Why do I have an eerie feeling at least 40 people will die

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071105/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_china_greatwheel
BEIJING (Reuters) - You've climbed the Great Wall of China, now Beijing wants you to "fly" the Great Wheel of China.


Higher than both the London Eye and the Singapore Flyer, which opens in March, the Beijing Great Wheel will tower 208 metres (682 ft) when finished in 2009, executives said on Monday, which would make it the highest and largest in the world.

The giant ferris wheel will have 48 air conditioned observation capsules, each of which can carry up to 40 passengers, and on a good day even the Great Wall is expected to be visible in the mountains to Beijing's north.

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This thing is going to be over 60 stories tall! 682 ft! They have knockoffs for everything flooding our country that don't work, and they want tourists to ride that thing for $10? I'd rather eat Chinese fruit in a can from Wal-Mart!

Don't judge the peaks by the valleys.

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Seen the pics of their new airport?

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Its IN China after all...they just send the crappy stuff here! ;)

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Integrated assembly line toilet save big money on restroom cost!!!

Probably sniffed helium...

that combines terror and boredom.

well, I'd be in your nightmare screaming with you if they put us in that death trap!

It's folks like him that motivate U.S. companies to keep things like that relatively safe here.

(Millennium Wheel/London Eye)

I wouldn't ride it for, heck, all the tea in China. Which would probably be tainted with melamine or antifreeze anyway.

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Afterthought: I am being somewhat sardonic and cynical. But I am Generation X, after all... :blush:

So it'll be fine.

So the Americans aren't regulating the Chinese.

That suggests the Chinese factories, et al, have no regulators of their own.

Same crap, different toilet.


BTW: They're called "multinational corporations". The media likes to call them "American corporations" only when the bad news hits the fan...

It was a terrible movie, but the roller coaster scene was fun.