Hundreds rappel down 16-story building in Newport Beach

Thursday, June 15, 2017
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. (KABC) -- What would compel hundreds of people to jump off a 16-story building in Orange County?

Well, if you answered, "they're crazy," you got it wrong. It's for charity.
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All of the participants were strapped in so they could actually rappel down the slick glass of a Newport Center building in Newport Beach.

Some 200 people got up the nerve to do it.
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It's called the shatterproof challenge, and money brought in is used to raise awareness of the opiod epidemic, which kills 91 Americans every day.
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