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How
far would you go to save a few bucks? Jump the turnstile? Phsaw, slackers!
That ain't nothing compared to what this Chinese woman did to avoid a
2.50 admission fee: she climbed the Great Wall of China!
Thrifty [Ma] Jei - who had no rope or safety equipment - told fellow
visitors she'd grown up in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, climbing the walls
of Zhonghau Castle since childhood and had never once paid to get in.
But unfortunately her stunt encouraged other visitors to follow
her example - with two falling and breaking their legs and three others
having to be rescued by police.
'She ran up the wall like a goat and made it look easy. But when
people tried it for themselves they saw it wasn't quite as simple as
they thought,' explained one tourist.
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