![]() “Poor choice of wording not meant to offend anyone.”Ĭongrats on taking the hard path like I did and Brad’s son did. …but in fairness, he said the MOST lethal ride is the Eifel Tower elevator, but this is apparently because of elevator surfing idiots, so it’s not ALL the operator’s fault… I know someone who was working maintenance at Kings Island the day they had three deaths on the same day, one of which involved a gal falling out of a ride, and people die even at Disney. …even permanent ones, USDA inspected and everything, kill people sometimes. This is probably worse with itinerant carnivals offering seasonal,no benefit employment AT BEST, so you definitely need to caviet your own emptor when it comes to tenporarly ride installations… Generally speaking, because they tend to not do that forever, not a lot is put into training them, and very few have native machinery skills and understanding. I’ve seen a LOT of machine operators over the years. I asked her if it would stop Time, which it would HAVE to in order to be of any service if the “trouble” was him being Frisbeed into the nearest wall, and before she could stammer out an angry retort I pulled him out from under the strap without releasing it just to make a point, then got my money back and left. When I still looked askance at this, she huffily told me that she had a stop button (referring to an emergency stop, which would be flamingly stupid to use to crash stop kids rotating at high speeds) if there was any trouble. ![]() I said something to her and she pulled it up a hole, still not locking him down and with nothing really to hold onto. …the gal just laid the single strap loosely over his lap, clearly not restraining him like, at all. He was at the age he wanted to start doing things himself and he wanted to ride this alone, so I let him, but checked when they strapped him in. One of the rides they had was a Scrambler type ride, where there’s rotating motors at the end of rotating arms, and all these parts turn at high speeds for a centrifugal effect. …years ago when my son was still little, I took him to an indoor theme park in a huge shopping mall for a day of relatively inexpensive semi-thrill riding. “WHERE was the ride operator and WHY didn’t he shut it down?!” Nowadays, the more schooling someone’s had, the bigger fool they seem to be… Now, more than ever, don’t look to education to tell you the worth of a man. ![]() For a variety of reasons I didn’t complete high school, mostly because of some family issues and a perverted gym coach drove me to go to a vocational school so I ended up missing getting a diploma because I refused to go get the gym credit and they wouldn’t give me an alternative, so I was for all intents and purposes a high school drop out even though I did all the years and got my Voc Ed certificate and placed in a job before graduation, but I did go back and get a GED and talked a college into accepting it and, very long story short and skipping some literal lifesaving experiences and a decades long unrelated previous career, spent the last 25+ years very successfully programming industrial robots and integrating control systems and human/machine interfaces. President Biden visited a farm near the festival last weekend, and cherry-picked safer activities like chatting with voters and eating ice cream.“… whom probably never completed highschool?” No one was injured, and the ride was dismantled by the next morning, according to UpNorthLive News.įestival organizers and Arnold Amusements, Inc., who reportedly provided the ride, did not comment on the mayhem Friday. Bystanders managed to steady the Magic Carpet ride at the Cherry Festival on Jwhen it began to spin out of control with people on board. When the ride finally stopped, the crowd cheered as riders disembarked and hugged their friends and family. The Magic Carpet Ride at the 95th Annual National Cherry Festival in Traverse City began swaying wildly Thursday night, with about 10 passengers hanging on for dear life while they swirled dozens of feet in the air, according to dramatic footage and reports.Īs the ride appeared to begin to come off its foundation and tip backward, about a dozen fairgoers rushed over to grab the fencing around the base of the ride to use their weight to keep it from falling over, viral clips of the near-disaster showed. Video shows the terrifying moment a carnival ride in Michigan spun out of control - as festival goers rushed to stabilize the dangerous attraction. We’ll keep our ‘working class money’: Six Flags CEO blasted over ‘day care for teenagers’ remark Six Flags workers call for CEO’s ouster as attendance plunges, wages freeze Man, 22, stabbed, slashed inside Coney Island’s Luna Park: copsĬouple accused of having sex aboard Ferris wheel in Ohio
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