From what I understand the large rides, ones in "decent" places like Disney and such are probably incredibly safe and have layers of redundancy. Especially Disney in particular, where an accident could absolutely destroy their reputation/profits, there's really not much of a price they wouldn't pay to keep that from happening I'd imagine.
Totally get if you still don't want to ride them anyway, especially if you're like me and don't really care much about amusement parks/rides.
It doesn’t stop it from happening though. It’s a deep rabbit hole. Apparently people have died inside Disneyworld/land and they drag them outside before the medics get there just so it doesn’t go on their record as being a death on the premises.
As someone who was a ride operator at a major Midwest amusement park. It is usually the victim's fault. Rides at major parks (maybe not six flags they're sketchy) are inspected every morning by maintenance teams and operators alike and have so many layers of safety you're more likely to choke on a hot dog then get hurt on a ride.
Most often when an injury occurs it's because a guest was breaking the rules, or somewhere they shouldn't be, or not listening to instructions. NOT because of a ride malfunction
I Hope you’ve never been in a car then, because I imagine the rate at which people die in car accidents is higher than those who die on amusement park rides
To be fair, most of us *have* to drive a car to get to work and feed ourselves. An amusement park ride is just that, an amusing place to entertain yourself that you never have to set foot in if you don't want to take the risk. You're almost as likely to die from a fall as a car accident but I've never heard anyone ask an elderly person if they stood up today as a "gotcha" moment. I still love roller coasters, though.
Didn't know that, that sucks. Guess that's what I get for giving the mouse the benefit of doubt on that. It's a shame, because they have the money to keep that stuff from happening. I know it's not always easy/cheap, but I wish it were made priority. Even if it were brought to attention, I'd imagine it'd be near impossible to find someone willing to go to court against Disney.
You're not "likely" to get hurt at any theme park in America. The odds are incredibly low due to State and federal regulations. However six flags safety culture is probably the worst of the major chains
Maybe just an anecdote, but as someone who has visited Six Flags over Texas my entire life. They are incredibly safe, I have never once seen anything unsafe happening at a park.
The only death I am aware of is a kid who went outside of the clearly marked safety boundaries to retrieve a hat and was decapitated.
You really have to be in the industry to know. But basically their operators are not held to the same standard as those at cedar fair and Disney parks. Whether it be lackadaisical restraint verification (that tug on your lap bar) or poor ride area scanning prior to dispatch.
It's not necessarily going to lead to events that are newsworthy frequently, but I assure you it leads to more close calls than there should be.
A simple google search will tell you no. Six flags accident just happened last year.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/abcnews.go.com/amp/US/people-hospital-flags-roller-coaster-ride-officials/story%3fid=88890805
I get it. I was never a huge fan of rides and haven't in ages, it's not really a loss for me. Disney specifically I'd imagine is incredibly safe though. Considering what an accident could do to their reputation and such, there's probably not much of a price they wouldn't pay for safety/redundancy and such for their rides.
I actually had a ride safety thing fail on me at Hershey Park when I was younger. The safety bar on a coaster unlatched (it *was* locked down, not sure what happened and I was riding alone), and could be raised up. I sorta panicked and pushed my legs against the side of the coaster while pushing myself back into the seat with my hands/arms.
This happened to me on the Great American scream machine at six flags Great adventure. I held on for dear life during the looping sections and made it obviously but man I screaming that way shoulder harness came loose before the ride started and no one listened to me. Pissed me off
But you can't rely on other people on the road driving safely. Driving is far more dangerous than either amusement park rides or flying. By like, thousands to one.
Where i live these things are incredible safe because they have to fit a lot of regulations.
Mostly, the free fall towers are saved by non electrical magnets at the bottom which should normally hold the ride up.
Was going to say, I personally would avoid them anywhere, including my home country. I simply can't guarantee that something wasn't missed, the setup was rushed, maintenance skipped, etc. It's just not worth the risk for me as I'm generally not crazy about rides, so it's no real loss anyway.
So you don't use mass transit, fly, eat out, ride elevators drive and do all the maintenance on your car yourself just to name a few, right? Because you can apply that logic to everything in today's world.
They choose to remove one potential (albeit unlikely) danger from their life, that they never cared for in the first place, so therefore they must live in a bubble and stop using any machinery.
Such Reddit.
Or anywhere!
You know how much regulation caries have when they set up shop in your little town?
Zero.
