@@vanessac1721 its not even about just physical pain though. theres a lot of psychological and emotional pain after a horrible accident like that. shit takes guts
One of my good friends died at our state fair (York Fair) in September 2001. Unfortunately he passed one day before 9/11/2001 so his death was overshadowed and felt like a blur, worse yet only being in 2nd grade wasn't much I could do like go to the funeral and because of the attacks wasn't like we were offered or given any psychiatric help to cope. I ended up going to a robotics camp with his brother 7 years later and after the week felt like a weight had been lifted off my chest. Told him I think about his brother often not just in September. His positivity and cheerfulness was a much needed light in this world and since he passed it has faded, until I walked in this week and saw that same light that naturally made me start being friends with his little brother having never met him before that. I have not nor will not ever ride any rides at the our fair or carnivals. I do however always think and talk about you any chance I can Matty. Love and miss you buddy
I know the York fair well, used to show my 4-H goats there yearly. I remember the security had to get ramped up as the years went on, because of animal theft. I was in the first grade when that all happened, even showing that year. i know I was too young to even remotely grasp it. I'm not sure if you know or heard about it if you're still local. There was another death there a few years ago and from what I understand there was a major uphall with it. Came under new management and a lot of the rides from what I heard are no longer there. It also is a few months earlier than before, being in the summer weather than fall. That caused a hell of a discourse with us farming folks, but I think even those exhibits got cut down too Needless to say, my deepest condolences and I hope you and yours are doing well.
@@Piximae Yeah I had heard there was another unfortunately, and it definitely isn't what it used to be. I went back for the first time this year in nearly a decade for some of the shows and agree it should be pushed back again. I know it would help y'all and it would cool off quite a bit than roasting even in the grand stands. I know y'all don't hear it nearly enough but thank you for being the backbone of America and keeping farming alive and well people truly do not know how hard and thankless a job that is, especially these days. Thank you for the kind words truly means a lot, and I wish you the best as well.
The Elizabeth one still sends shivers down my spine, what she went through is literal torture and i couldn't imagine the pain she went through. Shes very strong to not let it affect her.
@@delgrengo2135 just because I didn't mention them all doesn't mean I wasn't also thinking about them. I only mentioned her because 1 I've heard about her before and 2 because of the gory situation she suffered and being permanently disfigured but not letting it affect her mentally.
I felt sick thinking how much pain she must have been in 😢 That poor girl and all her gorgeous red hair. She is TOUGH to be able to survive and carry on.
Hi, rollercoaster tech again, glad to see a carnival edition of these nightmare scenarios 💀 5:20 funnily enough I just became certified to inspect the pendulum ride at my park as of this vid, (though the build’s closer to the one that’s falling apart at 6:19), and I have to say it is SCARY how easy it is to neglect pendulum rides. By manufacturing standards, the open gears inside these are supposed to be lubricated every few hours, you’re supposed to constantly check for cracks, and no bolts can be loose whatsoever. To let it get so bad that a whole section of SEATS falls out? Yeah that’s a few years behind bars for the mechanic who signed off on that. 7:21 I think it’s absolutely wild that this was written off as a manufacturing fault and that the operators/technicians weren’t held responsible cause catching hair in the MACHINE shouldn’t even be a possibility. I can’t find anywhere that says what held on to her that tightly, be it a gear or a restraint or something, so I’m honestly stumped on this one. 9:2010:24 these really suck because it takes a multitude of factors to get this to happen, let alone TWICE. For one, most modern rides incorporate seatbelts for this purpose. 99% of the time, straps/belts are mainly done out of redundancy while the actual restraints, in this case probably a lap bar, hold you in place. On top of this, most big rollercoasters, especially inverted ones, take advantage of g-force to keep you in your seat even if a restraint were to fail, (despite certain white-knuckle stories you might hear). Just looking at the footage here it’s pretty clear why they got thrown off since these things are spinning in a very non-euclidean direction, thus propelling guests in multiple directions, + there has to be some serious neglect on the technicians’ parts for letting lap bars for FLAT rides fail. Honestly seat belts are not that hard to add. 12:00 this has to be an older model of drop ride cause most of the ones I know, (granted I don’t work with carnival rides), use magnets to control the slowing of the drop followed by shock cylinders that let the gondolas lower into a fixed position smoothly. This was likely a fully mechanical ride that lost its controlling mechanism and had no failsafes to prevent a ground collision. Also it’s incredibly funny that the operators and even the organizers bailed out after hearing that one of their rides broke and the government probably hasn’t done anything about it. Like here at actual theme parks, if you as a technician sign off on a ride as OK to operate, everyday you’re signing a legal document that’s fully usable in court in the event where someone gets injured or killed because of something YOU were supposed to check. They *will* send your ass to jail if they catch you lacking and someone gets hurt. 13:10 HOW DO YOU PUT TWO RIDES SO CLOSE TOGETHER THEY SMASH INTO EACH OTHER? 🤯 14:50 Again another sad case of G-force working against someone along with neglecting the application of a seatbelt. Anything can be said about the restraint failure since the investigations were so vague about it, but my best guess is just neglecting to inspect the parts that actually held the restraint in place upon locking. 16:27 A seatbelt as the main restraint mechanism??? You gotta regularly inspect the fraying of the straps on those things man… If you got a ride that uses soft harnesses, you *really* need to replace them if they start tearing. 17:51 Was not expecting to see one about Operator error honestly. Guess that park just hired anyone to operate those heavy machines.. 19:28 And hence why height requirements exist. Honestly I thought regular amusement parks were ghetto enough outside of the big name ones but yeah I’m never going to a theme park again lol.
