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28 riders stuck upside down on amusement park ride for about 30 minutes
(www.washingtonpost.com)
Well that's terrifying.
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It’s only about one minute per rider.
And once again, much to the chagrin of my wife and daughter, I'm standing my by conviction of never getting on any of those sorts of rides.
To be fair, your odds of being seriously injured in a car are insanely higher that an amusement park ride. The odds of serious injury on an amusement park ride are crazy low.
Unfair comparison. Put as many people in amusement park rides as there are in cars any given day and you’d see those numbers skew towards something a bit more realistic.
These people weren’t injured though.
Someone did go to the hospital, but my main point is that rides at these rides are very very safe, and waking up and driving to work is much more dangerous than a ride at a Six Flags.
Okay, but I don't want to be safely stuck upside-down either. I get that a car is more likely to kill me, but I generally drive somewhere for a purpose as well.
My spouse and I were on the Universal Studios Escape from Gringotts 4-D ride. We got stuck, thankfully not upside down. But we were at an angle that had me leaning back, but at angled left (think of someone standing in front of you and pushing you to the 7 PM clock position - you’re falling backward at an angle, but not upside down). In theory, that would be fine for most people, but I recently finished a vertigo episode about two months before that left me still with lingering effects. I struggled really hard to do everything I could to not trigger it again or puke on anyone. Considering there was a massive 3-D screen in front of me as well, and just everything about that moment was so nauseating.
It took maintenance almost 40 minutes to fix whatever problem it was and get the ride working. Decided from that point on to never go on that ride again.
Haven’t been to a theme park since.
Edit:
Sorry if my language here is not articulate, I’ve not been awake for too long and pretty tired.
That really sucks, sorry to hear it. I was never huge on theme parks to begin with, but I'll go on some rides. Ones that go upside-down? Forget it.
It’s all good as it could’ve been worse - now it’s a cool memory, but certainly one I do not want to relive :)
In my younger days I loved rollercoasters with brief moments you go upside down. Can’t do that stuff anymore. When I told people about my vertigo and how I couldn’t do those rides, they always just said “take a motion sickness pill, you’ll just be dizzy. Come on!”
Heh. They never had vertigo. That’s like people thinking a migraine is the equivalent of “a really bad headache”.
First issue it’s had since 2001. That’s really good!
Being stuck upside down would suck but it’s not life threatening and you got a story to tell people. Better then a getting stuck in an elevator story
I would much rather be stuck in an elevator than stuck upside-down while strapped into a seat.
My head hurts just thinking about this.
Saw this on TikTok right after it happened, from two separate attendees. First was from the ground, and the second was a dude in a Ferris wheel watching the power die and realizing they were all stuck.
Unrelated to the content and scary situation itself, just a general media commentary, why is that WaPo article using a tiny AM radio quality image? It seems many online media companies still live in the age of paper publishing. Now, an image like that converted to CMYK @ 170dpi and run through a Panther would end up looking passable on newsprint, even blown up a bit.
It's the Internet future, publish better quality photos. Yet the media wonders why they died. So many thousands of cuts like this.
I imagine WaPo doesn’t have people in random Oregon towns, so they have to take what they can get for photos investors like these
True, but AP newswire internal or social media can probably deliver something. It's just annoyingly common that they don't use larger images in a lot of news. Colorado Sun is a good example of getting with the times.
They wanted thrill, they got thrill. And at no extra cost!