Girl's feet severed on fairground ride

Shabadu

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/06/21/six.flags.accident/index.html?eref=rss_topstories

The poor thing is only 16.

bolliwoodi

Shabadu wrote:

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/06/21/six.flags.accident/index.html?eref=rss_topstories

The poor thing is only 16.

1 word

OUCH!!!!!!

Kiith

Nasty....his grammer is horrible :rolleyes:

"I seen the car go up. Then, like, the cable broke, I heard -- pwchh -- and I heard a lot of people screaming," Chris Stinnett, who was at a ride next to the Superman Tower of Power, told WDRB/WMYO.

"The cable went under the car -- and I seen it pull up and hit a lot of people -- and I seen them bring their legs up," Stinnett said

scojones

Ouch! Seriously ouch.

doubtfir3

Couldn't even begin to imagine the pain of that!! Ouch!!

Dun laoire

I'd say she was in so much shock that she didnt feel a thing. Probably hurts now though.

Kiith

Dun laoire wrote:

I'd say she was in so much shock that she didnt feel a thing. Probably hurts now though.

Probably :eek:

Caliden

So did she get them reattached or what?

monkeyfudge

I bet Superman gets off scott free too.

Steve_o

Caliden wrote:

So did she get them reattached or what?

I hope so....that'd be horrible, i can't imagine the pain of that!!!

petes

The park remained open but that ride was shut down.

petes

0ubliette wrote:

one other word...

ka-CHING!!!!

all that compensation will buy her a spankin new pair of falsies, she'll be tapdancin again in no time

Myself, I'd prefer to have my feet.

0ubliette

bolliwoodi wrote:

1 word

OUCH!!!!!!

one other word...

ka-CHING!!!!

all that compensation will buy her a spankin new pair of falsies, she'll be tapdancin again in no time

Kur4mA

jaysus, the poor girl. That's unreal!

It's gonna cost that park a whole lot of dosh to compensate her and to implement a proper system for frequent safety checks on all of their rides.

monkeyfudge

A few years back I was in a haunted house ride in a park in Madrid.

You sat in this big long room with a table laid out for a wedding party... the lights go dim and the bride as a skeleton starts talking to you (it was all in Spanish, so I don't know what it was about) But the seats and the walls are hydraulic and start to shift in a peculiar way to give the impression that the whole room is getting taller...

A pretty cool effect but apparently about a year or so ago a person wasn't seated properly when the ride began and had their head severed.... Now this wouldn't have been quick... this thing moves very, very slowly. And everyone was looking on and screaming and of course the ride operators just thought everyone was enjoying the scary ride as you're supposed to be screaming.

xzanti

monkeyfudge wrote:

A few years back I was in a haunted house ride in a park in Madrid.

You sat in this big long room with a table laid out for a wedding party... the lights go dim and the bride as a skeleton starts talking to you (it was all in Spanish, so I don't know what it was about) But the seats and the walls are hydraulic and start to shift in a peculiar way to give the impression that the whole room is getting taller...

A pretty cool effect but apparently about a year or so ago a person wasn't seated properly when the ride began and had their head severed.... Now this wouldn't have been quick... this thing moves very, very slowly. And everyone was looking on and screaming and of course the ride operators just thought everyone was enjoying the scary ride as you're supposed to be screaming.

Oh Sweet Mother of Christ :eek:

I was in Funderland the day a 12 year old girl died on the "Rollercoaster" if you could call it that (heap of sh1t) apparently she had a heart attack...

I also know a girl who had braids in her hair and she went to Funderland and got on the Roll Over.. its that one that looks like the waltzers but has little 2 person carriages which roll over repeatedly (hence the name) anyway her braids got caught in the overhead mechanics on one of the rolls.. Thankfully for her it was the last roll and she was left with her head stuck, luckily the operative spotted her and shut down the ride.. she had to have her braids cut out to free her but I don't think she really minded she was in so much shock...