Ngl I kinda dig this is a conspiracy theory but I couldn’t tell you. Most carnival rides are built differently for transportation purposes but they definitely do buy *used* attractions, possibly ones sent in by theme parks that phased them out.
nice to hear from a rollercoaster tech! do they buy used carnival rides how people buy cars for spare parts? like do companies buy damaged rides "fix" them and use or re sell? or are they permanently not allowed to be used anymore
Man, this is eerie. When I was 10 or 11 I went to a local carnival and went on the "Scrambler" ride which was basically the "Sizzler". I was pretty short but was tall enough to fit in the ride. Part way through the ride I felt like I had to hang on the front metal bar and my legs couldn't touch the foot capture, so my legs began to flail. A few seconds later the ride stopped, and the attendant banned me from the ride. I thought he was being a jerk at the time, but dude probably saved my life. Being so young I didn't realize how much in danger I was really in. Thanks attendant guy for banning me and telling the others not to let me on either. Note I wasn't struggling to stay on that hard, but who knows if it kept going.
Oh my god yes I was on one just like that called the Scrambler as a kid. I was sitting on the outside-most spot on our seats and felt like I was gonna be flung out of it. Had to hold me and my much smaller friend down. On top of that, idk if it’s because there was like no one there, but the carnie kept it going for WAY too long. I remember the distinct point it stopped being fun and I just closed my eyes praying it would stop 😭
@@antlersev yeah, I was on it with another I forgot to mention I was on the inside my right against the car and pressed against it. The girl next to me crushed me a bit. Probably helped keep me in place like you did for the other. Sometimes when you are scared though a few seconds can feel like minutes. I suppose it could be that due to less people they decided to give you your money's worth. It felt like that when I would go on less busy days.
When my dad was down on his luck, alone, travelling, just trying to make money he joined the carnies. They would all get drunk and smoke crack every night. Even my dad smoked crack with them. I couldn't believe my ears. That shit is a WILD subculture. He said you would never let your kids on these rides if you even knew half of it 😭
Dang this is the third time I've heard that first story. What's sad is his girlfriend at the time blames or blamed herself for his death because he brought her to the carnival to cheer her up after her grandfather's funeral took place earlier that day
that HAS to be the reason. mistaking the screaming for people having fun is one thing, but they should be able to tell something is wrong from where they're standing. i feel like its way too easy to get this job, and if they made it any harder state fairs would cease to exist.
I will say some rides can't just stop completely because that wouldn't end well for the people in them, the force has to go somewhere so it has to slowly stop, which is what i imagine the emergency buttons actually do
This reminds me of when I was 14 and on the old wooden roller coaster at Eliches 6 Flags in Denver. No seatbelt, just a lap bar that is shared by everyone in the row. I was scrawny, and the person next to me was older and larger, so the lap bar didn't touch my lap. I remember holding on for dear life during the entire ride because I could feel myself slipping out of the seat. It wasn't until watching this that I realized how much I had dissociated from and minimized that experience. I'm grateful to be alive.
So in 1990 I was thrown off a fair ride. This was before they had over the head bars so it was just a lap bar holding me and my dad. I was 4 ft tall and he was 6ft 3 so there was a looot of size difference. I was sucked under the bar ,through the seat entrance, i was slung through the back size and luckily landed in Georgia red clay. I broke my elbow, my shoulder bruised my ribs and eyes. We did sue them and I hope it contributed to more safety measures. I’m still scared of that feeling of not being able to stop. I’m so sorry my dad had to watch it helpless as he waited for the ride to stop.
@@dukeofgotham4311What’s the use in saying this? You want a clap? Just keep that to yourself. Imagine you decide to relive your trauma and some guy goes, “yeah right buddy.”
I prefer the snacks and lil games you can win plushies in. I usually only ride some tame rides and maybe those elephant rides, I ain’t riding anything that goes upside down or flings me 💀
@@RocksterStudios-tt3eh the tame kiddie rides in this video still killed/maimed people. I wouldn't go on any of them, the roller coaster i went on once had dogshit restraints.
Carnivals got stupid expensive nowadays, like you need to save over $100 in order to do anything at the carnival. For stuff that is this shitty? Not worth it lmao
Anywhere that's pay-per-ride is highway robbery. ESPECIALLY if you live near any sort of actual theme park or amusement park. Like, for me it's "do I wanna spend $50-100 per person on cheap ramshackle carnival rides, or do I wanna spend $50-$80 a person and drive 30 minutes to Cedar Point?"
The last one I went to was in 2019. It was $20 just to get in and about $5 per ride ticket and most of the rides took two or three tickets. The food was absurdly expensive as well! A sausage with fries and a Coke was $15.
Oh my stars you just unlocked a buried memory. It was the Curse of the Mummy Ride at Universal Studios Florida. The shoulder bar came lose RIGHT before the ride plummeted into pitch black darkness. And my arms grew three aizes that day, I absolutely Hate-Gripped that thing. For like 5 minutes, my only focus was to hold that bar. I have no idea what happened for the ride itself. There was also a point at the Harry Potter ride that a Dementor swings out at you. Im 6'2. The ride was NOT made for tall people, because I absolutely booted that thing by accident.
Final Destination scarred me as a kid so I NEVER get on anything at the fair. I just walk and watch my folks and eat cotton candy. Mostly the only thing I go for and funnel cakes
Elizabeth is such a champ. Had one of the most horrific accidents happen to her and she still fight and managed to be optimistic. Hope she continues to do well.
