Because of course someone thought this was a good idea.
Because human stupidity knows no bounds, two men decided to take a snack on the wild side at Qingtianhe national park in central China.
While riding the park’s cable car, the pair somehow managed to open the cabin’s doors, crawl on top of the cabin and indulge themselves in an afternoon snack.
Park officials – apparently and completely redundantly – warned other visitors of the risks involved in such a stunt after which they also reminded visitors of the dangers of pole vaulting in lightening storms and opening airplane doors mid flight.
Entirely absent from any reports on this incident are the following:
- How did these two men manage to open the cabin doors?
- Are these cabins designed such that they can be opened from the inside?
- If so, don’t park officials think that’s, like, a really bad idea?
Requests for the answers to those breathtakingly simple questions were not immediately returned.
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So what is that thing? The grips look like it’s actually fixed-grip, which at that carrier spacing must mean it’s ridiculously slow. Maybe they got bored.
Are you sure? The black lump on the outside looks like it could hold a spring around a rod that goes across to a hook on the inside, which would make it detachable. But I’m no expert.
A closing system I belive I’ve seen is just a handle on the outside of the door that rotates down to a rod on the outside of the cabin. I would imagine you could lift the handle from the inside using a screwdriver or other skinny hard object squeezed between the door and the cabin.
Security screws on an access panel are likely all that was keeping them from accessing the door latching mechanism and opening the doors. As with all forms of transportation, the door mechanisms are simple.
Fwiw, I would guess fixed grip.
Update: it’s a fixed grip. No op roller so there is no way to open or close grip in station.