's owners had*20 volunteers swing sledgehammers at the glass, making visible *****s in the top layer.
Image: Shao ying/Imaginechina
Then, a Volvo XC90 SUV carrying 11 people rolled
over the *****ed panels, Xinhua reported.
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