I almost died at my local fair because the drop towers belt wasn’t clipping, I held on for my fucking life as an 8 year old, to the point where my ass lifted off the seat and the only thing holding me was my mom and my own two hands
Something similar happened to me, at the Oklahoma State Fair. The guy strapping everyone in, he didn't make sure my harness was on all the way. Once the ride started, I started slipping out of the seat, thank god my dad had a hold of my shirt
Literally the only drop-tower ride I will ever go on is the Tower of Terror. Both because of the theatrics and because the open air ones always seem tailor made for accidents.
Damn, that was my biggest fear as a kid. Something going wrong. I don't trust those machines. And people made fun of me for not joining. Thank God you didn't fall off🫢
One time the ride I was on with my brother at the state fair malfunctioned. It was a pendulum ride called the Pharaoh's Fury, with a long boat that swung very high in either direction. It stopped working and started swinging slowly back and forth at the bottom without the manager being able to stop it. It made me and the other passengers sick. The operator had to try and steady it himself so people could get off Edit: I made this comment before I got to the part INVOLVING the Pharaoh's Fury lmfao
Omggg I'm so sorry for laughing but that made me laugh so hard. That's so shitty, it's not fast enough to be really dangerous but it's too fast for you to get off, so you just have to sit there being fucking seasick. I'm so sorry that happened to you oh my god
I mean now that he’s got a whole staff of people, they type up the scripts and he just sits and reads and laughs. Then they edit it. Not too much work there
I rode on the sizzler once and it was the worst experience of my life. The people working there stuffed three people in one seat and the bar wouldn’t even close all the way down. I remember when the ride started, I immediately was shoved to the edge of the seat and grabbed the safety bar in an attempt to keep myself from flying out of the seat. I ended up getting bruises from being shoved around and couldn’t even enjoy the ride because I was trying to hold onto the safety bar for dear life. -1000000000/10 would not recommend.
My first Job ever was as a Carny I operated a car ride that went in circles. On my first day I was working the ride and made sure all the kids were in their seats I checked and then looked away and pressed start on the ride terminal to start the ride. well in the few seconds that took a child maybe 7 had hoped out of the car and was in front of the car when it started and of course the poor kid got ran over by the car. Everyone was screaming and freaking out. I felt like a horrible person because it was my responsibility to make sure they are fully seated and I missed him hoping out of his car. He lived and only had a broken arm and some bruises. I quit the job that nightt.
Anytime you do these videos covering any kind of tragedy or mis-happenings and laugh I can completely understand where you're coming from papa. The incidents are so grisly and horrific at times you can't help but laugh at how poorly words can describe it or how cartoonishly awful and shocking the reality of things are. Personally I think you keeping it light hearted and spinning it positively makes for a much better dampener for this kind of info. Love the content as always!
Here in germany, all rides on carnivals have to inspected by an TÜV official (kinda like OSHA, I think) before you are allowed to open it to the public. And that means EVERY time its assembled in EVERY town the carnival moves to.
I know of the TÜV in the UK. They also inspect and test playground equipment that play equipment manufacturers produce and all newly designed and manufactured play equipment for playgrounds usually have a TÜV testing certificate to show that the item was tested and is compliant to the current standards for playgrounds. At least the reputable commercial manufacturers will have the certification for all their equipment from basic play panels all the way to swings and large climbing units. I know they also carry tests on items and equipment in other sectors aswell.
When I was about 6 years old, we went to the county fair. I was on my dad's shoulders, so I had a picture perfect view of an elderly woman falling out of the ferris wheel basket and landing on the center axle. She hung there for quite some time. I remembered it so vividly, that I looked it up years later and managed to find the article, (edited to protect privacy) "A 60-year-old woman is in the hospital after surviving a 25-foot fall from a ferris wheel. ------ suffered a broken femur, ribs and collar bone after she slipped out of her seat and fell onto the center axle of the big wheel at the ------ District Fair The wheel has been shut down and is undergoing an inspection, but so far authorities have not found any mechanical failure with the ride. It could reopen as soon as tomorrow. All the fair's rides were inspected before the it opened last week." Published: Sep. 30, 2007 at 1:33 AM CDT Seems like she survived though! Anyways, thanks Dad for inadvertantly making me bear witness. Core memory. I can still see her blue shirt spotlighted in my memories.
That sucks honestly, childhood trauma from witnessing violent things like that is probably one of the worst experiences a person can go through especially with time
I love amusement parks because they regularly regulate everything and if they suspect something is wrong they’ll shut the ride down and there is a way to escape if the ride stops. They have safety precautions and even on the most violent rides I felt safe. Though I know bad things can happen, most of the time with amusement parks (at least from my experience and what I’ve heard) is that people take it seriously and so do the parks if someone gets injured, even if some of the owners try to deny it, at least the victims/survivors are somewhat compensated. Can’t say it for every amusement park, but my favorite ones are Adventureland and Busch Gardens, they have strict regulations and rules on who can and cannot ride certain rides and while it may be a bummer, they’re legit trying to help people. The people operating the rides are super fun and know how to make the experience worthwhile. I remember when Verbolten first opened (Busch Gardens) and I was so scared of the drop, but at least I knew I was safe and now it’s one of my favorite rides!
