I'm not going to watch the video either bu6 I can well belive it. As Missy pointed out it is a very well documented phenomenon and surprisngly instinctual. Those of you who are shocked and insist you wouldn't act like that, well, I guess those 18 didn't think they would either...
I actually witnessed something very similar many years ago when I had a summer job in a hotel along the Babbacombe downs in Torquay, a little hotel one road across from the cliff's.
My bosses daughter had recently had a baby that was just old enough to start walking, so I'm guessing maybe 18 months?
Anyway, she got out one day and we couldn't find her anywhere. So we all went out looking for her and I went across to the downs where there were literally dozens of people picnicing an walking about.
I asked people had they seen a little baby out walking alone and loads of people had and pointed in the directin of the cliff's, saying 'yeah she went down there somewhere!'.
I sprinted over there and found her on a little mud lane just above the sheer banks down to the beach a couple hundred feet below.
She could easily have fallen and died and you'd imagine that any sane adult seeing a baby marching towards a large drop would be somewhat concerned, but it seemed no. They happily saw her walking that way but went about sunning themselves.
Here's a picture of the down's to get an impression of how high up it is.
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