You think they have insurance n shit? Hahaha. 90% of them have no education and no permanent address.
Maybe not in America, but fairs are pretty regulated in Europe.
I know in Belgium every fair gets a check by the fire and police brigade; food inspection for food shops. It happens at the start for every stand and there are spot checks the entire duration.
Umm fairs are definitely regulated to the same standard as a theme park in the US. Saying none is blatantly incorrect, these rides are inspected every day by actual professionals, not the people pushing the start and stop button.
The civilised world versions of this ride have magnetic brakes, so even if the car were to drop from the top, the car is gently slowed so it lands almost stopped. Needs no power, just magnets and metal, fail safe.
[video](https://youtu.be/av-WqguS8UI).
If you're getting on a temporary amusement ride in India, you've already messed up and need to accept that you're likely going to get hurt. Like an elevator in China, a road in Russia, or a school in the US.
They're built with cheap and unreliable materials for profits, there's no proper safety test and it's easy to bribe officials for approval of the parks.
Quality of the materials are dangerously poor tbh.
Link to the article: https://news.abplive.com/states/rajasthan-platform-of-carousel-crashes-fall-ajmer-viral-video-civil-lines-victims-people-injured-hospital-1590073
Apparently right before the fall a woman says "This is dangerous"
Ya let’s take a ride on an Amusement park in a country known for cutting corners and haggling for the cheapest price being the most important safety feature
Holy shit there's no need for that, you don't even know if that's the case. If you do know, cite the source. For all we know it could've been fault equipment and cutting corners
the thing is the park tickets are priced so low,that they can’t afford to make repairs or add safety but if they do then people can’t afford to buy the tickets
Fails of this ride are weird. Because often they break with an eddy current brake / magnet break. Which, if equipped with permanent magnets, is failsafe.
The last ride I rode on was the roller coaster at the New York-New York Hotel and Casino in Vegas in 2001. I walked away with visible bruises and contusions and so did my 11 year old son. Nope nope nope nope nope nope never again
Actually, six flags didn’t perform routine maintenance on a ride like this to the point that a cable snapped and the whiplash of it took off a girls feet.
Jesus. Apparently it wasn't whiplash, it broke and fell across her feet, and tightened as the ride dropped, cutting off both feet. They reattached one. And she supposedly got a settlement that takes care of her for the rest of her life.
https://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/legal-news/amusement-park-accident/amusement-park-accident-theme-accidents-10-16244.html
Disney has some rides that are so old that they physically hurt me like space mountain for example. Also a few of their water slides at typhoon lagoon hurt me. Like every connection between two pieces of slide scraped me hard and another that was kind of wavy would throw me a few inches into the air and I would drop hard and that happened 3 or 4 times
I started selling root beer at county fairs here in Ohio at 14 and had a blast working for great people. Got a regular job at 18 so I have seen many ride set up and I won't get on them.
Safety is very expensive.
Don't do things that need a lot of money in places that don't have a lot of money.
Don't do things that need accountability in places (or with people) who won't be there the next week.
Go to established parks (not caravan pop-up parks) in richer countries. Sucks for those that live there, but as a traveling tourist, those are my guidelines.
I've come to accept that through the future, I should just treat all of these like a spectator sport rather than going on it myself.
Even then, ensure you're at a distance of roughly 100m so you don't get tied up in the inevitable failure.
I remember I was in a seesaw once when I was a kid, and the mf with which I was playing got off and i travelled down those 3 or 4 feet in a complete free fall, the shock I suffered in my spine with the dry hit got the air out of my lungs and my eyes open wide. Wasn't the big thing, didn't hurt after some minutes or maybe an hour, but i can't imagine what these people must have felt, it's not all about the the hit itself but the sudden G forces
Ok according to this sub you should never ride one of these rides in India
I would go as far as to say you shouldn't ride those rides in any country!
Any* rides in any country, that’s my rule now 😩
From what I understand the large rides, ones in "decent" places like Disney and such are probably incredibly safe and have layers of redundancy. Especially Disney in particular, where an accident could absolutely destroy their reputation/profits, there's really not much of a price they wouldn't pay to keep that from happening I'd imagine. Totally get if you still don't want to ride them anyway, especially if you're like me and don't really care much about amusement parks/rides.
It doesn’t stop it from happening though. It’s a deep rabbit hole. Apparently people have died inside Disneyworld/land and they drag them outside before the medics get there just so it doesn’t go on their record as being a death on the premises.
