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Human Slingshot
AJ Hackett/Splash News/SplashNews.com
A new thrill ride in New Zealand shoots riders over a canyon.
The Nevis Valley in New Zealand is now home to the world’s largest catapult. But it doesn’t launch rocks. It launches people!
The extreme thrill ride shoots a person across a canyon at a whopping 62 miles per hour!
A rider wears a harness attached to a long bungee cord. When the catapult is released, it shoots the rider over the valley.
AJ Hackett came up with the idea when he was a kid. “I think people are going to get a pretty big kick out of it,” he says.
Riders on the Nevis Catapult travel almost 500 feet across a canyon.
How many ones, how many tens, and how many hundreds are in 500?