At Kennywood, here in Pittsburgh, there was this one ride that kid-me absolutely adored. It had these acute-angled /\ robot legs, with a little pod on the end of each one, and the ride would spin around while stretching and retracting the robot legs in sequence. It was one kid per pod, and the low passenger capacity per go-round could result in super long lines. Kid-me didn't care. I'd come off the ride and sprint right to the back of the line so I could go again, over and over. One day, though, I settled into my pod, the operator threw the switch, and *PFOOM!* A sudden gust of wind blasted up from the depths of the machine, spraying us all with old leaves, forsaken popsicle sticks, and ancient gum wrappers. That was the end of that ride. It never ran again, and eventually they replaced it with something else. If I had to guess, the pneumatics blew out all at once. Anyway, that's my story.
I almost flew off the jackrabbit at Kennywood. I was younger, pretty skinny, and the ride only had handlebars that would clank down on your thighs. Big, old ass rickety coaster. We were going around one of the corners that's traveling upwards and I started sliding up and up. My knees slid up and I grabbed the bar as my knees came out from under. Almost shit my pants I was so scared lol.
My cousin went on the Magic Carpet years ago, and her shoulder safety bar thingy went up halfway through the ride. She had to pull it down and hold on for life. Ive never been on a fair ride since
We used to have a travelling carnival that would come to town and set up in an empty dirt lot across from the grocery store. It was always considered shady as hell for years until one year three of the carnies got arrested for shooting pellet guns at people who were on the rides. The carnival stopped coming here after that and hasn't been here for years. I think the city council permanently banned them from coming back to our town.
@@vipr1142 RUclips every year has stricter and stricter guidelines that have to be followed, otherwise the channel will receive strikes and can be deleted all together.
Makes me always scour the internet looking for it haha. No luck yet, only similar ones, but it's an awesome shirt. I'd buy it the second I could find it.
The worst thing that ever happened to me at a carnival was when I was 16 and my cousin was 14. The carnie operating the ride asked if we were sisters and kept waving as we rode by and keep going “another ride” we thought we’d never get off
The fact that the ride went on for 10 minutes while that little girl was being slowly torn apart is crazy. You’re telling me no one around screamed to stop the ride? They just let it happen?
What the heck kinda ride even goes for 10 minutes? I've only known rides to run for a couple minutes per load of people. Maybe it was like the other reply says, and the attendant was having a particularly good daydream
Also, considering the ammount of people that use them, these accidents are rare in nature Meaning that you are probably safer on the six flags roller coster than on any car
@@ricardofernandosotomayordo9685 I mean, it's basically in the same vein as when people are deathly afraid of shark attacks or flying in an airplane, but have zero issues with driving everyday of their lives. They are technically considered irrational fears, due to their incredibly rare occurrences. But obviously, that still doesn't stop people from having these phobias.
I get peoples fear of them, but you wouldn't stop going outside to the store because someone might run you over. or never walk on an uneven floor for fear of tripping and hitting your head. everything in life has risks unfortunately doing daily activities can be deadly in the right situation.
Born and raised from Traverse City, MI here. Don't go to Cherry Fest. It is the worst fucking event to ever happen to humanity and it makes it town absolutely untravelable. I want to move so bad
I worked with a guy who was a proud ex-carny. He would tell me constantly how little was holding the rides together and how most can be effectively turned into deathtraps by removing literally a single piece like a pin or screw.
I've worked at carnivals as a teen. I would never ride anything or take my kids now. Alot of ppl don't know most entrance tickets have a disclaimer on the back. Buying that ticket prevents you from suing if you are injured or killed. Thats a huge red flag
In my local theme park someone was able to take off their safety harness only because their rain coat was caught. They fell down, concussed the guy in front of her and landed on the tracks and then was subsequently run over by the same ride she was riding. She died but there was a photo taken by the photo booth at the end of the ride.
8:30 that poor girl 😢 it reminds me of one of my first carnival rides at a creepy nearly completely empty carnival, which was also a teacup-like ride. I felt like I was going to be flung out of the ride because it was going too fast (my brother and I were like 5 and 6 at the time) so we screamed for the guy to stop the ride, but I swear he just laughed at us and made the ride go faster. I think that was when we begged our parents to leave the carnival, lol. It looked like the carnival from silent hill in the middle of some forest in upstate New York and was almost completely empty except for a few workers…which made the whole experience even creepier.
Years ago i was in line for the zipper ride, it was a long and circular rectangular metal beam that the caged seats circled and spun around on. i was waiting there when i heard something clunk real loud from somewhere up on the ride, a second or two passes and then i hear an impact infront of me somewhere on the ground, i look down and i see a huge gear lying on the ground infront of me, i didn't stay in line after that
7:13 my first time driving with the driving teacher I got hit. Wasn’t my fault lady was going 55mph in a 30 mph zone that was residential, we know because of the 85ft skid. She didn’t get charged dad worked for the city.
Some guy that worked for the city was drunk hit my girls car and her sisters while they were parked and the guy didnt get a DUI or even breathalyzed the cops sent them home and did some corrupted b.s where they almost blamed my girl and her sister
You and Oompaville should do a video where you both read the most insane child death cases and try to get through it without laughing. I guarantee you two won't make it all the way through. Edit: And to keep you from getting canceled, every time you laugh, you donate to a children's charity.
