I was on you tube just now, and I was looking up a Roller Coaster ride to show my son...and I saw that there were tons of Roller Coaster, and Theme Park rides caught on tape of them breaking down, freak accidents...even ones that said people died on them-I could not look at them-I didn't know they were allowed to post stuff like that....it also went in to other fatal accidents with little kids..one said a kid was killed when he got hit in the head with a basketball...there's no way I'd click on that and watch it. Why is stuff like that permitted on there? How come nobody pulls that stuff off?
I never would have thought that stuff like that was viewable to anyone.
Now I am scared to death...because we go to Busch Gardens in a week....
I use to love riding amusement park and carnival rides...but not so much any more....
now I really don't like it.
Posted by bandit (Member # 6296) on :
I have had the same experience.And also a few guys showing off those scenes like if it was some really cool stuff.I remember one who haunted me for weeks..Involving an jumbo jet engine.nuff said..I guess anything goes on youtube,and i try to keep a close eye out whenever my son uses the internet over here.
However here is one cool safe ride you can show to your son.Crazy Austrians/Germans
Just stay away from some of those related videos.The first water loop slide.I would like to give it a try,but after you ISIS.Lady's first off course.After all i always do my best to be a gentleman
[ 19. July 2008, 12:17: Message edited by: bandit ]
Posted by 80'sRocked (Member # 6979) on :
You'll never, ever see me go on ANY "high rides." One, I don't like heights. Two, I was always afraid of it breaking while I was on it.
As far as youtube - you can mark a video as "inappropriate" and their administrators will review it and make their judgements.
Posted by bandit (Member # 6296) on :
quote: As far as youtube - you can mark a video as "inappropriate" and their administrators will review it and make their judgements.
Tried that.Not much luck however.
Be well.
Posted by Valley (Member # 1322) on :
This thread reminded me of the "Faces of Death" videos from the late 70's and early 80's. This series was extremely controversial and banned it certan countries. So of course High Schoolers were drawn to the tragedy of it all and would gather to watch it like a dare. Rather disturbing stuff.
[ 19. July 2008, 20:30: Message edited by: Valley ]
Posted by ISIS (Member # 1780) on :
Bandit...does that video of the slide turn tragic? I can't tell, because they are speaking in German, and I was afraid to watch.
I did watch this video of a young boy, who was really over weight...it was filmed in Australia, and it was one of those rides where your harnessed in, and it shoots you straight up in the air....well, his straps broke, and he was sliding out the bottom, he was screaming and screaming, that he was falling...and the adult woman he was with just kept laughing and laughing at him, and he's screaming "help me"...and I falling, and this hurts...and she kept laughing....I don't know for sure if she understood what was happening...he was too big for that ride to begin with...but for the rest of his life...he'll remember that...and I know I will never forget seeing that. I was so scared to keep watching it, I was so afraid he was going to fall.....but they did get him off...
I was telling my friend about it today...she's the assistant to our state represenative...I said why can't anyone do anything about it...she said there are laws trying to be passed...because she said they get calls all the time...because there is film footage of kids beating other kids on camera...and all kinds of things.
I knew that stuff was on those TV programs, but I never thought that a huge big website like You Tube would post stuff like that.....why can't they pull that stuff off, as soon as it gets on there?
I was horrible for me...I can't imagine kids viewing stuff like that.
Posted by bandit (Member # 6296) on :
This ride is just a lot of fun,and safe.If your up for the challenge that is
However i would not let my kid get free access to youtube.
Bandit
[ 19. July 2008, 17:51: Message edited by: bandit ]
Posted by Riptide (Member # 457) on :
Im amazed sometimes what kind of stuff gets on youtube, maybe it's the jack$%s generation.
Posted by 80'sRocked (Member # 6979) on :
quote:Originally posted by Valley: This thread reminded me of the "Faces of Death" videos from the late 70's and early 80's.
I could never watch Faces Of Death. That stuff freaks me out. Posted by Chris the CandyFanMan (Member # 3197) on :
Well, it may put you at ease to remember that at most accredited amusement parks, all the rides are inspected each morning by specialists, and thus the odds of these sensational accidents are quite minimal. Despite knowing these odds, I still won't try anything that goes high in the air or spins too wildly or both.
For a tamer, nsotalgic look at amusement parks on YouTube, I recommend footage of my favorite park back in the day, that being the late Angela Park in Drums, Luzerne County, PA (not mine, someone else who apparently frequented it posted it). At the time my father was shop steward at a foam plant in the Hazleton area, and the employees got free tickets for special outing days. The ball pit was my favorite; if there wasn't a 10 minute time limit I would have stayed in half the day. Same with the bumper cars and boats. It was also here that I developed a marked dislike for roller coasters, even though the park's signature "Valley Volcano" was quite tame by contemporary standards (but I suppose at 5 any coaster would seem rough). Sadly the park succumbed in 1989 after the original owners sold it and the new ones couldn't turn a profit. There's still some debris left at the site, and if I'm driving by I go nice and slow and let the memories slip back. Fortunately we found an apt replacement with nationally famed Knoebels Amusement Resort in Elysburg, Columbia County, and that's become a yearly tradition in its own right (and with free parking and admission, who wouldn't?).
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