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.

  • wheeldawg@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    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.

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      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

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    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

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    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.