Minor Park Incidents

[Gavin]

What the actual fuck.

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[panopticon31]

How does that even happen?

 

[Jonesta6]

That makes 0 sense - also, wouldn't the op have to e-stop immediately for something like this?

 

[b.mac]

That makes 0 sense - also, wouldn't the op have to e-stop immediately for something like this?

The operator absolutely was not paying attention at all before the ride started. Even if they pressed the E-Stop the ride would still slow down in that same fashion.

 

[Jonesta6]

I guess it looked like the ride was very much powered and in regular operating mode from what I saw, figured momentum would carry the ride forwards a bit with the e-stop but the question would be if the internal gears would shift in a way to bring the ride to a safe stop relatively quickly?

 

[horsesboy]

I don't think it's an instanious stop. I witnessed an Estop on Der Wirbelwind a couple years back and it took almost two whole revolutions fo it to come to a complete stop and that was early into the cycle I would assume that an estop on this would take a simular amount of time.

 

[Jonesta6]

Hence my question about gears on rides like this - would they be disengaged altogether allowing for free spin, like a car in neutral, or would it be closer to coasting a car in gear?

 

[Gavin]

While I can’t say for this specific model, Scrambler at KD “downshifts” the motor and applies air brakes to stop. It’s set to stop within 1.8 rotations with a full load. The ride doesn’t have an E-Stop at all, just a On/Off key switch, a Ride Start button, and a Dead Man Run button.

 

[Jonesta6]

Dead man run, like a dead man brake which applies the brakes if you let go of it?

 

[Gavin]

Yes

 

[panopticon31]

Hence my question about gears on rides like this - would they be disengaged altogether allowing for free spin, like a car in neutral, or would it be closer to coasting a car in gear?

even if you could instanenously stop rides like these it would be a bad idea. because the cables/chains are not fixed if the center stopped the riders/cars would not and would wrap/flop around which would cause an even bigger mess.

 

[Jonesta6]

even if you could instanenously stop rides like these it would be a bad idea. because the cables/chains are not fixed if the center stopped the riders/cars would not and would wrap/flop around which would cause an even bigger mess.

That's not where I was going with it - a gear engaged but not under engine load would act as a brake in that it would slow the ride down quickly but it's not the same thing as suddenly stopping where the whiplash you described would occur.

 

[Ziva]

I saw on Reddit (huge grain of salt) that the ride operator let a rider leave the stroller on the ride platform, presumably thinking that it was out of the way. The stroller was thankfully empty!

 

[ControlsEE]

And to think my worst stroller accident was when a guest did not latch the gate on the Blue train and it rolled off at tweedside crossing...

 

[Alf33]

Kid thought he was going to be slick and steal toys but it backfired.

13-year-old boy banned from theme park for a year after getting stuck in the claw machine | CNN

A teenage boy provided a cautionary tale for anyone who has ever wanted to sneak their way into some free prizes.

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