I won’t go near them either.
It’s too easy for one guy to forget to set one last thing right, and then...
Surprisingly, for all the rides out there, this doesn’t happen as often as you would think.
For the big parks, there are nearly daily inspections of the rides, not to mention a fair amount of engineering before they are even built.
But I don’t know the amount of engineering or inspection that goes on for the smaller parks and traveling carny rides.