That idiot is probably fired and or should be. Imagine the outlook of this ride to the GP if he fell up there and fell off or some shit. Obviously not the rides fault but I can read the headlines now if it happened
Attraction Siren's Curse
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I thought it was just the angle the video was taken but it sure does look like he’s free. If he’s really not harnessed in that’s pretty insane. Valravn’s platform is much wider and they take the harnesses very seriously judging from the sunrise tour and everything else I’ve seen.
Doesn’t it look like the guests are free too?
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Haven't you heard, worker safety and OSHA are old ideas from 2024. Everyone is free now. Enjoy the freedumb America now offers.
This is what caught my eye the most. The dude at the edge of the tilt is certainly not ideal, but that many guests free-walking along the catwalks and down the stairs without even a simple harness seems ridiculously sketchy. I thought for sure they would be escorted back down two at a time, starting from the back of the train- or maybe I'm remembering an old policy.
Don't be so quick to blame the individual. Yeah, he's almost certainly in violation, but it seems like no one around cares. Parks require an internal culture of safety and that is likely the primary thing missing here.
Unless he never took a safety course and just didn't know. But I would like to belive you need a extensive safty class and a test afterward going over things like this. Sure others around him can remind him but if you trained on the safty the bottom line is you're responsible for your own actions.
Highly unlikely he was able to not take a safety class in the role he’s in to be up there. I’m not sure about Ohio but most states require regular training logged with the state to be allowed to do stuff like that.
Exactly. It literally is irrelevant to others around him not saying anything. Grown man responsible for his own actions. In a field like that, where you take multiple tests and someone else needs to tell you to put a harness on then you need to be off the field my guy. You are irresponsible and a liability if no ones there to hold your hand. But I run a business in the construction field so what do I know lol
BUT on the flip side if CP is not training people on this then thats a whole other issue. But surely a park does that so they can avoud being sued into oblivion
Kids must be terrified of this having to walk down ~160 feet like that. 
Vids like this are what the park needs to review with all employees and management internally to ensure everything is being followed properly and examine what can be done better next time. CP will be seen as nonchalant about safety if they don't get out in front of all the Siren's Curse vids showing it stuck or people having to walk down that hill. I have seen three in the last week and the comment reactions are ridiculous and un-moderated for accuracy.
We on this forum know better, but the GP will be frightened by these TikToks and Shorts of this ride without context. I can't wait to hear the refrain form the GP: "Oh, Siren's Curse - that one that gets stuck all the time? I'm not going on that."
Vids like this are what the park needs to review with all employees and management internally to ensure everything is being followed properly and examine what can be done better next time. CP will be seen as nonchalant about safety if they don't get out in front of all the Siren's Curse vids showing it stuck or people having to walk down that hill. I have seen three in the last week and the comment reactions are ridiculous and un-moderated for accuracy.
We on this forum know better, but the GP will be frightened by these TikToks and Shorts of this ride without context. I can't wait to hear the refrain form the GP: "Oh, Siren's Curse - that one that gets stuck all the time? I'm not going on that."
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I mean, it’s a big set of stairs— if they walk the guests down single file along the hand rail it’s not that big a deal.
It’s really the TM so close to the edge of the platform with no safety gear that seems most concerning to me.
It’s really the TM so close to the edge of the platform with no safety gear that seems most concerning to me.
Apparently it happened again. 4 times since opening the tilt mechanism has malfunctioned with riders aboard.
Dont these have to test like a few hundred times with 0 malfunctions before opening to the public? How was that even possible lol
My only guess is when they test the balance things and water dummies don’t move. Unbalanced trains + moving people = sensor knocks that cause a shut down.
Sensors.
Did they not test your car a few hundred times and yet it still breaks down occasionally.
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Don't the vekoma techs stay there to work on the ride for awhile until it seems mostly consistently operational?
I would argue that it didnt malfunction. An anomaly occurred where the ride computer sensed an unsafe condition and stopped the ride accordingly. The ride did what it was supposed to do: it didnt drop a train off the end of the track, rear end another train, or speed through the station without stopping. Now if it did do that, then I would be concerned. Also, do I need to remind everyone this is basically a prototype ride? 4 evacs related to a prototype in the first month of operation is really good. Verbolten had dozens its first year due to the drop track and more the year after!
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Malfunction was a best work I can think of to say that there needs to be leeway for slight variations in this stuff but still work right.
Basically if it is an issue with the sensors and it wasn’t programmed to handle people shifting around then is a malfunction in real world application if that makes sense.
I dunno. I’m sick. Excuse this rambling if it doesn’t make sense.
Not to belabor this weeks-old post in this thread, but this is the wrong attitude. People are bound to be more interested when something different happens with a coaster. It's not newsworthy or interesting to say, "Hey, did you hear? Everything operated perfectly at Cedar Point today!"
As for the "actual problems in a society" line, I'm a firm believer that people have the capacity to care about more than one thing at a time.
I think what @CoasterAuditor is trying to get at is that often times when stuff like this DOES happen, it gets MASSIVELY blown out of proportion, when 9/10 times its a simple thing where the ride stopped as it was supposed to. How many times have you seen a headline along the lines of: “Riders Stranded on Roller Coaster at [insert park here]”, when it’s literally just the ride having been estopped for another reason and safely stopped?
That line doesn’t suggest people should only care about “one thing at a time” just that there are bigger problems and stories to worry about than a roller coaster getting stuck and personally I dislike the fueling of mistrust in amusement parks with the general public it causes.
@Coasternerd is correct my post is more frustration with local media over sensationalizing this kind of news. It’s problematic they’ve needed to evac Sirens Curse a few times now but it appears if it does get locked in the tilt position it appears it takes ~10 minutes to reposition it at a level grade to evac the train. I would be significantly more concerned if we were seeing people locked in the tilt position for 30 minutes or hours.