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Riders stranded 200 feet in the air on amusement park ride
Associated Press via Star Tribune ^
| 6/19/02
Posted on 06/19/2002 9:46:18 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
Edited on 04/13/2004 3:36:35 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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ATLANTA -- A ride at Six Flags over Georgia really lived up to its name on Tuesday.
The drop ride is called ``Acrophobia,'' which means a fear of heights.
About 30 people were stuck at a height of 200 feet on the ride for more than an hour because of a power failure at the Atlanta park.
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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: amusement; park; rides
200 Feet? GULLLPPP!!!
To: NormsRevenge
Good thing they weren't upside-down.
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posted on
06/19/2002 10:27:50 AM PDT
by
geaux
To: NormsRevenge
Would you like to see their view?
To: RoughDobermann
ACK! I can hardly look at the picture!
Thanks! (I think...LOL!)
To: NormsRevenge
Sounds like an innocent inconvenience that was handled properly, but I'm sure that won't stop the advancing swarm of lawyers from descending on the "victims".
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posted on
06/19/2002 10:36:16 AM PDT
by
dead
To: RoughDobermann
Thank goodness for the safety brake.
To: Miss Marple
You're welcome! :-) Here is one of the expected physical response to the demonstration of gravity...
To: RoughDobermann
Here is one of the expected physical response to the demonstration of gravity...
Looks reasonable to me !
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posted on
06/19/2002 10:49:13 AM PDT
by
jimt
To: NormsRevenge
More than an hour? I wonder if anyone had nature call them @ 200'? That would have been a funny site. A yellow stream from above....
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posted on
06/19/2002 10:52:45 AM PDT
by
OXENinFLA
To: RoughDobermann
I've actually ridden that one. Well, "ride" isn't actually the term -- you just free fall.
The only time in my life I've been scared in an amusement park.
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posted on
06/19/2002 10:53:24 AM PDT
by
Taliesan
To: NormsRevenge
Here is the same ride, only at 1,149 feet.
I rode this ride, but I needed 5 scotch's first!
stratosphere
To: NormsRevenge
I just love those rides that drop you like a rock. Three seconds of sheer terror, followed by that "I'm alive! I'm alive" feeling.
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posted on
06/19/2002 11:38:20 AM PDT
by
Minn
To: geaux; All
Goodness, it seems as six-flags is having a terrible run of luck lately!
To: NormsRevenge
How could they "get stuck" at the top? The thing runs on gravity, right?
SD
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