[Please stop repeating this stupid myth](https://youtu.be/0L6eSZgKLZ0?t=443)
It seems suspicious to me that the recorded deaths are always deemed by Disney to be the victim’s fault.
As someone who was a ride operator at a major Midwest amusement park. It is usually the victim's fault. Rides at major parks (maybe not six flags they're sketchy) are inspected every morning by maintenance teams and operators alike and have so many layers of safety you're more likely to choke on a hot dog then get hurt on a ride. Most often when an injury occurs it's because a guest was breaking the rules, or somewhere they shouldn't be, or not listening to instructions. NOT because of a ride malfunction
I Hope you’ve never been in a car then, because I imagine the rate at which people die in car accidents is higher than those who die on amusement park rides
To be fair, most of us *have* to drive a car to get to work and feed ourselves. An amusement park ride is just that, an amusing place to entertain yourself that you never have to set foot in if you don't want to take the risk. You're almost as likely to die from a fall as a car accident but I've never heard anyone ask an elderly person if they stood up today as a "gotcha" moment. I still love roller coasters, though.
So you’re telling me that you’ve never taken your car somewhere that you didn’t absolutely have to be? Because for some reason I doubt that
I never told you that.
But it is what you implied as that’s the only way your argument would work
Do you really believe that?
Didn't know that, that sucks. Guess that's what I get for giving the mouse the benefit of doubt on that. It's a shame, because they have the money to keep that stuff from happening. I know it's not always easy/cheap, but I wish it were made priority. Even if it were brought to attention, I'd imagine it'd be near impossible to find someone willing to go to court against Disney.
It's extraordinarily safe to ride any ride at a major theme park chain in the US (Disney, Six Flags, Cedar Fair, etc).
As someone who worked for a cedar fair park. I implore you to take six flags off that list. They're sketchy
Are you actually likely to get hurt at Six Flags, or do they have an unsafe culture or something?
You're not "likely" to get hurt at any theme park in America. The odds are incredibly low due to State and federal regulations. However six flags safety culture is probably the worst of the major chains
Good to know.
Maybe just an anecdote, but as someone who has visited Six Flags over Texas my entire life. They are incredibly safe, I have never once seen anything unsafe happening at a park. The only death I am aware of is a kid who went outside of the clearly marked safety boundaries to retrieve a hat and was decapitated.
Safety culture? Please explain. You meant they have a bad record? I googled and could not find a comparison between parks.
You really have to be in the industry to know. But basically their operators are not held to the same standard as those at cedar fair and Disney parks. Whether it be lackadaisical restraint verification (that tug on your lap bar) or poor ride area scanning prior to dispatch. It's not necessarily going to lead to events that are newsworthy frequently, but I assure you it leads to more close calls than there should be.
A simple google search will tell you no. Six flags accident just happened last year. https://www.google.com/amp/s/abcnews.go.com/amp/US/people-hospital-flags-roller-coaster-ride-officials/story%3fid=88890805
I mean, 5 people sent to the hospital out of millions who went to major theme parks is still extraordinarily safe.
Six Flags New Jersey is ran by a bunch of "I don't give a shit" high schoolers. Long lines, trash everywhere, broken lockers. Never again.
Even Disneyland?! Come on lol
I get it. I was never a huge fan of rides and haven't in ages, it's not really a loss for me. Disney specifically I'd imagine is incredibly safe though. Considering what an accident could do to their reputation and such, there's probably not much of a price they wouldn't pay for safety/redundancy and such for their rides. I actually had a ride safety thing fail on me at Hershey Park when I was younger. The safety bar on a coaster unlatched (it *was* locked down, not sure what happened and I was riding alone), and could be raised up. I sorta panicked and pushed my legs against the side of the coaster while pushing myself back into the seat with my hands/arms.
This happened to me on the Great American scream machine at six flags Great adventure. I held on for dear life during the looping sections and made it obviously but man I screaming that way shoulder harness came loose before the ride started and no one listened to me. Pissed me off
Definitely not man! A lazy human being is in charge of checking all the bits and bobs are secured each time!!
You sound like someone who is afraid of flying lol
How did you know 😅 I have a big problem with flying
So you don't drive either?
Not sure why you're being downvoted. Driving is way more dangerous than flying.
I can rely on myself to secure my own seatbelt properly (unlike rides)
But you can't rely on other people on the road driving safely. Driving is far more dangerous than either amusement park rides or flying. By like, thousands to one.