Put you off going to fairgrounds really

Mossy Monk

$$$$$$$$

Duggy747

Eurgh! I wonder if they can sow feet back on? (That just sounds ridicilious when you say it in your head)

Mushy

Whoah...I'm confused. Up above, Petes has quoted a message which is down as being posted AFTER his/hers? Just had to say that!

Whoah, that'd seriously hurt like hell. Imagine standing in the queue for the next turn and a foot falls beside you?

mikemac

Terrible for the girl but luckily for her, this happened in America so she'll get compensation

I'd say there's a line of ambulance chasing lawyers outside the hospital right now.

AlmightyCushion

Duggy747 wrote:

Eurgh! I wonder if they can sow feet back on? (That just sounds ridicilious when you say it in your head)

Nah some superglue and a plaster and she'll be back on her feet.:D

neuro-praxis

xzanti wrote:

I was in Funderland the day a 12 year old girl died on the "Rollercoaster" if you could call it that (heap of sh1t) apparently she had a heart attack...

I don't know if you are referring to the same event as me, but a number of years ago my friend took his 13 year old sister to Funderland. She went on a ride where you are enclosed in a little pod that flies aound the place. Tragically, she began to vomit, choked, and died.

I would now never go on any ride where it's enclosed, because that could happen to anyone.

DarkJager

I went on a haunted house ride before in Spain, and nearly died when I realised how horrifically craptastic and piss kissed it was...

Hitchhiker's Guide to...

a tasteless comment from digg.com on this story went:

the real bummer is: she's not tall enough for any of the rides now


/ tastelessness ends, really felt sick for laughing at it

AlmightyCushion

Roundtower2 wrote:

a tasteless comment from digg.com on this story went:

the real bummer is: she's not tall enough for any of the rides now


/ tastelessness ends, really felt sick for laughing at it

Sh!t I couldn't stop laughing at that.

Roundtower2

Roundtower2 wrote:

a tasteless comment from digg.com on this story went:

the real bummer is: she's not tall enough for any of the rides now


/ tastelessness ends, really felt sick for laughing at it

Hahahaha, thats hilarious. Hah hah.

cance

Roundtower2 wrote:

a tasteless comment from digg.com on this story went:

the real bummer is: she's not tall enough for any of the rides now


/ tastelessness ends, really felt sick for laughing at it

great...

now im going to hell.

Schlemm

Heard a story about a free fall type ride in Korea...a girl on it got her hair caught in part of it when she was up the very top and the next thing it shot downwards and her face came off...or so the story goes anyways.

Duggy747

Schlemm wrote:

Heard a story about a free fall type ride in Korea...a girl on it got her hair caught in part of it when she was up the very top and the next thing it shot downwards and her face came off...or so the story goes anyways.

AAAARRGGHH, MENTAL IMAGE OF THAT HAPPENING TO ME!!!! I think she's in the Guinness Book Of Records for the 1st whole successful put-face-back-together thing from top surgeons. The pic showed her entire face and hair on a table and it looked just like a really, really good Halloween mask! Eurgh!!

Schlemm

Duggy747 wrote:

AAAARRGGHH, MENTAL IMAGE OF THAT HAPPENING TO ME!!!! I think she's in the Guinness Book Of Records for the 1st whole successful put-face-back-together thing from top surgeons. The pic showed her entire face and hair on a table and it looked just like a really, really good Halloween mask! Eurgh!!

Ya know when you're on a fairground ride and they take a pic of you??

Now that's a pic I wouldn't want to get afterwards I can tell ya!

Duggy747

Schlemm wrote:

Ya know when you're on a fairground ride and they take a pic of you??

Now that's a pic I wouldn't want to get afterwards I can tell ya!

Ha Ha, I just get this image of 2 people on the photo. One sitting one side enjoying themselves and the other has just a skull for a face. "Is he enjoying himself or is he in pain?"

