H_Prestige
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I don't have 300,000,000 lives to burn through. If there's a chance, I'm not taking it. Would you play a game of russian roulette? No, and neither would I.
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Woman dies while riding roller coaster
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I don't have 300,000,000 lives to burn through. If there's a chance, I'm not taking it. Would you play a game of russian roulette? No, and neither would I.
Jack Scofield
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You'll slip in the line and impale yourself on those spikes.
TDLink
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Well do you drive a car? If you do then the chance is even greater than riding a roller coaster.
If you really believe what you say perhaps you could find a foam bubble to roll around in.
So you also aren't going to fly, drive, walk on the street, do any drugs, smoke, drink etc etc?
By your definition, you're playing Russian roulette every morning when you wake up.
Things more likely to kill you than a roller coaster (times more likely in parenthesis):
- Cancer (x42,857,142)
- Car accident (x3,750,000)
- Assault by firearm (x923,076)
- Terrorist attack (x230,769)
- Electrocution (x60,000)
- Drowning (x33,549)
- Falling in shower (x27,272)
- Tornado (x5,000)
- Lightning (x3,750)
- Skydiving (x3,000)
- Plane crash (x300)
Hope you've got your padded room ready. Straight jacket might suffocate you, though, might want to be careful about that.
Just reading about this.. 
I was just at Great America yesterday...my little cousins didn't get on any rides after the first one. The newest one Gold Striker.
When i went on the Endeavor (used to be called Revolution) the worker on my side was laughing in disbelief because the other worker forgot to "lock" something. She just stood there like "did she really forget to lock it?" Ans stood there until the other girl noticed her and came back. This ride is a big ship that hangs upside down for a few seconds and does loops.
A couple of weeks ago we went to Santa Cruz Beachboard walk and we went on this kiddy kind of ride that you lay flat on and it just goes in circles. Well the youngest sister who as with me noticed that her sisters ride light thingy was still red and not green like it was suppose be. We had to tell the worker, and the worker was like. "Thankx". I spoke to the worker privately afterwords because i didn't want to worry the girls. Told the little one great job and how important it is to pay attention to details like that. (While beating myself up in the inside for not noticing myself)
After hearing this story about this poor woman and her family, i'm glad i didn't pressure my little cousins on these rides.
As far as myself, i just upgraded my Great America ticket to a season pass before i left.....but now...i might need some time.
I was just at Great America yesterday...my little cousins didn't get on any rides after the first one. The newest one Gold Striker.
When i went on the Endeavor (used to be called Revolution) the worker on my side was laughing in disbelief because the other worker forgot to "lock" something. She just stood there like "did she really forget to lock it?" Ans stood there until the other girl noticed her and came back. This ride is a big ship that hangs upside down for a few seconds and does loops.
A couple of weeks ago we went to Santa Cruz Beachboard walk and we went on this kiddy kind of ride that you lay flat on and it just goes in circles. Well the youngest sister who as with me noticed that her sisters ride light thingy was still red and not green like it was suppose be. We had to tell the worker, and the worker was like. "Thankx". I spoke to the worker privately afterwords because i didn't want to worry the girls. Told the little one great job and how important it is to pay attention to details like that. (While beating myself up in the inside for not noticing myself)
After hearing this story about this poor woman and her family, i'm glad i didn't pressure my little cousins on these rides.
As far as myself, i just upgraded my Great America ticket to a season pass before i left.....but now...i might need some time.
Hope you don't choke on anything you're eating right now ;-)
http://health.howstuffworks.com/diseases-conditions/death-dying/what-are-the-odds.htm
lmao.
nintendoman58
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Good lord, that must have been horrifying to watch. RIP.
H_Prestige
Banned
There I things I can control and things I can't. I have zero control once I'm in a roller coaster. All I can do is pray that nothing goes wrong.
Race to be King
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If the odds were 300,000,000:1 in my favour? Yeah, I'd give it a go.
RastaMentality
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I've always hated the Texas Giant. RIP to the woman.
You have zero control when someone smashes into you at 60MPH on the highway.
You have zero control when the friction keeping your feet firmly attached to the shower floor breaks for just a very slight second.
You have zero control when a faulty wire shocks you to death when you go to plug something in.
You have zero control when a terrorist decides that your office building would be a good one to blow up that particular day.
You have zero control when an asteroid destroys the earth.
You have zero control when abnormal cells in your body begin multiplying and you later find that you have cancer.
...
You see where I'm going with this? How do you live in fear of death so constantly? You must be absolutely miserable.
I remember my first time on the Magnum at Ceder Point, I was 8 or 9, I was so skinny that I easily could've stood up and got out of the lap restraint, even though it was set to it's lowest level. I was so scared that air time was going to throw me out of the seat. Until I got bigger that was the only coaster where I held on to the bar.
H_Prestige
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You're posting silly examples. Yes a terrorist can blow up a building I'm in. That can also happen at home. Nothing I can about that except pray it doesn't happen. But I can reduce my chances of getting hurt on a roller coaster down to zero simply by not getting on one.
Silly example = car accident, cancer, electrocution, slipping in shower? All things thousands (sometimes millions) of times more likely to happen than death via roller coaster?
LOL
Willful ignorance in all of its glory, folks. Isn't it beautiful?
You are literally 600 times more likely to die of an asteroid striking the earth than you are from a roller coaster-related mishap.