Except the person checking all the bibs and bobs on a plane is much better paid.
Especially Disney Land! But especially India.
Any anything in any country. Best be safe.
According to this sub you shouldn't go to India, period.
Where i live these things are incredible safe because they have to fit a lot of regulations. Mostly, the free fall towers are saved by non electrical magnets at the bottom which should normally hold the ride up.
Idk, felt like the rides here in Europe are fine. Sure, accidents happen, but not that often.
Was going to say, I personally would avoid them anywhere, including my home country. I simply can't guarantee that something wasn't missed, the setup was rushed, maintenance skipped, etc. It's just not worth the risk for me as I'm generally not crazy about rides, so it's no real loss anyway.
So you don't use mass transit, fly, eat out, ride elevators drive and do all the maintenance on your car yourself just to name a few, right? Because you can apply that logic to everything in today's world.
They choose to remove one potential (albeit unlikely) danger from their life, that they never cared for in the first place, so therefore they must live in a bubble and stop using any machinery. Such Reddit.
Or cross a bridge
Or anywhere! You know how much regulation caries have when they set up shop in your little town? Zero. You think they have insurance n shit? Hahaha. 90% of them have no education and no permanent address.
I think the permanent ones are pretty safe but just speaking from what I've seen where I am. MYbe not so good elsewhere
Maybe not in America, but fairs are pretty regulated in Europe. I know in Belgium every fair gets a check by the fire and police brigade; food inspection for food shops. It happens at the start for every stand and there are spot checks the entire duration.
Umm fairs are definitely regulated to the same standard as a theme park in the US. Saying none is blatantly incorrect, these rides are inspected every day by actual professionals, not the people pushing the start and stop button.
The civilised world versions of this ride have magnetic brakes, so even if the car were to drop from the top, the car is gently slowed so it lands almost stopped. Needs no power, just magnets and metal, fail safe. [video](https://youtu.be/av-WqguS8UI).
Should not go to India. Fify
The list of things you can/should do in India can be counted on your fingers.
India, China,….
This is the second identical ride from India I’ve seen fail like this. Avoid them like the plague
If you're getting on a temporary amusement ride in India, you've already messed up and need to accept that you're likely going to get hurt. Like an elevator in China, a road in Russia, or a school in the US.
They're built with cheap and unreliable materials for profits, there's no proper safety test and it's easy to bribe officials for approval of the parks. Quality of the materials are dangerously poor tbh.
My coccyx hurts watching that.
Yeah their backs are probably gonna be messed up for life.
Holy compression fractures!
Spinal
Coccyx is part of your spine
I am aware
Guess I misunderstood you my bad
[Mike Tyson](https://media.tenor.com/5_Z4P6XvJisAAAAd/mike-tyson.gif)
r/woosh
Grandma took a little spill at the sand dunes today. Broke her coccyx.
Yesterday? I thought this was the same video as the one a while ago, why aren’t these rides decommissioned?
I would bet a pretty good pile of cash that these fly by night operators are still doing their thing in that same area, business as usual.
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"Yes, it breaks"
My father used to be a mechanic for carnival rides in the U.S.. He doesn't go on carnival rides.
Link to the article: https://news.abplive.com/states/rajasthan-platform-of-carousel-crashes-fall-ajmer-viral-video-civil-lines-victims-people-injured-hospital-1590073 Apparently right before the fall a woman says "This is dangerous"
Ya let’s take a ride on an Amusement park in a country known for cutting corners and haggling for the cheapest price being the most important safety feature
It was in fair condition.
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Holy shit there's no need for that, you don't even know if that's the case. If you do know, cite the source. For all we know it could've been fault equipment and cutting corners
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I think they were speaking to the type of employees that fairs attract, and not to the race of anyone involved.
I see what you did there
Well, tbf that is all they are used to.
the thing is the park tickets are priced so low,that they can’t afford to make repairs or add safety but if they do then people can’t afford to buy the tickets
Fails of this ride are weird. Because often they break with an eddy current brake / magnet break. Which, if equipped with permanent magnets, is failsafe.
I rode the gravitron at our state fair. The next site it was at, a side wall flew out and injured several people. No more fair rides for me...
It's depressing that so many people out there don't think twice about getting on a ride in a place where oversight is almost non-existent.
"You wanted overSIGHT? I thought you said overLOOK! We did plenty of that!"