I remember being at the state fair around 2017 and getting on this ride called "the yoyo" after i had just eaten a corndog stuffed with 2 mini hotdogs and drinking a large rootbeer, i vomited up what i had eaten as soon as i got off the ride, and istg you could see chunks of hotdog in the puke, i got a cool off brand light up minecraft sword from it though.
i almost died on a magic carpet ride at a carnival. I was a little kid like 8 and my father basically forced me to go on it. The guy running the machine said id be fine I was definitly to small for the restraints and if it wasnt for my father being next to me securing me the best he could i would have flown many feet to my death. That one experience ruined rides for me forever and i will never go on any sort of ride again. I actually still sometimes have night terrors about it years later.
There were many more i was forced onto in my childhood. I hate rides so much id rather shoot myself in the foot than get on any ride except maybe a Farris wheel.
Tyre Sampson's death In March 2022, 14-year-old Tyre Sampson died after falling from the FreeFall ride at ICON Park in Orlando, Florida. An investigation found that Sampson was not properly secured in his seat, and that the ride's operators had manually adjusted the harness sensors to allow for larger riders. The ride was permanently closed, and Slingshot Group, the ride's owner and operator, paid a $250,000 fine to the state of Florida. Imagine being flung like 100+ feet in the air, and just flying off the ride like wtf 🫣.
When I was 11 my friend convinced me to go on to one of those Moby Dick rides bc according to her it wasn't scary at all. I screamed for my mommy all the way through and I puked on my friend's shoes afterwards. Now nearly 30 years later I haven't been on any ride that goes over 5mph and seeing these examples proves to me that I've made the right choice. I feel so horrible for all these people that got hurt. That little girl that got scalped? OMG! 😭
17:25 Once I went on one of those kiddy and sketchy swings with my younger brother at our county fair. The lady working with it went around and buckled everyone else, but she never got to my younger brother. She started the ride without my brother being strapped in. I will literally never forget the look on his face as he faced backwards towards me and frantically grasped into the sides of the swing. His whole life definitely flashed before his eyes in that moment. I have no doubt that that little five year old was absolutely convinced that he was going to die that day. When the operator realized, she had to run around in circles just to catch up with my brother. The ride was still going while she was sprinting to catch up with the swing and buckle him in.
Fall festival in evansville Indiana (which is currently happening funny enough) has a zipper. Rode it and decided that while exhilarating, I didn’t feel like dying in a ride with duct tape for cushions and master locks holding the doors anymore lmao
Rode the zipper with my 9 year old cousin, like 20 years ago, and she started puking A LOT while our cage was flipping over and over. We were both covered in her vomit by the time we got off. ....But at least we were alive!
We had a ride like the Grasshopper at our county fair several years ago. I rode it with a loved one who was significantly bigger than me, and the only restraint was a lap bar that didn't lock into place. When it started moving, I was lifted completely out of my seat multiple times (because the lap bar hovered six inches above my legs), and my friend had to trap me under his thigh as he held onto me so I wouldn't be launched from the ride. I lost my keys and almost lost my phone during the event, and we had to search the field for my belongings afterwards. Also! The ride at 0:11 seconds in is called The Cannibal, and it's in an amusement park called Lagoon, which is staffed mostly by teenagers. That initial drop is over 90 degrees, it dangles you upside down for several seconds, and the only thing holding you in place is a lap restraint. It's a rush, but if that single lap restraint fails, you'd be dead the second the ride began.
I live in a small town that has nothing interesting to do but every spring break the same carnival comes for four days and literally EVERYONE goes. It’s all we have lmao
My cousins had to hold my shoulders when my harness came undone on the Ring of Fire ride which is a coaster that does continuous loops. Then my dad yelled at me when I got off the ride in tears. Good times 😌
I knew id find someone else who almost died on Ring of Fire. My best friend and i were always small for our age and we went on this ride at 12. When it got to the top and we were just suspended for however long, we both almost fell out of the harness. We were luckily in the front and we braced ourselves on the plexiglass. We both looked at eachother and said nothing but we were acknowledging to eachother that we knew we might die. Thats not a fun thought to have at 12.
Our state fair had a decapatation one year, the zipper ride catch fire . The man mini drop tower come lose . I worked there year when I was young and it’s crazy on tear down night . How fast everything folds up and the chaos that goes with it. Everything but the giant wheel and few food trucks are left by morning
I remember awhile ago I went to Circus Circus in Vegas and my shoulder harness for the roller coaster flew up right before the loops. I just grabbed it and pulled it back down and screamed until it was over. Now I’m paranoid about any ride. ESPECIALLY Farris wheels for some reason. I’ll get back on a roller coaster before I’d ever get back on those
Back in early 2002, I got on a rollercoaster for the very first time. Nothing bad happened but it was my very last time ever getting on a ride of any kind. It was the Big Bad Wolf at Bush Gardens in Williamsburg, Virginia.
My only real experience with these sort of rides was a yearly event they used to hold at the I-X Center in Cleveland, which is like a massive former-WWII airplane hanger that's now used as a convention center. They would have dozens of these sort of rides set up in late winter early spring (aka before Cedar Point would open for the season) along with a massive Ferris wheel that needed it's own custom skylight to fit in the building. As a kid it was awesome, but it got shut down for good after 2020. I don't recall any accidents ever happening there beyond just people puking on rides though. I assume the production value along with the lack of weather damage helped.
11:00 - 11:06 I'm sorry, but I had to try really REALLY hard not to laugh at the mental image of that. I know in real life it would be horrifying and gory, but that is a literal slap-stick comedy movie joke. Like, I know for a fact I've seen bits like that in several movies.
