The oscillating Lumberjack ride at Canada's Wonderland theme park stopped suddenly, in mid-air, on Sunday. Videos posted to social media captured the sounds of passengers crying for help.
Ride passengers rescued after dangling upside down, 75 feet up, for half an hour
https://www.npr.org/2023/09/25/1201476062/wonderland-lumberjack-ride-stuck-canada
6 Comments
lapbar@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y
This is my nightmare scenario.
Fredselfish@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y
No mines the roaring rapids in Six Flags of Texas. Few years ago one filped over and 4 people drowned.
atx_aquarian@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
"I don't know what I expected" meme
wheeldawg@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 2y
Why do we (read: humans) allow rides to not have way access to exits at all times? Even a retractable thing of some sort should be required to be able to reach any point on a ride.
parrot-party@kbin.social · 6 pts · 2y
There's simply no way to build in a backup system here. It wasn't a matter of getting them down but getting them out of their seats without falling. Even if it had a roof, you can't open the seats and have users dump out. Could easily kill someone
Transcendant@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
I got an inversion device couple of years back during the throes of an insanely-painful suspected herniated disc. The instructions were very clear that full inversion was not to last any longer than 5 minutes as it could be extremely dangerous.
Can't imagine doing 30 mins, with no previous exposure or training, fuuuuuck.