The Faceless Master
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oooooh, that click once thing happened to me back in ... was it 2000? on the wooden coaster at Six Flags in Atlanta, GA. my safety harness was loose as fuck and i held on for dear life! scariest coaster ride i ever had!
krameriffic
Member
The alternative is fear of everything. Your argument is completely specious because you're forgetting the other 299,999,999 people who didn't die on rollercoasters. Everything carries a risk. That's economics. The question is how to best way those risks against the benefits, and make informed decisions based on the facts and your own personal values. You could just die today of a heart attack, or you could get hit by a bus, what the hell are you trying to say?
You'll have to fly to get there, wouldn't want to risk the plane crashing. You'll have to drive to the park, wouldn't want to risk dying in a car crash. You'll have to spend the day in the sun, wouldn't want to risk getting skin cancer. You'll probably partake in a cheeseburger while you're there, likely to give you heart disease later in life. You'll have to opt out of the big gulp soda, wouldn't want that type-II diabetes later on down the road.
Every single thing you do carries a greater risk than riding a rollercoaster.
bluelightningduo
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Absolutely zero asteroid related fatalities come to mind, while it seems like a couple times a year someone dies in a roller coaster incident.
Out of sight, out of mind.
ClassyPenguin
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Texas has very little regard to safety regulations.
I doubt this would have anything to do with Texas regulations. Wouldn't Six Flags have consistent safety procedures across all their parks?
NaughtyCalibur
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I agree with this post completely, but to be fair all of those deaths sound slightly more desireable than being thrown out of a ride and forced through a 5by7 inch hole by mechanical gears like I posted a few pages back. I mean HOLY MOTHER OF FINAL DESTINATION FUCK!
ClassyPenguin
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maybe but the one in Cali does double checks for restrains on some of the rides by different emoloyees. Not sure if it is standard policy.
Definitely some of that going on, but to just straight up ignore facts when they are presented?
It boggles my mind.
FullMetalx117
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I've ridden both the old Texas giant and the new Texas giant. The old Texas Giant definitely seemed a little unsafe but the new one seemed okay. This is just an absolutely terrible way to go. Just awful....
Throughout my 4 years of college (which I finished last year), I believe me and a buddy did magic mountain in california at least 30 times. I'll continue to gamble with my life I guess.
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I'm in your camp here but your "600 times" quote does not seem to be fact.
Edit:
I'm in your camp here but your "600 times" quote does not seem to be fact.
TalesOfWin
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superman ride at six flags.
TalesOfWin
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I remember that the swedish rainbow ride crashed a few years ago.
Here's my source on that one. The math at least is correct (300000000/500000), I never dug any further to verify anything, but it gets the point across just fine I think.
The ride was not at fault. Human error.
Don't worry I felt my ass lift off and I felt for a second I was getting thrown off in the big drop.
The OP report and few of these other stories are horrifying. I have no words for the heartache over the boy that lost his mother during that ride. My god.
Taking my family to a local amusement park tomorrow. My wife and son love rollercoasters, they scare me. Why am I reading this thread?
Taking my family to a local amusement park tomorrow. My wife and son love rollercoasters, they scare me. Why am I reading this thread?
timetokill
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Holy shit, I had a very similar experience once. That poor woman and her kid..
It's suppose to fell like that. No one dies on Splash Mountain
TalesOfWin
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of course, humans built these things.
AllIsOneIsNone
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Say what? I'm pretty sure you're the one posting silly things. There are probably a hundred things you choose do on a daily basis that has more of a chance of killing you than a roller coaster.
Are these all attempts at trolling? I don't get what's going on here.
There is no such thing on roller coasters or anything else in life.
:lol
It's just joke posting at this point, right?
????
It's not the designer's fault that the dude was fat and the attendant was lazy.
It should be illegal to have a [any moving vehicle in existence] that isn't 100% safe. Someone should go to prison over this.
The one that gets me is The Edge. It was one of those vertical drop rides where the car is pulled up like an elevator, rolls forward and drops down. Apparently, a car with 3 people on it rolled backwards back into the elevator shaft. They survived, but damn that would be terrifying. That's exactly what's not supposed to happen.
The ride was torn down a few years later. Even after mechanical changes to prevent that from happening again, few people wanted to ride it.
The ride was torn down a few years later. Even after mechanical changes to prevent that from happening again, few people wanted to ride it.
SapientWolf
Trucker Sexologist
But if you're not strapped in correctly your chances of an incident go way up. The risk isn't evenly distributed.
GraveRobberX
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HOLY FUCKING SHIT
Look at the 3:47-3:48 Timestamp, ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME!
Both of them almost fly the fuck out of their restraints, WHAT THE FUCK!
That shit is UNFUCKINGSAFE!
My heart stopped right at the moment
The guy on the right almost flew out, the restraint held them down, but I think I know how the mother died now =/
Thank fuck they have they have those window barriers to the side, you know there would be assholes/idiots trying to spread their arm and try to get that flying motion
The structure being close, gave me chills, so of those tunnels/banks the coaster just looks so freaky
I remember it...ride was terrifying when i was kid.
It didn't help when other kids used to talk about a girl who had long hair and her hair got caught on the top of the ride before going down......and her scalp got ripped off. First, i don't even know if that is possible or if the story was true. But it scared me shitless.
AllIsOneIsNone
Banned
Right, but you're either strapped in or not. Knowing if you're strapped in is well within your control. If you don't check whether you have a basic safety on a roller coaster (that is usually automatically controlled) AND the attendant doesn't check, then it's pretty much the perfect storm. That's like saying if your brakes don't work on your car then your chances of incident go way up.
Of course your statement is true, but it doesn't really contribute proof as to why roller coasters are unsafe.
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