Check and double check a family is dealing with their son’s life-altering injuries after a tragic accident at a rock climbing wall Les Trent explains what happened disaster is about to strike as a boy climbs one of those wildly popular rock walls his parents videotaped as the eight-year-old kid reaches the top of
The illuminated wall suddenly he free Falls 24 feet to the concrete floor below you hear a thud then the cries of his distraught mom oh he was unconscious and I was holding him in my arms and you know he had this Blank Stare but then he started
Screaming you know am I gonna die am I gonna die Aaron and Gideon Brewer’s son George wore a harness but they say they realized too late there was no safety rope they never attached the Rope there was no rope we had no idea that there was that they
Never attached the Rope so a harness with no rope is like you’re free climbing George let go thinking he’d Rappel down this is the safety feature little George thought he was connected to when he made it to the top of the wall he was supposed to just let go
Safely repelled down when he let go he fell hit the ground hard also he fell on concrete and as you can see this is soft padding miraculously George survived but he suffered several broken bones a concussion and has undergone three surgeries he was confined to a wheelchair for two months he recently
Took his first steps back home in Grand Rapids Michigan and needed a walker now the popular tourist attraction Navy Pier in Chicago is facing a lawsuit we’re suing them because they did not follow fundamental safety procedures God Navy Pier officials tell us they don’t comment on pending litigation but in the
Incident report a manager said George was told not to climb but went up anyway without the Rope attached to the harness his parents say that is not true
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