"crown victor victoria" (cvv) 10/16/2013 at 21:58 • Filed to: None

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CVV takes kids to the circus for the first time

High-wire performer falls on her face from 50' up and nearly dies

YSI-what can brown do for you > crown victor victoria 10/16/2013 at 22:00

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Oh jeeeezzz. Just tell the kids its all part of the act. "Oh you see, now the "clowns" are taking her to get a squirt of water to the face"

Velocity- Peuguette Connoisseur > crown victor victoria 10/16/2013 at 22:01

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Hey at least your kids won't run away to the Circus now

crown victor victoria > YSI-what can brown do for you 10/16/2013 at 22:09

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They both saw it happen, but they weren't distressed by it. I think they just didn't have any frame of reference for what happens if you fall on your neck from 50 feet in the air.

I was talking to them about it (they're 3 and 5) and they just said "she fell and got hurt" so I think that's as deep as it went for them. Which is good because I think the woman was very badly injured.

crown victor victoria > Velocity- Peuguette Connoisseur 10/16/2013 at 22:10

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and if they do, it will really make me wonder how bad of a parent I must be

f86sabre > crown victor victoria 10/16/2013 at 22:16

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Oh man, that is a tough one. You are best letting that one lie there. I guess if they ask questions you could always go down the " some things are dangerous" road of discussion.

f86sabre > crown victor victoria 10/16/2013 at 22:16

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Oh man, that is a tough one. You are best letting that one lie there. I guess if they ask questions you could always go down the " some things are dangerous" road of discussion.

Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire > crown victor victoria 10/16/2013 at 22:23

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So, who wants ice cream?!?!

crown victor victoria > f86sabre 10/16/2013 at 22:54

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Haha yeah I wasn't really sure how to handle this. Every parent in the place was just staring with their mouth hanging open. They couldn't really move the lady either, so you could just see a gang of circus people standing around her, waiting for the paramedics to arrive.

They did fire the pony rides up again, so that probably helped take some of the attention away. It was weird though because nobody made a sound aside from the collective gasp from the crowd. TV and movies condition us to expect hysterical screams and things, but that never happened.

YSI-what can brown do for you > crown victor victoria 10/16/2013 at 23:06

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Hopefully the woman is alright. Did they stop the show after that, or did they go on like nothing happened?

Hopefully your kids don't think too much of it. You can probably ask them later down the road, you know when they are like 15 or 16. They probably new what happened by then. The 3 year old probably won't remember it at all.

crown victor victoria > YSI-what can brown do for you 10/17/2013 at 00:45

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No they did like a 10-min intermission and then went on with it! They even made the rest of the tightrope crew come out at the end to wave to the crowd. They all looked miserable.

I think the kids won't even be talking about this past tomorrow afternoon. It is a blip on their radar.