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Six Flags Closes More Rides After Accident
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| 22 June 2007
Posted on 06/22/2007 7:11:48 PM PDT by Hal1950
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To: KoRn; FreedomCalls
How about this ride at the Stratosphere Tower in Las Vegas, where you are dangled almost 1,000 feet in the air, and spun around at about 40 mph.
Also on this tower, is a ride where you go on a roller-coaster type car, and get sent downward simulating a free fall. On this ride, after one of the trips down, it slowly starts to go back up, and then abruptly starts going down again, to make it feel like the car has lost control and you are about to fall off.
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posted on
06/23/2007 12:53:30 AM PDT
by
hawkeye101
(Liberalism IS a mental disorder. It can only be cured by large doses of common sense and the truth.)
To: hawkeye101
Yikes... A picture of true insanity !!
To: zwerni
im sorry but doesnt that mean she DID have legs? when two negatives are combined... when is the public school system going to start teaching people how to speak?? Yes. At least that's what we were told thirty five years ago. Sometimes with a ruler to the head. As expensive as it is for them not to teach, I'd hate to see the bill if they were to start.
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posted on
06/23/2007 1:58:04 AM PDT
by
Razz Barry
(Round'em up, send'em home.)
To: Hal1950
“...which lifts passengers 177 feet straight up, then drops them nearly the same distance at speeds reaching 54 mph.”
Many decades ago, they had something very much like this at Coney Island; quite a thrill in its day.
To: FreedomCalls
Fortunately, there has been so much progress with prosthetics, she will be able to walk again.
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posted on
06/23/2007 6:54:43 AM PDT
by
GAB-1955
(being dragged, kicking and screaming, into the Kingdom of Heaven....)
To: I still care
At Disney a while ago some kind of snapping cable hit a woman in the head and killed her. I'm assuming that's what cut off this girl's feet. Steel cables under tension are deadly when they snap.
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posted on
06/23/2007 7:02:18 AM PDT
by
Moonman62
(The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
To: Lijahsbubbe
How do you knw she saw it?
To: Grizzled Bear
When I got up there, the lady, she was just sitting there and she didnt have no legs, Smith said. She didnt have no legs at all. She was just calm, probably in shock from everything.Boo Been Shot!
To: FreedomCalls
A similar ride in Spain.My first response to that picture was, out loud, "Oh no. Hell no."
I hope the girl recovers well. What an unimaginable thing to happen.
To: Half Vast Conspiracy
Boo Been Shot! Oh, lord. My people, my people... I have tears in my eyes.
To: miliantnutcase
I always thought it was a myth that snapping cables could sever limbs.
Think “Weed-Eater.”
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posted on
06/23/2007 10:03:16 AM PDT
by
Grizzled Bear
("Does not play well with others.")
To: Hal1950; Northern Yankee
Wow. I think I have two words, that I think I'll live by from now on.
Terra firma.
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posted on
06/23/2007 10:13:01 AM PDT
by
kstewskis
("Tolerance is what happens when one loses their principles"....Fr. A. Saenz)
To: Hal1950
I used to ride everything at Six Flags over Texas around ‘92 or so when I was in Jr High, but it seems like in the last ten years they’ve gone overboard making these rides “Extreme” to the point I don’t think I could ride any of them, it’s ridiculous.
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posted on
06/23/2007 10:15:28 AM PDT
by
Nomad577
To: Hal1950
Don't believe it. It's just the MSM manufacturing attention-getting news.
Mythbusters assures us it's impossible for a snapped cable to cut through the human body.
(The sarcasm is directed at Mythbusters, not the victim of this tragedy.)
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posted on
06/23/2007 10:22:17 AM PDT
by
LantzALot
(Yes, it’s my opinion. No, it’s not humble.)
To: Half Vast Conspiracy
How do you know she didn’t? :o
To: Moonman62
One of the safety rules I enforce in my house are to always use two hands on a bungee cord. If they slip out of your hand they can snap around and hook you in the eye.
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posted on
06/23/2007 11:33:47 AM PDT
by
I still care
("Remember... for it is the doom of men that they forget" - Merlin, from Excalibur)
To: I still care
If they slip out of your hand they can snap around and hook you in the eye. Actually, the more common scenario is for the wire hook on the end opposite you to straighten out because of the pressure pulling on it. It then becomes a pointy-tipped projectile traveling directly toward the other end of the cord where the pull is coming from.
An acquaintance was securing a load with a bungee and just this thing happened. He lost an eye.
Not a good outcome.
To: zwerni
The man had just witnessed a terrifying tragedy, and you expect him to be able to communicate in a calm and rational manner?
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posted on
06/23/2007 12:50:44 PM PDT
by
trussell
(BOSS spelled backwards is Double SOB)
To: poindexters brother
So he is so weak he can’t say “NO”, but he can ruin the fun for everyone else? Nice guy!
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posted on
06/23/2007 12:57:57 PM PDT
by
trussell
(BOSS spelled backwards is Double SOB)
To: Lijahsbubbe
How do you know she didnt?I don't...just wondering you knew for sure that she did...she may very well have seen the incident of aftermath. I usually don't put a whole lot of faith in "eyewitness accounts."
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