I think this is an almost exact copy of the ride. You can see how vulnerable the feet of the riders are if a cable were to snap.
Posted on 06/21/2007 7:19:07 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
(CBS) LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- A girl's feet were cut off Thursday at Six Flags' Kentucky Kingdom, police confirmed to Louisville, Ky., TV station WLKY.
Police said they got the call around 5 p.m. Thursday. Both of the girl's feet were detached at the ankle.
According to MetroSafe dispatch supervisors, the girl was riding the Superman Tower of Power, which is 177 feet tall and drops riders at 54 mph. According to Kentucky Kingdom, the girl was injured when the ride malfunctioned.
OMG! How horrible!
I rode that ride two weeks ago with my little cousin. I’m not sure how that could have happened, unless somehow a stray wire came loose.
A longer version. The witnesses are speaking English, but I can’t understand most of what they’re saying.
http://www.wlky.com/news/13547817/detail.html
I'm guessing they built that ride two feet at a time.
Treva Smith said it snapped again as the ride descended.“The people on the ride just came and hit the ground,” Smith said.
“As the ride came down, the wire swung left, struck the young lady on the back side of my children,” Williams said.
“When I got up there, the lady, she was just sitting there and she didn’t have no legs,” Smith said. “She didn’t have no legs at all. She was just calm, probably in shock from everything.”
“My son’s over there tripping out man,” Williams said. “You want to come to a park and feel safe you know. We’ve got season passes. We’re not coming back for sure.”
“Every park, one in a million maybe something happens,” park visitor Kenneth Lay said. “But I have no fear.”
Target-rich environment.
It's Louisville, right? They speak differently. (I was born there.)
The tip off is when you ask them where they're from. Outsiders would pronounce it, "Loo-ee-ville."
Native Louisvillians say, "Luval."
Their speech goes down hill from there.
Verbal utterances don’t count as Typso. (If it wasn’t such a dreadful situation, I’d have spit coffee on the keyboard at “struck the young lady on the back side of my children.”)
There’s something suspicious afoot here.
were they reattached?
I think they said a cable broke. As horrible as it was it could have been worse.
I think this is an almost exact copy of the ride. You can see how vulnerable the feet of the riders are if a cable were to snap.
How children lost the right to roam in four generations
Daily Mail (UK) | 15th June 2007 | DAVID DERBYSHIRE
Posted on 06/22/2007 2:43:38 PM EDT by fgoodwin
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1854722/posts
Ken Lay? I thought he was dead!
Sorri. My mystak.
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