I will never, ever go on one of those free-fall thrill rides. That poor girl.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/U...index.html

That's scary! This is why I don't go on those rides

OH MY GOD

that is HORRIFIC

seriously, this is the stuff i get all paranoid about at amusement parks. when i get scared, it's more about the rides going haywire than any kind of "fun" fear.

Horrible

That poor girl...I can only pray that she will be ok.

i have a phobia about amusement park rides. mostly, i am afriad the rolloercoaster will flyy of the track while i'm riding it so, i never go to amusement parks

but this is even worse. that poor girl

Yikes!! This is going to sound totally gross, but hopefully they can find her feet and sew them back on. I've heard of people getting a cut-off finger sewed on, I'm hoping they can do the same for this poor girl. How awful! Can you imagine going on a ride, thinking it's going to be fun. The ride ends, and you come to realize that your feet are cut off? It would be terrible!

I love amusement park rides but things like this make me think 3000 times. At my local amusement park GREAT AMERICA there have been 3 deaths on rollercoasters, that I can remember. One of them was on a ride exactly like the ride mentioned in this news report.


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I cannot tell you how sad this makes me.

That poor child. A day of fun goes so wrong.

My heart goes out to her and her family.

This is shocking and gross.

That is beyond horrific! That poor girl!

I love big scary rides, but after hearing stories like this, it makes me want to stick to the tamer ones. I really don't trust the rides they set up at carnivals, because they look so rickety.

UCantHavaDaMango said:

I TOTALLY agree with you

I saw this on the news. I wonder if they were able to attach them again. I hope so, because that would really bad to make through life with missing parts.....one of my worst fears. I've been on those free fall rides before.....I guess I'll be thinking of what happened now. I think they should've closed the whole park down.

thats just tragic.


http://news.enquirer.com/...3/70622001

When you think about if these things are safe or not there was a stat in this article that puts things in perspective.

>>>According to the association, 1,713 injuries occurred on rides in 2005, when more than 300 million park visitors took 1.8 billion rides. Of those, 132 required overnight treatment in a hospital.
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The odds are overwhellingly in your favor but still makes you think.
[Edited 6/22/07 10:30am]

I don't like those rides. I use to work in a lawyers office and a case came in where the praents wre suing the amusement park because theier little girl was on a ride and here hair got caught and it tore her scalp from her head, they are dangerous people!

OK, I hate those drop rides anyway. Never even thiking about it ..... again!

Did she lose her feet or her legs? it says both in the article!

wlcm2thdwn said:

i am sooooo scared of that happening to me 'cause i have long hair. augh. i love rides that drop like that, too.

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

It appears at the time of the printing of the article that she was in "surgery"

I can only hope it was to reattach the legs, though I doubt the road to recovery, what ever that entails here, will be easy.


Tragic.

And scary.


I'm a huge thrill ride fan.

evenstar3 said:

I hate them. I have the most irrational fear of them, althought rationality is setting in right quick in this thread

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

rollercoasters freak me out sometimes (like X at magic mountain? NEVER AGAIN), but i like feeling my stomach drop and not knowing what's going to happen.

evenstar3 said:

I don't go on any of those rides because I am afraid of them. I have long hair too. I don't want my scalp ripped off

Damn... I was at Six Flags in NJ (Great Adventures) last saturday.. had a great time and rode everything.... I'm sorry to hear that about the girl's foot

XxAxX said:

thats' my phobia also, I am always sure the track is going left, and I am going right!

Too scary

I HATE that ride. That ride in particular has had more accidents than the others. I have never gotten on it because I am not that fond of free fall rides.

XxAxX said:

I get that from temporary carnival rides. Probably because they get assembled and reassembled all the time.

Probably the scariest ride I have seen was at Burning Man. It looks like a simple coaster, but you're in a cage the flips around (I hate those anyway) and as you swing to the other side, flames shoot up at you that you can feel the heat of.

I've neve gone in but I can see it now, as I am screaming and flipping one of the flames catches me on fire. So I'm on fire in the cage and screaming and no one knows I'm on fire cuz they're all high and screaming/laughing themselves. Not good times.

Six Flags better get ready for a massive lawsuit. That girl's medical bills should be taken of for the rest of her life.