As someone who had a seizure, driving and completely wrecked my body requiring multiple surgeries and had a seizure off of second floor, balcony that required more surgeries. I want to commend the young girl who had the tragic accident with her hair being pulled for 10 minutes I can’t even imagine the horror and pain she was feeling, her outlook on life and her situation is just amazing. My prayers are with her, and I hope she gets compensated very highly, because that type of negligence nearly mmmmmmmm
A lot of these feel like if you had any fictional villain who creates death traps just go crazy, like the fact that some people are launched especially on rides with space in the name just makes me think of the ride just turning into a missile and launching parts of it at the other rides, that is how much of a liability they feel like.
One of my friend's cousins got decapitated on one of the rides. Scary man. My brother used to work for a city and he saw them drinking beer when assembling them. Huge problem.
Elizabeth is literally such an inspiration. Such a strong young girl, I can't say that I'd ever have that much hope after something like that. What a brave girl ☹️😞
Holy shit, the girl who got scalped is such an absolute badass. She's handling it so much better than I ever could. What a beast.
Lots of morphine
@vanessac1721 so what? She's still a major boss. Don't be a dick and try to diminish how she handled it and continues to handle it.
@@vanessac1721wtf?
@@vanessac1721 its not even about just physical pain though. theres a lot of psychological and emotional pain after a horrible accident like that. shit takes guts
The incident must have damaged the revenge part of her brain.
5:04 the kid who died at the Ohio State Fair was in my class, after that incident a lot of people stopped going on the rides. RIP Tyler Jarrell.
my sincerest condolences. I heard he was a sweet kid
@@billieshoemate4392 Didn't know him very well honestly, its such a shame he passed at 18, so much life was ahead of him.
press X for doubt
@@ScrumpfJilliams we were both in cyber security at the south western career academy in Columbus, Ohio. Our teachers name was Mr. McClelland.
@@ScrumpfJilliamspress x for redditor
One of my good friends died at our state fair (York Fair) in September 2001. Unfortunately he passed one day before 9/11/2001 so his death was overshadowed and felt like a blur, worse yet only being in 2nd grade wasn't much I could do like go to the funeral and because of the attacks wasn't like we were offered or given any psychiatric help to cope. I ended up going to a robotics camp with his brother 7 years later and after the week felt like a weight had been lifted off my chest. Told him I think about his brother often not just in September. His positivity and cheerfulness was a much needed light in this world and since he passed it has faded, until I walked in this week and saw that same light that naturally made me start being friends with his little brother having never met him before that. I have not nor will not ever ride any rides at the our fair or carnivals. I do however always think and talk about you any chance I can Matty. Love and miss you buddy
I know the York fair well, used to show my 4-H goats there yearly. I remember the security had to get ramped up as the years went on, because of animal theft. I was in the first grade when that all happened, even showing that year. i know I was too young to even remotely grasp it.
I'm not sure if you know or heard about it if you're still local. There was another death there a few years ago and from what I understand there was a major uphall with it. Came under new management and a lot of the rides from what I heard are no longer there.
It also is a few months earlier than before, being in the summer weather than fall. That caused a hell of a discourse with us farming folks, but I think even those exhibits got cut down too
Needless to say, my deepest condolences and I hope you and yours are doing well.
@@Piximae Yeah I had heard there was another unfortunately, and it definitely isn't what it used to be. I went back for the first time this year in nearly a decade for some of the shows and agree it should be pushed back again. I know it would help y'all and it would cool off quite a bit than roasting even in the grand stands. I know y'all don't hear it nearly enough but thank you for being the backbone of America and keeping farming alive and well people truly do not know how hard and thankless a job that is, especially these days. Thank you for the kind words truly means a lot, and I wish you the best as well.
Absolutely INSANE story, I'm so sorry that happened and my thoughts go out to that whole family!
Pouring one out for Matty tonight brother
❤❤❤
The Elizabeth one still sends shivers down my spine, what she went through is literal torture and i couldn't imagine the pain she went through. Shes very strong to not let it affect her.
@@delgrengo2135 just because I didn't mention them all doesn't mean I wasn't also thinking about them. I only mentioned her because 1 I've heard about her before and 2 because of the gory situation she suffered and being permanently disfigured but not letting it affect her mentally.
It's literaly a trap in Saw 4.
Thank god she blacked out too, I can't imagine how experiencing more of that would damage your psyche
that kids a trooper fr fr
just thinking of it makes my head hurt
10 minutes of getting your fucking head ripped off is insane 😭😭 that poor girl
and she seemed so light hearted afterwards!! shes such a brave soul
@@AriTheInterloper she’s an absolute trooper. I would’ve straight up given up lol
Women's pain treshold is so insanely high dude, what an absolute legend of a child
I'm usually not really moved by things I see online, but her story made me cry a bit..
I felt sick thinking how much pain she must have been in 😢 That poor girl and all her gorgeous red hair. She is TOUGH to be able to survive and carry on.
8:30 "scars dont define me" wow i am just absolutely floored at this girls courage and resolve. stronger than me on my best days
and even with all her scars, she's still so pretty (at least to me)
So much Papa lately. This man is indefatigable.
I have a feeling hunter might get in trouble if he ever tries to pronounce that word.
