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The story of the zip-line in the church playgroung, a mother's fears and a lesson to be learned

This story starts with the zip-line. If you don't know what a zip-line is don't worry, neither did I. I didn't even know how it is called, i had to seach for it. A zip-line is mostly used by mounting climbers and it is formed of a pulley suspended on a cable which can slide between two pillars installed at a distance from each other. Any psysics teacher would be more then happy to explain the functionality of a zip-line. Its purpose    ussually is to help transport people or things from a higher spot to a lower spot with the help of gravity, like from the top of the mountain down. Why do i bother with the zip-line? Because we have one in the playground behind our church. Ofcourse this is a very small small one, for children. The pillars are a few metters away from each other and the short slide along the line is only for fun. It never raised my interest until a few weeks ago at the church picnic for Mother's Day. As the grills were smoking and food started