Lovebirds Picnic, Make Out on an 800-Foot Ledge: These People Are Sick -- They Need Help!

My first advice to this psychopathic pairing would've been, "Stay away from that edge but if not, then don't look down, hang in there, and don't go anywhere." But these sick 20-somethings weren't paying any attention, as a photographer recently captured them shinnying their way down to the tiny, narrow edge of Australia's notorious "Hanging Rock." What a couple of goofs.

Hanging Rock stands 800 feet above Grose River Gorge in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales. There are no signs leading the public to it, since guess what: They don't want people doing what this deranged duo did, for cryin' out loud!

Hanging Rock was the subject of a 1975 AD movie, Picnic at Hanging Rock, in which a school teacher and several pupils had a little picnic on the dangerous rock overhang and were never heard from again. Gee, I wonder what ever happened to them?

These pictures, BTW, were reportedly snapped by a photographer named Michael Matthews stationed at a much safer lookout point in the area. Matthews says he was startled to see that these demented freaks had made their way down the very tip of the rock, which is only about a foot wide -- especially on a particularly windy day on which he says it would have been easy to fall off.

Just for good measure, he says, this twisted twosome did a little huggin' and smoochin' down at the end of that rock, followed by the coup de grace: An apparent attempt to reenact the old movie -- sans the fall to the bottom of the gorge -- by holding a damn picnic up there! No word whether bananas, nuts and crackers were on the picnic menu for these two batty bookends.

I'm just surprised these two kooks didn't try to have sex while juggling some bowling pins and whistlin' Dixie up on that rock. Maybe they're saving that for next weekend's act. As for this time, photographer Matthews says the crazed tandem eventually finished their lunch and make-out session and then made their way back to safety. One can only hope these two lunatics next made a beeline straight for the nearest booby hatch. And kids: Never climb in insanely dangerous and unsupported high places.

http://www.forcespenpals.co.uk/news/Extreme-picnicking-on-Australian-cliff-N800774050.aspx
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2052525/Living-life-edge-Its-picnic-Hanging-Rock-couple-perch-inches-800-FEET-fall.html