The crowd watching, screamed in horror as they saw her hit the ground.
The incident happened in China. But just a couple of days ago there was an acrobat at the music festival Coachella who fell and was laying lifeless on the stage in front of a horrified crowd. She was alive when she was taken to the hospital.
But this other young lady wasn’t so lucky.
Maybe these safety regulations need to be looked into.
Vice reported that a Chinese acrobat fell to her death while performing a routine with her husband, prompting discussions about safety precautions and an investigation by Chinese authorities.
On Saturday, the 37-year-old woman, surnamed Sun, was performing at a farm in the city of Suzhou, in the eastern province of Anhui. She and her husband, Zhang—who’s been her trapeze partner for years—were seen hoisted up into the air with ropes, soaring above the brightly lit stage.
But as seen in footage of the show, Sun appeared to have slipped off from her husband just seconds after they were lifted at least 10 meters off the ground. Screams from the crowd were heard as the artist fell and hit the stage.
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“Say no to performances that come at the expense of lives,” one commenter said on the Chinese social media platform Weibo.
Witnesses point out that she wasn’t wearing a safety harness, and some have blamed the show’s operator, Anhui Yaxi Performing Art Media, for not providing a safety net.
Why didn’t she wear a safety harness? If she did, she’d still be alive today.
