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Deaths on roller coasters are estimated to have a chance as low as 1 in 750 million per year. This is thanks to the stringent regulations amusement parks must follow and mandatory ride inspections that are performed every single day.
Of course when some unfortunate soul wins the deadly equivalent to a Powerball jackpot, journoscum can't help but make noise about it and stir up morons who believe the government has completely ignored potential safety risks for more than a century. Come and enjoy mirth at the expense of those who are more afraid of a train moving along a preset track than dying in a car crash or being struck by lighting.
I'll begin with some riveting discussion on YouTube videos reporting the accident:
I don't know they're regulated, therefore they're not regulated.
The number of injuries on X2 is a bit concerning, though in my opinion that reflects a flaw in the design of 4th-Dimensional Coasters and doesn't reflect the dangers of roller coasters in general.
Roller coasters aren't safe because I almost fell out of an unrelated carnival ride.
Make fatties weigh themselves before getting on the ride and if the weighing machine detects that they're over the safe weight it dumps Nickelodeon slime on them and also they're not allowed on the ride. That'll fix it.
I once got on one of those spinning rides at a carnival where they have the over the shoulders hard harnesses that are supposed to click into place. The ride started and my harness had not clicked into place and I had to spend the entire ride desperately holding down the harness so it wouldn't pop back up and spin me into oblivion.
I think one like this?
...I probably should have told someone at the carnival about that after it happened.
I once got on one of those spinning rides at a carnival where they have the over the shoulders hard harnesses that are supposed to click into place. The ride started and my harness had not clicked into place and I had to spend the entire ride desperately holding down the harness so it wouldn't pop back up and spin me into oblivion.
That looks like a topless version of the gravitron ride. I don't know about the one you posted since I never rode it myself, but you are borderline encouraged to fuck around on those.
I don't understand the idea of everything should be safe. Even if you lay in your bed all day, there is still a risk of death. I heard as a kid that apparently it was a known thing in ancient Greece that there is no such thing as "safety". It makes sense since anything can happen to you at any moment even if you doing something that you think is 100% safe. It's very arrogant to believe that you are entitled to your life and limbs, because at a cosmic sense you aren't.
That looks like a topless version of the gravitron ride. I don't know about the one you posted since I never rode it myself, but you are borderline encouraged to fuck around on those.
I don't understand the idea of everything should be safe. Even if you lay in your bed all day, there is still a risk of death. I heard as a kid that apparently it was a known thing in ancient Greece that there is no such thing as "safety". It makes sense since anything can happen to you at any moment even if you doing something that you think is 100% safe. It's very arrogant to believe that you are entitled to your life and limbs, because at a cosmic sense you aren't.
Those are fun, but it wasn't the enclosed one with the shifting beds. It was open where a big arm raises the entire thing up and down and you're strapped in like you would be for a roller coaster.
My memory is shaky though it was years and years ago.
My biggest problem with carnivals now is the one that rolls through my town is prohibitively expensive. I'm willing to pay an absurd amount of money for a turkey leg I likely won't finish, but do I have to pay $10 to go down a tall slide in a burlap sack?
If the chances of dying on a ride are extremely low and the thread's content relies upon such an accident happening and idiots making spurious claims, it seems like the thread would have very little and infrequent content.
If the chances of dying on a ride are extremely low and the thread's content relies upon such an accident happening and idiots making spurious claims, it seems like the thread would have very little and infrequent content.
Perhaps, but there are nearly 7,000 roller coasters in operation worldwide and the throughput for modern coasters is estimated to be 1,000-2,000 rides per hour. A park in temperate regions may run for 150-200 days per year, while a park in Florida could run nearly year-long. Eventually, disaster will strike somewhere, and people will blow it out of proportion.
Salt from serious but non-lethal injuries would also be acceptable for this thread.
Perhaps, but there are nearly 7,000 roller coasters in operation worldwide and the throughput for modern coasters is estimated to be 1,000-2,000 rides per hour. A park in temperate regions may run for 150-200 days per year, while a park in Florida could run nearly year-long. Eventually, disaster will strike somewhere, and people will blow it out of proportion.
Salt from serious but non-lethal injuries would also be acceptable for this thread.
"The odds of dying in a commercial plane crash are about 1 in 11 million, while the odds of dying on an amusement park ride (such as a roller coaster) are about 1 in 750 million rides."
Additionally...
"Annual odds of being struck by lightning are roughly 1 in 500,000 to 1,200,000, with lifetime odds around 1 in 15,300 to 18,864."
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"You are roughly 5 to 6 times more likely to be killed by a cow in the United States than to die from an amusement park accident."
