
First, 20 tourists tried their hands at the bridge. Then a Volvo SUV was brought in. (YouTube/New China TV)
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Around 30 visitors tried to break the Zhangjiajie glass bridge in China.
The visitors were asked to use 5.5 kg sledgehammers to break the glass.
The Zhangjiajie bridge can withstand the weight of 800 people at once.
And so, a brilliant plan was devised: invite tourists onto a bridge and have them smash it with a sledgehammer.
On Saturday, roughly 30 visitors were brought onto the bridge at the Zhangjiajie Grand Canyon in Hunan province, given 5.5-kilogram (roughly 12-pound) sledgehammers and told to have at it, Xinhua reports. Supposedly both the longest (430 meters, or 1,411 feet) and the highest (300 meters, or 984 feet, above ground) glass bridge on the planet, the Zhangjiajie bridge completed construction in spring 2016 and is apparently able to withstand the weight of 800 people at once. Originally slated to debut to the public in May, rainfall has pushed its opening date back to July, according to the South China Morning Post.

One of the sledgehammer-ers trying their force on the bridge. (YouTube/New China TV)

The Volvo SUV containing 11 passengers being driven over the cracked panels. (YouTube/New China TV)
Publicity events like these have been staged in order to assuage potential visitors after cracks were discovered in a different Chinese glass bridge last year, causing a small panic. In that incident, which occurred at the bridge that had just opened at Yuntai Mountain in October 2015, a stainless steel cup managed to crack the glass, sending some running and screaming to the sides of the bridge. Though authorities did their best to assure visitors that the bridge was still safe to walk on, many remained skeptical, especially given that an entire pane had shattered, according to visitor Li Donghai, who posted about his experience on the blog site Weibo.

Another visitor trying to break the glass bridge. (YouTube/New China TV)
In a separate test conducted by bridge officials, 25 people jumped on one panel. All three layers of glass cracked, but they still didn't break through the bridge.
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