14 year old killed after being thrown from “drop tower” ride

[Long Live The Mamba]

 

[Colicat]

The Park, ride operators, and makers of the ride are all responsible for the young boy's death ...However, I wish the kid would've shown more concern for his own safety....He was so eager to get on the ride that his own well-being and safety never crossed his mind.

He’s a kid at an amusement park.

He is doing exactly what his brain is wired to do at 14.

Those designated to protect him should be second guessing their behaviors

 

[shutterguy]

EMS call from worker in the video next to him.

 

[Suzie]

EMS call from worker in the video next to him.

She said do cpr. Hell nah!!

 

[BlackXCL]

Not only them but everyone on that ride sitting near him will need it as well.

none of them even did shyt. they collected their shoes and bounced. not even a single reaction or any emotion. not a single one of them even checked on him. one of them even did the fukking ric flair WOOOO.

 

[CP3.]

Holy fukking shyt

 

[Buckeye Fever]

Growing up it was established that those were whiteboy rides

I will tell a chick in a minute, "if you want adventure, you better get you one of them white boys from them mountain dew commercials"

 

[JLova]

You suppose to check every person and push down on their locking mechanism YOURSELF. why tf you asking the ri3rs if they did it?

I say this as someone who works riders as a teen. This is bananas and was 100% avoidable. The crew member was fukking lazy.

Also this is designed poorly and should have the seatbelt clip as backip should the locking mechanism fail for any reason.

that’s why kids shouldn’t be tasked to do jobs where thry are responsible for the lives of others. Oh, but they pay them shyt so adults aren’t interested in those jobs.

I always loved roller coasters but was not fukking with any drop zone type shyt or any rides at fairs. I don’t see the appeal of those rides. Sky diving, bungee jumping, etc. No appeal

RIP to that kid.

 

[Professor Emeritus]

"In January 1972, Vesna Vulovic was on a flight over what was then Czechoslovakia as a flight attendant for Jugoslavenski Aerotransport. The aircraft broke up in midair when a bomb exploded onboard, killing everybody with the exception of Vulovic. She fell an estimated 33,333 ft before landing on the ground and somehow managed to survive. She was seriously injured from the accident, however.

She spent 16 months in the hospital and was in a coma for 27 days, as well as having dozens of broken bones. However, she went on to make a full recovery."

GTFOH !!!!

I don't Givafawk what they said

You reach terminal velocity within 800-1000 feet of falling. So after that point you literally can't fall any faster. All that extra height doesn't mean she falls that much faster, just that much longer. So if you happen to land in a really lucky way on the exact right surface and your body crunches in the right way to limit the damage to the most vital parts....it's possible.

She's not even the only one who has survived a fall from an aircraft.


"Alan Eugene Magee (January 13, 1919 – December 20, 2003) was an American airman during World War II who survived a 22,000-foot fall from his damaged B-17 Flying Fortress."

Alan Magee - Wikipedia


Nicholas Stephen Alkemade (10 December 1922 – 22 June 1987) was a British tail gunner in the Royal Air Force during World War II who survived a freefall of 18,000 feet (5,490 m) without a parachute after abandoning his out-of-control, burning Avro Lancaster heavy bomber over Germany.

Nicholas Alkemade - Wikipedia



Ivan Mikhailovich Chisov (Russian: Иван Михайлович Чисов, Ukrainian: Іван Михайлович Чиссов; 1916–1986) was a Soviet Air Force lieutenant who survived a fall of approximately 23,000 feet.

Ivan Chisov - Wikipedia



A South African skydiver is recovering in hospital after surviving an 11,000ft jump when her parachute failed to open. As Christine McKenzie spiralled towards the ground, her emergency parachute also failed to work properly, but she hit power lines which broke her fall. The 23-year-old suffered a fractured pelvic bone and some bruising but is walking and will leave hospital soon.

BBC NEWS | World | Africa | 'Miracle' escape for SA skydiver



This has always been my favorite one - the story is just fukking wild:

Juliane Koepcke (born 10 October 1954), also known by her married name Juliane Diller, is a German Peruvian mammalogist. As a teenager in 1971, Koepcke was the sole survivor of the LANSA Flight 508 plane crash, then survived 11 days alone in the Amazon rainforest. She survived a fall of 9,843 ft, still strapped to her seat.

Juliane Koepcke - Wikipedia

 

[Artificial Intelligence]

.......................

 

[L@CaT]

Ya’ll remember a few years back the Politicians son who got his head chopped off riding some water ride. Head got caught in the netting and chopped it clean off

 

[Professor Emeritus]

When I was a kid I used to go on all the rides even if I felt a little shook at how they were set up because logically I said to myself, "This is America, any place that wasn't totally safe would get shut down."


Blind trust that was misplaced.


I still think back to one super-steep waterslide I did that was damn near a freefall with hardly any lip on either side. They told you a ton of times to keep your legs straight and your arms crossed as you went down. I'm still sure to this day that if I had bent my knees I could have pushed myself straight away from that thing.

 

[DatBoiHawk]

Stopped the video when I seen him flying out of the seat

 

[Splash]

My girl sent this to me this morn, RIP.

 

[MarcP]

Smh look at this shyt

Why would you even let him get on the ride. That's a big dude. He's got tree trunk legs. That harness wasn't gonna lock no matter what he did. Just tell him nah you can't ride bro. Now he's dead. RIP.