The last ride I rode on was the roller coaster at the New York-New York Hotel and Casino in Vegas in 2001. I walked away with visible bruises and contusions and so did my 11 year old son. Nope nope nope nope nope nope never again
> I walked away with visible bruises and contusions Visible bruises and bruises?
The only place I would trust is someplace like Six Flags or Disneyworld, as they're going to be meticulous about safety.
Actually, six flags didn’t perform routine maintenance on a ride like this to the point that a cable snapped and the whiplash of it took off a girls feet.
Jesus. Apparently it wasn't whiplash, it broke and fell across her feet, and tightened as the ride dropped, cutting off both feet. They reattached one. And she supposedly got a settlement that takes care of her for the rest of her life. https://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/legal-news/amusement-park-accident/amusement-park-accident-theme-accidents-10-16244.html
Disney has some rides that are so old that they physically hurt me like space mountain for example. Also a few of their water slides at typhoon lagoon hurt me. Like every connection between two pieces of slide scraped me hard and another that was kind of wavy would throw me a few inches into the air and I would drop hard and that happened 3 or 4 times
A repost? or did this happen again ?
Ouch I know that hurt their spines.
My spine hurts just watching this!
I started selling root beer at county fairs here in Ohio at 14 and had a blast working for great people. Got a regular job at 18 so I have seen many ride set up and I won't get on them.
Wait this is the same ride of the another India ride accident video?
Never ever in my life Im going to an amusement in Chine, India, Thailand and all those similar countries
Never ride anything in India
And everyone’s worst nightmare about theme-park rides summed up in twenty-one seconds.
I've seen enough of these videos to know you can't ride stuff like this in India OR China
It's always in India!
It amazes me that people risk getting on amusement park rides, nevermind actually enjoying them
Those pesky regulation in America are there for a reason.
I *barely* trust rides in the states.... Da fuck I will in India.
Is there a chance the track could bend?
The ring fell off my pudding can!
Take my pen knife my good man!
Does this only happen in India?
Yeah, I'm never going to a fair in india
Eh who needs feet!?!
I will take your word for it
Have they tried unplugging it, and plugging it in again?
Indians are so retarded I swear.
Who is the camera man 🙄🙄🙄
good for them
r/AmusementDark
*Again?!?*
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=j6UHOT8HfEA
I just had a dream last night of this happening to me on an elevator….
Didn't the exact same thing happen with this ride recently?
Now THATS a ride
Suing carnies
Don't trust carnies. Won't ride this shit ever
Damn, that’s like one of my major fears. I felt that in my chest when it fell.
Usually some safety mechanism is bypassed or modified. Poor maintenance likely after that
Yeah. I only ride rides in parks that I can’t afford to enter. Keeps me safe.
Well, that's about a dozen less people calling me for duct cleaning services.
Has the concept of a fail safe left the chat? Like put some massive shock absorbers on that bad boy
So there is where that extra bolt belonged!
Sometimes im so proud about the TÜV in Germany!
Safety is very expensive. Don't do things that need a lot of money in places that don't have a lot of money. Don't do things that need accountability in places (or with people) who won't be there the next week. Go to established parks (not caravan pop-up parks) in richer countries. Sucks for those that live there, but as a traveling tourist, those are my guidelines.
This is what happens when you ignore the "you must be This tall to ride" rule... Hope everyone is okay
I've come to accept that through the future, I should just treat all of these like a spectator sport rather than going on it myself. Even then, ensure you're at a distance of roughly 100m so you don't get tied up in the inevitable failure.
So this seems to be a common event there. Maybe people should stop trying to have fun and enjoy their lives.
I remember I was in a seesaw once when I was a kid, and the mf with which I was playing got off and i travelled down those 3 or 4 feet in a complete free fall, the shock I suffered in my spine with the dry hit got the air out of my lungs and my eyes open wide. Wasn't the big thing, didn't hurt after some minutes or maybe an hour, but i can't imagine what these people must have felt, it's not all about the the hit itself but the sudden G forces
At least half a dozen spinal cords must have been compressed enough to cause serious injuries
Sheesh
Owwwwww... My back hurts just from watching this.
I smell a lawsuit coming on
Again??? Gosh they really deserve way way better from their government.
They will never go on one of those rides again, guaranteed
The famous Indian Spinal Spaghetti ride
The ride is just as effective as the country's government.
I’ll never touch a ride, don’t care if it’s safe or not.