Get on over here if you never wanna go near rides again:
http://www.rideaccidents.com/

Safe for work

Smellyirishman

Poor girl, and I'm due a trip to Six Flags (NJ) with work in August :eek:.

Shabadu

Kiith wrote:

Nasty....his grammer is horrible :rolleyes:

Grammar. :P

Crazy Christ

she's going to save a fortune on shoes over the years

it's one of those things you'd probably laugh about when your older

wonder if the fairground are going to have to pay millions.. at the end of the day prices
will go up and the taxpayer will end up 'footing' the bill

Karoma

"Superman Tower of Power,"
Next inspired thread in Paranormal: Is the word "Superman" jinxed?!!!11!

Thrill

What a horrible accident. Hopefully they can reattach her feet.
If they cant then she will probably get millions more in compensation.

Karoma

thrill wrote:

What a horrible accident. Hopefully they can reattach her feet.
If they cant then she will probably get millions more in compensation.

6 should be sufficient.

Deliverance

Fairgrounds seem to be a dying breed, literally! I remember when the most dangerous thing about the visiting fair was the possibility of being kicked by the exotic animal ie: the donkey.

The maddest thing I saw recently was a ride on Brighton pier which whipped you into the air over the sea. The sign, contract, on this ride was that in high winds the management is not responsible for potential accidents and you ride at your own risk, due to I presume freak winds. I guess there is no fun in a fairground ride without the potential for getting your feet cut off, or drowing in choppy high sea winds. Go figure.

David Michael

Well done all. Only 7 years.Saw alot tbh. Sadly the humour in some posts is lost me.

Poor child lost her feet.


Never known to be a sentimental but come on.

And i have the lowest morals of the lot of you !

Dutchology

monkeyfudge wrote:

A few years back I was in a haunted house ride in a park in Madrid.

You sat in this big long room with a table laid out for a wedding party... the lights go dim and the bride as a skeleton starts talking to you (it was all in Spanish, so I don't know what it was about) But the seats and the walls are hydraulic and start to shift in a peculiar way to give the impression that the whole room is getting taller...

A pretty cool effect but apparently about a year or so ago a person wasn't seated properly when the ride began and had their head severed.... Now this wouldn't have been quick... this thing moves very, very slowly. And everyone was looking on and screaming and of course the ride operators just thought everyone was enjoying the scary ride as you're supposed to be screaming.

OMG I was on that ride! - The Warner Brothers Movie Park in Madrid! I went there and on that ride several times last year!

/me checks that head is still attached...

WindSock

Ewwww!


















Any Pics of the feet?

Binomate

I laughed out loud at the original link.

JamieGirl182

She'll be set for life. They'll reach some astronomical agreement before she sues. I work for a CBS station and there was all kinds of chatter about this today on the Wire.

Deliverance

I think given the choice I would keep the feet attached at all times. Besides the defending lawyers could argue that she had her feet on the ground at the time of the accident.

Pigman II

When I got up there, the lady she was just sitting there, and she didn't have no legs.

Hmmm, dey done good to get such expert testermoany der.

BTW, has Paul McCartney been made aware of the new talent?

Horrible to hear but (with the exception of Roundtower 2!) I'm surprised there haven't been puns about how she was legless.

Roundtower2

Roundtower2 wrote: »

a tasteless comment from digg.com on this story went:

the real bummer is: she's not tall enough for any of the rides now


/ tastelessness ends, really felt sick for laughing at it

funniest thing i've read today :eek: :pac:


sorry for necro-thread.. shocking story tho

antodeco

If it was only one of her feet, she could have been called Eileen...


/gets coat

antodeco

antodeco wrote: »

If it was only one of her feet, she could have been called Eileen...


/gets coat

ah stay.. we like your humor :rolleyes:

4zn76tysfajdxp

Deleted User wrote: »

ah stay.. we like your humor :rolleyes:

There's no need to be so short with ihm.

razorblunt

I dont know how she's going to sue, she hasnt got a leg to stand on.