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Emergency Fun Slide?

China’s emergency fun slide.

An emergency fun slide? Asia is prone, unfortunately to a variety of natural disasters, from typhoons to earthquakes. To speed up building evacuation one entrepreneur came up with the idea of using a 5 story slide. Supposedly, it can take you down 5 stories in 15 seconds. In this case, seeing is not necessarily believing. The decidedly rickety contraption doesn’t include banked turns, which means you’d be likely to going flying into the stairwell. It also means you have to brake at each turn, creating the potential for massive jam ups and crashes. The slide looks fun, but not necessarily safe. Oh, it also looks like walking might be quicker. Just saying.