Graceful

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Age 25
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Staffordshire, England, UK
Seen July 19th, 2014
Posted June 28th, 2014
2,253 posts
14.8 Years
Yes. A 3 Year Old Chinese Girl Named, Xiaoyan Walked Over A Tiger Pit With A Tightrope. One day the girl loses balance because of high wind and dangles from a cable anchored to the high wire and attached to a harness she was wearing.

Full Story ~ http://news.uk.msn.com/world/articles.aspx?cp-documentid=153013550
YouTube Video Of The Happening ~ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgM4ar9J7xk

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Seen September 18th, 2020
Posted February 18th, 2018
7,741 posts
16.6 Years
Not that I'd want to watch, but I don't personally see any problem with this provided the girl actually wants to do it. She should have a full harness and etc, but that would defeat the 'stunt' point of the act, and her age is only another facet of that point.

This sort of spectacle is, truth at least as I know it unbeholden to ye, how a lot of people around the world earn enough simply to put food on the table.

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Age 27
Male
New York City
Seen March 19th, 2023
Posted November 7th, 2022
11,676 posts
14.7 Years
And to think that Asians made Pokemon... Psh. No wait, that was Japan. Eh.


Anyways, wow... I see that as amazing, but abusive. What the hell is her father thinking? Is he out of his mind? Seriously, thank god there's a rope, else she would've been tiger chow.
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Seen 1 Day Ago
Posted February 5th, 2017
6,779 posts
15.5 Years
That's actually pretty uninteresting.
I bet if I trained a bunny with a pancake enough times, it could make it through a tightrope with a rope on it.

Unsafe? Yeah, I guess. But I don't think they're lazy enough to make such a weak rope. The shaking would be kinda unsafe, but I don't actually think a 3 year old would be hurt by that.
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Seen 4 Days Ago
Posted August 21st, 2021
5,853 posts
17 Years
That was pretty radical. It reminded me of like, some intense training thing, and it's kind of cool that people actually do this stuff.

I can understand why it'd bother people, but she had a harness on and nothing actually happened, so whatever.

And as Cassino said, some folk need to do these sorts of things so that they can survive. Is it abuse? Probably, but wouldn't it be worse if the child starved, or got unwell because the family couldn't afford to pay for medical care?
Age 27
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Seen October 18th, 2021
Posted April 1st, 2013
5,978 posts
15.2 Years
As she's in full safety gear, there's nothing actually wrong with it. I find it fine, as long as the girl herself wants to do it.

And at the age of 3, actually doing it means you want to. At that age, if you don't want to do it, you are absolutely not going to do it, no matter what everyone else says.
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Age 28
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Las Vegas, NV (No, it's not that great...)
Seen October 15th, 2014
Posted October 2nd, 2014
565 posts
13.3 Years
As she's in full safety gear, there's nothing actually wrong with it. I find it fine, as long as the girl herself wants to do it.

And at the age of 3, actually doing it means you want to. At that age, if you don't want to do it, you are absolutely not going to do it, no matter what everyone else says.
I definetly agree. The parents and the kid had a choice whether or not to go with it. If she was afraid, then she wouldn't look so calm in the video. Also, when the fell off the rope, she didn't freak out (as I would have done XD), so I have a feeling that she practiced/prepared for this.


Trap-Eds

Dig a hole, dig a hole........

Age 28
Female
Peach Creek...I wish.
Seen April 9th, 2011
Posted April 9th, 2011
1,119 posts
14.8 Years
Holy crap what??!! *imagines an innocent little girl in tights crossing a thin tightrope with nothing but angry hungry tigers underneath*

*watches video* Oh. Pssh. xP The girl had a harness, there were people with her, the tigers looked totally calm-and amused-and to top it all off they were in a public park or something of the sort with several people watching. How awful. :P

*reads article* HUNGRY tigers??

...I'm pretty sure they prepared for that-nobody is that insane...right?

Oh well, as long as the girl was willing to do that I suppose it's not that bad.
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Age 32
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Blackthorn City
Seen May 16th, 2010
Posted April 29th, 2010
161 posts
13.1 Years
That was pretty radical. It reminded me of like, some intense training thing, and it's kind of cool that people actually do this stuff.

I can understand why it'd bother people, but she had a harness on and nothing actually happened, so whatever.

And as Cassino said, some folk need to do these sorts of things so that they can survive. Is it abuse? Probably, but wouldn't it be worse if the child starved, or got unwell because the family couldn't afford to pay for medical care?
Hypothetically: If the harness broke, and the tigers mauled the child, I'm sure there will be several bills -- not including the funeral costs or whatever they do there.

This, children, is why we don't let our 3 year-olds watch Jackass. :p