Bet she was under the height limit.
Mention of prayer at all in the article is conspicuously absent. I wonder if that’s the standard now in New Jersey.
Never place your 10 year old child’s life in the hands of a carnival worker.
“Height Requirements and Rider Restrictions
Must be 36” tall or taller to ride.
Under 48” requires an adult.”
Wisdom Super Sizzler
I blame Newton.
Prayers up for this little girl and her family.
That said, I hate those rides with the white hot intensity of a thousand suns!
My sister and I were on some sort of ride once and she was so scared she screamed so much they had to stop the ride, LOL!
Let’s see:
Open Water where I cannot see the shore - Nope
Caving - Nope
Grasshoppers - Nope
Crazy Wild Carny Rides - Nope
Carnies - Double Nope!
If I’m at the Fair, I’m in the animal barns. ;)
Always make sure the bar locks.
Brings back vivid memories. When I was a pre-teen, I rode the scrambler ride outside a local Houston grocery store. An elementary-age child whom I didn’t know was put into the seat beside me. He was crying and was making moves to jump out. I tried to stop him but he did fall out of the ride. I was interviewed by the Houston newspaper at the time at the local hospital very close by but as I recall he wasn’t seriously injured.
It opened in 1904 and closed in 1967. It was the Golden Age of Amusement Parks !
The ride consisted of two people strapped in a belted plank seat which was attached to a large white open parachute. They were lifted slowly to the top of a very, very high metal tower where the top of their parachute made some kind of release contact...and they were suddenly and quickly dropped down, screaming all the way, to terra firma with the huge white parachute taut above them. Of course, at all times the ride was connected in some way to the tower, but the seat swung loose high above the ground. I had been up in a prior visit to the park.....and it was a breathtakingly SCARY ride.
It was a windy Chicago night, my parents got onto the ride while I watched from below.....and somehow the mechanism on their seat didn't release at the top of the tower. There they were, stuck on top, sitting with legs dangling on the small plank, swaying back and forth, frightened to death, while I watched in fear and trepidation from the ground. I had been on the Chutes in a prior visit to the park, and while the view was spectacular, it was a SCARY ride.
The workers finally got the chute to make contact with the release mechanism after the longest forty-five minutes on record, and down came my folks, ashen-faced and shaken.....to a great cheer from the gathered crowd, and to hugs from a very relieved daughter !
Leni
Poor kid. RIP.