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 cracks in the top layer.
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Then, a Volvo XC90 SUV carrying 11 people rolled over the cracked panels, Xinhua reported. Read more…
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