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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.

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[–] lapbar@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is my nightmare scenario.

[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

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 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

In some clips, the park staff can be heard through a megaphone asking, "Is everyone doing OK up there?" The crowd of riders shouts back "No!" in near-unison.

"I don't know what I expected" meme

[–] wheeldawg@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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 points 1 year ago

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 points 1 year ago

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.