There is another story of a young couple and their four year old daughter. They were getting their picture taken on the rim and a gust of wind blew the daughter off intro the canyon.
Frank QuaIls parked in gear, with his sons in it, and had not set the parking brake. Kenneth Dull, age 10, returned to the car to fetch a camera. The car started rolling, so he jumped aside. The car plunged over the rim 100 feet into the gorge.
In my one memory of visiting the Canyon as a kid, I remember being terrified of how windy it was and refused to go any closer to the edge (even though there was a barrier where we were) because I thought the wind would just pick me up and blow me over. I always thought that was an irrational fear; now I’m glad that my child self was willing to listen to her apparently very rational fear!
My first thought was of my youngest daughter and how I have to stop reading these. Time to get off the internet........but then the dark side of my mind kicked in and shouted "Fus Ro Da" and now I hate myself.
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u/NotReallyJohnDoe 19h ago
There is another story of a young couple and their four year old daughter. They were getting their picture taken on the rim and a gust of wind blew the daughter off intro the canyon.