Where would you least like to be stuck?

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CBS 2 New York |

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"Twenty passengers on a Six Flags Great Adventure roller coaster were stranded about 75 feet in the air for nearly an hour Wednesday after a storm knocked out power to the park. Eight riders were stuck in cars upside down, and another 12 were stuck in a sideways position when the outage at 3:30 p.m. cut power to the corkscrew coaster, Batman & Robin: The Chiller. It was 40 minutes before a park crew was able to ease the cars down to a position where passengers were able to walk off... The power outage affected all of the park's roughly 70 rides. But unlike The Chiller, the park's other roller coasters operate by gravity, instead of electric motors."

Yikes!
Being stuck in a lift sounds bad unless you have been stuck
on a roller coaster, sideways.

[Capmaster]

I wonder how many of those folks who were stuck upside down had been drinking heavily before the ride?

[aanaravs]

That is pretty bad, Upside down on a roller coaster !!

[flaninacupboard]

WTF, they don't have backup power?

"Those who have backup generators and those that WILL" i guess...

[gitreel]

Uh.......

Let me think.....

Uh.....no thanks.....

[thecoalman]

I'd rather be stuck on that than being on any ride at all from one of these travelling carnival's. Being around heavy machinery all the time it never ceases to amaze the condition of some of those rides and the people operating them.

I saw a kiddie ride once that was so bad that if it was a piece of machinery I was operating OSHA would have immediatley shut it down and levied a very heavy fine. Then there's toothless Jim the operator that looks like he just got done downing a bottle Mad Dog.

[Faustus]

they had it easy... I'm at work. I'd rather be stuck ont he coaster.

[tekkieman]

I have had that happen to me. First stuck sideways, then having to walk the rails back down to ground level. The ride stopped due to high wind conditions, so now we're walking the rails in high wind! Add to this my paralyzing fear of heights.....

[northcat_8]

they had it easy... I'm at work. I'd rather be stuck ont he coaster.

ABSOLUTELY Flaystus....stick me on the coaster any day.

[Guest]

I'd rather be stuck on that than being on any ride at all from one of these travelling carnival's. Being around heavy machinery all the time it never ceases to amaze the condition of some of those rides and the people operating them.

I saw a kiddie ride once that was so bad that if it was a piece of machinery I was operating OSHA would have immediatley shut it down and levied a very heavy fine. Then there's toothless Jim the operator that looks like he just got done downing a bottle Mad Dog.

I knew this girl in highschool that got knocked up by an one eye carnie

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Hong Kong '85.

I went to the main island to see a new amusement
park. It was still under construction, sea world had no sea, the race
track had no races.. you get the picture. You could either stand in line
for hours to ride The Dragon (a roller coaster) or sit and eat fairy floss
until you threw up.

I spied a ride at the top of the cliff and it was working, so with nothing better to do I went and tried it out. That nobody else was on it
should have sent silent warnings shrilling throughout my brain.
It should have, but it was my useless brain after all.

It looked like a merry go round after an accident. A central spinning column rose and fell with steel cables attached to it.
At the other end of one of the steel cables was me strapped in a chair. On casual observation it just span you around in a circle rising higher and higher
and that was it.

I should have observed closer.

After minutes of blurred images, I heard a distinct mechanical
noise and was flung out over the cliff. You see the bloody thing
detached the steel cable linked to the chair and turned into some sort
of horizontal bungi jump, throwing you over the edge of the cliff.
Every three revolutions I got a birds eye view of the cliff face
dropping down and the rocks far far below.

I was staggering away suffering the worst adrenaline effect I have
ever experienced, when I looked back. Two workers were moving
around the ride, and one put up a sign.

"Closed for Repairs"

This is where I saw my lunch for the second time. No lie.

[Capmaster]

i never would have gotten off the ride because they would have never been able to remove the chair from my ass

[thecoalman]

After minutes of blurred images, I heard a distinct mechanical
noise and was flung out over the cliff. You see the bloody thing
detached the steel cable linked to the chair and turned into some sort
of horizontal bungi jump, throwing you over the edge of the cliff.
Every three revolutions I got a birds eye view of the cliff face
dropping down and the rocks far far below.

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I was on a ride similar to that in New Jersey in small old local park that is now closed. Everthing there looked bad. I have never seen a ride like this before or since. Like yours it was similar to a horizontal ferris wheel. Attached to the wheel were cars with wheels on the bottom like the kind on a dollie that can turn anyway. You had to step down into the car, no doors, no seatbelts either. So this thing starts spinning....fast. Then bam it just let you go they had a tunnel with a jump before it. Besides that there was no controlling it. Down the tunnel you went bouncing off the walls spinning around in circles.

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they would have never been able to remove the chair from my ass

Hehe.. I tell you I was shaking like a leaf.

I have never seen a ride like this before or since.

Great story thecoalman. I doubt that my ride was anywhere near
approaching western safety standards. I have never seen or heard
of it's like again either.

[yoda313]

Hello,

Where would you least like to be stuck?

Hmmm, HERE! Could you imagine if the WHOLE INTERNET WAS JUST THE OFF TOPIC FORUM???? Whew, that would be scary!

Kevin

[DVD_Ripper]

Would hate to be stuck underground in a earthquake setting... something about being buried alive just wigs me out.,

[zzyzzx]

I would least like to be stuck at that place in Africa where they went last week on Amazing Race TV show.

[Treebeard]

Right now I would have to say "work", I just dont want to be here today.

[Guest]

Would hate to be stuck underground in a earthquake setting... something about being buried alive just wigs me out.,

I heard that Christopher Columbus was exumed for sainthood.They found scratches on the inside indicating he was buried alive.They then could not make him a saint since he died in agony.

[flaninacupboard]

exhumed for nothing? how lame!

[stiltman]

I would hate to be stuck in an elevator with a bunch of people the day after I ate a bunch of spicey mexican food.....Well, they would hate it too