Indubitably
I’m gonna like your comment just for that new vocabulary word alone
Gubernatorial
The man's hopped up on the 20 pizzas he just ate, he's riding that caloric energy wave
Hi, rollercoaster tech again, glad to see a carnival edition of these nightmare scenarios 💀
5:20 funnily enough I just became certified to inspect the pendulum ride at my park as of this vid, (though the build’s closer to the one that’s falling apart at 6:19), and I have to say it is SCARY how easy it is to neglect pendulum rides. By manufacturing standards, the open gears inside these are supposed to be lubricated every few hours, you’re supposed to constantly check for cracks, and no bolts can be loose whatsoever. To let it get so bad that a whole section of SEATS falls out? Yeah that’s a few years behind bars for the mechanic who signed off on that.
7:21 I think it’s absolutely wild that this was written off as a manufacturing fault and that the operators/technicians weren’t held responsible cause catching hair in the MACHINE shouldn’t even be a possibility. I can’t find anywhere that says what held on to her that tightly, be it a gear or a restraint or something, so I’m honestly stumped on this one.
9:20 10:24 these really suck because it takes a multitude of factors to get this to happen, let alone TWICE. For one, most modern rides incorporate seatbelts for this purpose. 99% of the time, straps/belts are mainly done out of redundancy while the actual restraints, in this case probably a lap bar, hold you in place. On top of this, most big rollercoasters, especially inverted ones, take advantage of g-force to keep you in your seat even if a restraint were to fail, (despite certain white-knuckle stories you might hear). Just looking at the footage here it’s pretty clear why they got thrown off since these things are spinning in a very non-euclidean direction, thus propelling guests in multiple directions, + there has to be some serious neglect on the technicians’ parts for letting lap bars for FLAT rides fail. Honestly seat belts are not that hard to add.
12:00 this has to be an older model of drop ride cause most of the ones I know, (granted I don’t work with carnival rides), use magnets to control the slowing of the drop followed by shock cylinders that let the gondolas lower into a fixed position smoothly. This was likely a fully mechanical ride that lost its controlling mechanism and had no failsafes to prevent a ground collision. Also it’s incredibly funny that the operators and even the organizers bailed out after hearing that one of their rides broke and the government probably hasn’t done anything about it. Like here at actual theme parks, if you as a technician sign off on a ride as OK to operate, everyday you’re signing a legal document that’s fully usable in court in the event where someone gets injured or killed because of something YOU were supposed to check. They *will* send your ass to jail if they catch you lacking and someone gets hurt.
13:10 HOW DO YOU PUT TWO RIDES SO CLOSE TOGETHER THEY SMASH INTO EACH OTHER? 🤯
14:50 Again another sad case of G-force working against someone along with neglecting the application of a seatbelt. Anything can be said about the restraint failure since the investigations were so vague about it, but my best guess is just neglecting to inspect the parts that actually held the restraint in place upon locking.
16:27 A seatbelt as the main restraint mechanism??? You gotta regularly inspect the fraying of the straps on those things man… If you got a ride that uses soft harnesses, you *really* need to replace them if they start tearing.
17:51 Was not expecting to see one about Operator error honestly. Guess that park just hired anyone to operate those heavy machines..
19:28 And hence why height requirements exist.
Honestly I thought regular amusement parks were ghetto enough outside of the big name ones but yeah I’m never going to a theme park again lol.
Thanks for your comment, it's really interesting to get your insights as someone knows about the mechanics and operations involved.
Question. How often do they pull a sea world move where a ride fails and state fair carnies get it cheap because of that?
Ngl I kinda dig this is a conspiracy theory but I couldn’t tell you. Most carnival rides are built differently for transportation purposes but they definitely do buy *used* attractions, possibly ones sent in by theme parks that phased them out.
Hunter actually got one wrong. 2 people died in the Ohio fireball
nice to hear from a rollercoaster tech! do they buy used carnival rides how people buy cars for spare parts? like do companies buy damaged rides "fix" them and use or re sell? or are they permanently not allowed to be used anymore
Man, this is eerie. When I was 10 or 11 I went to a local carnival and went on the "Scrambler" ride which was basically the "Sizzler". I was pretty short but was tall enough to fit in the ride. Part way through the ride I felt like I had to hang on the front metal bar and my legs couldn't touch the foot capture, so my legs began to flail. A few seconds later the ride stopped, and the attendant banned me from the ride. I thought he was being a jerk at the time, but dude probably saved my life. Being so young I didn't realize how much in danger I was really in. Thanks attendant guy for banning me and telling the others not to let me on either. Note I wasn't struggling to stay on that hard, but who knows if it kept going.
Oh my god yes I was on one just like that called the Scrambler as a kid. I was sitting on the outside-most spot on our seats and felt like I was gonna be flung out of it. Had to hold me and my much smaller friend down. On top of that, idk if it’s because there was like no one there, but the carnie kept it going for WAY too long. I remember the distinct point it stopped being fun and I just closed my eyes praying it would stop 😭
@@antlersev yeah, I was on it with another I forgot to mention I was on the inside my right against the car and pressed against it. The girl next to me crushed me a bit. Probably helped keep me in place like you did for the other. Sometimes when you are scared though a few seconds can feel like minutes. I suppose it could be that due to less people they decided to give you your money's worth. It felt like that when I would go on less busy days.
When my dad was down on his luck, alone, travelling, just trying to make money he joined the carnies. They would all get drunk and smoke crack every night. Even my dad smoked crack with them. I couldn't believe my ears. That shit is a WILD subculture. He said you would never let your kids on these rides if you even knew half of it 😭
NO HE DIDNT
@@CULT_OF_TRAGEDY No, he literally did. I am completely serious. Now he's married to a filipina chick younger than me. I disowned him.
