Girl's feet severed on fairground ride

Shabadu · 22-06-2007 04:00AM #1

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

The poor thing is only 16.

bolliwoodi · 22-06-2007 04:13AM

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 · 22-06-2007 09:08AM

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 · 22-06-2007 09:33AM

Ouch! Seriously ouch.

doubtfir3 · 22-06-2007 09:57AM

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

Dun laoire · 22-06-2007 10:04AM

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

Kiith · 22-06-2007 10:05AM

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 · 22-06-2007 10:37AM

So did she get them reattached or what?

monkeyfudge · 22-06-2007 10:41AM

I bet Superman gets off scott free too.

Steve_o · 22-06-2007 10:43AM

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 · 22-06-2007 10:49AM

The park remained open but that ride was shut down.

petes · 22-06-2007 10:50AM

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 · 22-06-2007 10:51AM

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 · 22-06-2007 11:15AM

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 · 22-06-2007 11:27AM

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 · 22-06-2007 11:51AM

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 · 22-06-2007 12:04PM

$$$$$$$$

Duggy747 · 22-06-2007 12:14PM

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

Mushy · 22-06-2007 12:21PM

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 · 22-06-2007 12:21PM

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 · 22-06-2007 12:22PM

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 · 22-06-2007 01:38PM

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 · 22-06-2007 01:41PM

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... · 22-06-2007 02:08PM

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 · 22-06-2007 02:43PM

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.

22-06-2007 03:39PM

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 · 22-06-2007 03:42PM

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 · 22-06-2007 04:13PM

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 · 22-06-2007 04:20PM

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 · 22-06-2007 04:27PM

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 · 22-06-2007 04:33PM

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/

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Girl's feet severed on fairground ride

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