Ferris Wheel.... of DEATH!

Morrigoon · 08-13-2007, 09:56 AM

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20248185/

DreadPirateRoberts · 08-13-2007, 10:10 AM

I always imagine this happening when I'm on the sun wheel. I'm sorry it happened in real life.

CoasterMatt · 08-13-2007, 10:14 AM

Korea's doing well at maiming/killing off guests at carnivals this season.

alphabassettgrrl · 08-13-2007, 11:38 AM

Ooops. The sun wheel worries me because there's water under it. If a car falls I can't get out. I'll have to take a look and see if there's something I'd be able to dismantle to get out.

cirquelover · 08-13-2007, 11:54 AM

How sadly tragic. I find it amazing that the 70 yr old managed to hang on though.

flippyshark · 08-13-2007, 12:25 PM

This sort of story is always chilling, especially as really no park is immune to such disasters. (Not even Disneyland, obviously.) The more basic and primitive the ride, the more I tend to feel antsy on it. Ferris Wheels always make me nervous. It's especially heartbreaking that a 7 year old boy was killed.

Wow, abgrrl, if you figure out an emergency escape procedure, let me know. The Sun Wheel certainly triggers my most pessimistic imaginings.

Capt Jack · 08-13-2007, 12:56 PM

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Chernabog · 08-13-2007, 01:04 PM

Ugh I will never, ever go on the sun wheel again or any other ferris wheel. I know this was a freak accident, but it gives me the willies to be just HANGING there up in the air.

Roller coasters, freefall drop rides, bring it on. I just can't handle dangling for LONG periods of time.

CoasterMatt · 08-13-2007, 01:10 PM

Um... If a car falls off Sun Wheel, you're falling close to 40 meters in an enclosed steel box, do you really think you're gonna have to worry about getting out in a few feet of water?

Seriously, though - Sun Wheel at DCA is a big tubular steel beast of a machine, there are redundancies upon redundancies designed into the closures of it's gondolas, and it's inspected (both X-ray and nondestructive particle testing of welds) more often than any bridge in the U.S. I'd put my money on a catastrophic failure of that horrible parking structure before any ride at DCA.

(I'm not kidding about being more afraid of the parking structure than any of the rides, either).

Morrigoon · 08-13-2007, 01:19 PM

Up until the major refurb the Matterhorn was pretty hairy as far as the structure was concerned too.

I'm going to venture a guess that their standards for safety aren't what ours are.

08-13-2007, 09:56 AM	#1
Morrigoon I throw stones at houses Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Location: Location Posts: 9,534	Ferris Wheel.... of DEATH! http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20248185/ __________________ http://bash.org/?top "It is useless for sheep to pass a resolution in favor of vegetarianism while wolves remain of a different opinion." -- William Randolph Inge
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DreadPirateRoberts Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 2,483	I always imagine this happening when I'm on the sun wheel. I'm sorry it happened in real life.
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CoasterMatt BRAAAAAAAINS! Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: One Step Beyond... Posts: 8,802	Korea's doing well at maiming/killing off guests at carnivals this season. __________________ Do you like my photography? Visit photosbymatt.tumblr.com to purchase prints!
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alphabassettgrrl Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 4,978	Ooops. The sun wheel worries me because there's water under it. If a car falls I can't get out. I'll have to take a look and see if there's something I'd be able to dismantle to get out. __________________ Why cycling? Anything [sport] that had to do with a ball, I wasn't very good at. -Lance Armstrong
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cirquelover Cruising around in my automobile... Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Oregon Posts: 2,617	How sadly tragic. I find it amazing that the 70 yr old managed to hang on though.
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flippyshark Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Orlando, FL Posts: 2,852	This sort of story is always chilling, especially as really no park is immune to such disasters. (Not even Disneyland, obviously.) The more basic and primitive the ride, the more I tend to feel antsy on it. Ferris Wheels always make me nervous. It's especially heartbreaking that a 7 year old boy was killed. Wow, abgrrl, if you figure out an emergency escape procedure, let me know. The Sun Wheel certainly triggers my most pessimistic imaginings.
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Chernabog Biophage Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: The Moon Posts: 2,679	Ugh I will never, ever go on the sun wheel again or any other ferris wheel. I know this was a freak accident, but it gives me the willies to be just HANGING there up in the air. Roller coasters, freefall drop rides, bring it on. I just can't handle dangling for LONG periods of time. __________________ And they say back then our universe Was a coal black egg Until the god inside Burst out and from its shattered shell He made what became the world we know ~ Bjork (Cosmogony)
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08-13-2007, 01:10 PM	#9
CoasterMatt BRAAAAAAAINS! Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: One Step Beyond... Posts: 8,802	Um... If a car falls off Sun Wheel, you're falling close to 40 meters in an enclosed steel box, do you really think you're gonna have to worry about getting out in a few feet of water? Seriously, though - Sun Wheel at DCA is a big tubular steel beast of a machine, there are redundancies upon redundancies designed into the closures of it's gondolas, and it's inspected (both X-ray and nondestructive particle testing of welds) more often than any bridge in the U.S. I'd put my money on a catastrophic failure of that horrible parking structure before any ride at DCA. (I'm not kidding about being more afraid of the parking structure than any of the rides, either). __________________ Do you like my photography? Visit photosbymatt.tumblr.com to purchase prints!
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Morrigoon I throw stones at houses Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Location: Location Posts: 9,534	Up until the major refurb the Matterhorn was pretty hairy as far as the structure was concerned too. I'm going to venture a guess that their standards for safety aren't what ours are. __________________ http://bash.org/?top "It is useless for sheep to pass a resolution in favor of vegetarianism while wolves remain of a different opinion." -- William Randolph Inge
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