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To be fair, your odds of being seriously injured in a car are insanely higher that an amusement park ride. The odds of serious injury on an amusement park ride are crazy low.
Unfair comparison. Put as many people in amusement park rides as there are in cars any given day and you’d see those numbers skew towards something a bit more realistic.
Someone did go to the hospital, but my main point is that rides at these rides are very very safe, and waking up and driving to work is much more dangerous than a ride at a Six Flags.
Okay, but I don't want to be safely stuck upside-down either. I get that a car is more likely to kill me, but I generally drive somewhere for a purpose as well.
Saw this on TikTok right after it happened, from two separate attendees. First was from the ground, and the second was a dude in a Ferris wheel watching the power die and realizing they were all stuck.
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Well that's terrifying.
It’s only about one minute per rider.
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Math checks out, but something still seems off...
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And once again, much to the chagrin of my wife and daughter, I'm standing my by conviction of never getting on any of those sorts of rides.
To be fair, your odds of being seriously injured in a car are insanely higher that an amusement park ride. The odds of serious injury on an amusement park ride are crazy low.
Unfair comparison. Put as many people in amusement park rides as there are in cars any given day and you’d see those numbers skew towards something a bit more realistic.
These people weren’t injured though.
Someone did go to the hospital, but my main point is that rides at these rides are very very safe, and waking up and driving to work is much more dangerous than a ride at a Six Flags.
Okay, but I don't want to be safely stuck upside-down either. I get that a car is more likely to kill me, but I generally drive somewhere for a purpose as well.
That really sucks, sorry to hear it. I was never huge on theme parks to begin with, but I'll go on some rides. Ones that go upside-down? Forget it.
First issue it’s had since 2001. That’s really good!
Being stuck upside down would suck but it’s not life threatening and you got a story to tell people. Better then a getting stuck in an elevator story
I would much rather be stuck in an elevator than stuck upside-down while strapped into a seat.
Paywall. Boo
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My head hurts just thinking about this.
Saw this on TikTok right after it happened, from two separate attendees. First was from the ground, and the second was a dude in a Ferris wheel watching the power die and realizing they were all stuck.
They wanted thrill, they got thrill. And at no extra cost!
I imagine WaPo doesn’t have people in random Oregon towns, so they have to take what they can get for photos investors like these