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This may be the craziest malfunction of an amusement ride I've ever heard of. The E-stop literally didn't work and maintenance had to disconnect the power from the ride.

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[–] B_noire@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

This is my worst nightmare on any spinning flat ride. I would be projectile vomiting everywhere.

[–] bobkmertz@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Haha..... Honestly the one thing that I always thought would be horrible is an early rollback on one of the Schwarzkopf shuttle loops. I've been told that Laser Loop at Kennywood would take around a half hour of rolling back and forth between the loop and the spike before it came to a stop so the riders could be evac'd. I could handle it for a while but a half hour would not be fun.

[–] Didros@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Pfft, went to article to see the video. It loads for a bit and goes to an ad for Disney World lol

[–] bobkmertz@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Weird.... it played fine for me. But the video doesn't really show anything other than a music express running. The text covers everything they say in the video.