Posted on 07/26/2015 3:24:50 PM PDT by markomalley
This is why I’m reluctant to let my kids on these types of rides. I showed them this picture in hopes they now understand.
I went to Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green for four years and never set foot at Beach Bend. I was pretty adventurous otherwise but just never made it to that piece of the Redneck Riviera.
My mind is in the gutter - I read the headline as “topless”
Flying Swings...the one ride my father forbid me over 50 years ago to ever ride. He said he saw one of the swing chains break years before that and throw a lady about 100 feet to her death.
I took his advice and never tried it.
Literally whipped into the ground.
Damn.
I tried the swings. Hated it. I had this fear that the swing would break.
I won’t go near them either.
It’s too easy for one guy to forget to set one last thing right, and then...
Surprisingly, for all the rides out there, this doesn’t happen as often as you would think.
Self medicating this evening?
For the big parks, there are nearly daily inspections of the rides, not to mention a fair amount of engineering before they are even built.
But I don’t know the amount of engineering or inspection that goes on for the smaller parks and traveling carny rides.
I also saw ‘Topless’, and was surprised. I went to college in Columbus, Ohio, a thousand years ago. When taking the Greyhound Bus there from Michigan, there was not a whole lot going on in the surrounding towns, like Tiffin, Findley or Bowling Green. A Topless Beach (i know, dyslexia) would have been talked about.
Must’ve put all the fat kids on one side.
Not yet, why? Want to contribute?
I agree. That’s my take also.
Heh - we traveled some of the same territory. Defiance (on the Ohio side) and I bet we know many of the Michigan and maybe Indiana towns (depending on your bus route).
While en route to Ohio from Michigan, my family and I would pass by a big restaurant, one of a chain, called Stuckey’s Restaurtant. For some reason, it used to make my parents laugh every single time. My mother thought it rather odd to name an eatery “Stuckey”. A good cook doesn’t want food to get stuck. It was always packed with people.
Yes Stuckeys (famous for pecan roll) is a long time interstate tradition, although a shadow of their former self.
Wiki says they’re down to 115 locations from 350 peak.
Wrong Bowling Green. The one in this story is in KY.
I understand that the operator told Chris Christie not to get on but he said that he was governor and he was going to ride no matter what.
Well, guess what happened when the fat slob go on...........?
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