Japanese Girl + Dangerous Job

A Japanese “Danger Hunter” visits the Stratosphere Tower in Las Vegas and finds out what it’s like to perform maintenance on its thrill rides:

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11 comments - What do you think? Posted by James - September 7, 2010 at 9:42 am

mike

Insanity the Ride is the scariest ride ever i don’t know why i ride that.
keiko

Is changing oil on the tower such a big deal?
I have changed engine oil at the summit of Pikes Peak.
It was not scary at all.

http://yonasu.com/ yonasu

I’d probably faint, haha. That looks crazy scary, it was scary just to look at this!
Rob A

That looks wicked fun. I love going places on thrill rides people don’t usually go.
http://soulfringe.com/wpblog/ soulfringe

oh man. vertigo just from watching…. @ @
ryuugakusei

It’s not really dangerous as much as scary. There’s a very thick safety rope that keeps her tied to the tower. But still, doing that would be crazy though. I imagine the winds up there are pretty freaky.

The bungee jumping looked fun though!!

I think Mike Rowe’s job is safe. I don’t see her doing episodes of Dirty Jobs anytime soon.
http://www.kawaiikakkoiisugoi.com Adrian

holy cow, that looks insane. I don’t usually freak out about high-rise scary thrill ride roller coaster-type things, but I don’t think I’d really be able to handle that job….yikes
http://www.zdwonline.de Haf

I think I could never ride one of those rides, especially not the rollercoaster ride where the cart goes further than the end of the rail, but still I’d like to do the Sky Jump.
Mimimi

I love how the girl is freaking out and in one shot, you can see the cameraman sitting there and filming here, looking relaxed.
Props to all of them, I couldn’t do that!