@@UndercoverNormie Don't pay attention, to this guy, he's either a bot or a troll and he's been copying this reply on a lot of the comments
@@UndercoverNormie That's absolutely crazy, thanks for sharing. Your dad made some less than ideal decisions, by the sounds of it.
@@theRPGmaster Alcohol is a helluva drug. 10 years sober myself
Wendigoon would watch this and say "Is there something funny about this hunter?"
"Do you really think this is the sort of reaction the viewers deserve?"
The interaction after the baby disappears in Greylock is still their best instance of that.
read that in his voice
@@SurShuruand the kid in feed the pigs that got shot in the face with a shotgun
100% lol
Dang this is the third time I've heard that first story. What's sad is his girlfriend at the time blames or blamed herself for his death because he brought her to the carnival to cheer her up after her grandfather's funeral took place earlier that day
What broke me was with thr injuries she sustained she wasn't aware what happened to Tyler until she'd come out of practically a days long surgery
This guy honestly looks like someone that could control carnival rides.
He does look like a carnie ride operator, and I mean that in the best way.
He also looks like he controls fire
So fire and carnival rides a man of many talents
@@thebean6496 a renaissance man
Yeah probably a ride called "Fire" or something
@LucasIvy yeah like fire sorcerer or something
I love how not once we're the rides stopped, likely because the one running them was higher than the rides flung the kids they killed.
that HAS to be the reason. mistaking the screaming for people having fun is one thing, but they should be able to tell something is wrong from where they're standing. i feel like its way too easy to get this job, and if they made it any harder state fairs would cease to exist.
I will say some rides can't just stop completely because that wouldn't end well for the people in them, the force has to go somewhere so it has to slowly stop, which is what i imagine the emergency buttons actually do
@@notyocheese1234it's almost always a 20 year old high as shit just eating Cheetos and staring at nothing
And not even the zaza in some cases💀
This reminds me of when I was 14 and on the old wooden roller coaster at Eliches 6 Flags in Denver. No seatbelt, just a lap bar that is shared by everyone in the row. I was scrawny, and the person next to me was older and larger, so the lap bar didn't touch my lap. I remember holding on for dear life during the entire ride because I could feel myself slipping out of the seat. It wasn't until watching this that I realized how much I had dissociated from and minimized that experience. I'm grateful to be alive.
So in 1990 I was thrown off a fair ride. This was before they had over the head bars so it was just a lap bar holding me and my dad. I was 4 ft tall and he was 6ft 3 so there was a looot of size difference. I was sucked under the bar ,through the seat entrance, i was slung through the back size and luckily landed in Georgia red clay. I broke my elbow, my shoulder bruised my ribs and eyes. We did sue them and I hope it contributed to more safety measures. I’m still scared of that feeling of not being able to stop. I’m so sorry my dad had to watch it helpless as he waited for the ride to stop.
this is absolutely horrifying and i’m so sorry that you and your family went through this, but i’m so glad you lived and are here to tell the tale.
This has “trust me bro” energy
God damn id sue them into oblivion
@@dukeofgotham4311 fr tho, but i dont wanna be wrong
@@dukeofgotham4311What’s the use in saying this? You want a clap? Just keep that to yourself. Imagine you decide to relive your trauma and some guy goes, “yeah right buddy.”
These rides are the equivalent of willingly getting into a kaijus hand and hoping it doesn’t throw you into the ground
Absolutely perfect description
Nah its more like getting into a cave and for some reason the guide just goes "fuck it!" and blows it up
I prefer the snacks and lil games you can win plushies in. I usually only ride some tame rides and maybe those elephant rides, I ain’t riding anything that goes upside down or flings me 💀
@@RocksterStudios-tt3eh the tame kiddie rides in this video still killed/maimed people. I wouldn't go on any of them, the roller coaster i went on once had dogshit restraints.
Stickbug cameo brought me joy 10:57
Carnivals got stupid expensive nowadays, like you need to save over $100 in order to do anything at the carnival. For stuff that is this shitty? Not worth it lmao
Anywhere that's pay-per-ride is highway robbery. ESPECIALLY if you live near any sort of actual theme park or amusement park.
Like, for me it's "do I wanna spend $50-100 per person on cheap ramshackle carnival rides, or do I wanna spend $50-$80 a person and drive 30 minutes to Cedar Point?"
True. They're a scam. Even the food is like 20$ for a mid burger.
The last one I went to was in 2019. It was $20 just to get in and about $5 per ride ticket and most of the rides took two or three tickets. The food was absurdly expensive as well! A sausage with fries and a Coke was $15.
Double that if you have kids 😂
Save a hundred dollars? Are you okay? Are you eating?
I hope they got more than 50k for that lawsuit Papa
I came here to comment this exact thing.
Damn yall both beat me to it
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@@ninjadandy9166there was a man who was paid ONLY 50k for a loss of his wife by disney. Yes, her death was disney’s fault.
I got more than that for my carnival ride accident. Had 18 staples in my head but im good now
Oh my stars you just unlocked a buried memory.
It was the Curse of the Mummy Ride at Universal Studios Florida.
The shoulder bar came lose RIGHT before the ride plummeted into pitch black darkness.
And my arms grew three aizes that day, I absolutely Hate-Gripped that thing.
For like 5 minutes, my only focus was to hold that bar. I have no idea what happened for the ride itself.
There was also a point at the Harry Potter ride that a Dementor swings out at you.
Im 6'2.
The ride was NOT made for tall people, because I absolutely booted that thing by accident.
Final Destination scarred me as a kid so I NEVER get on anything at the fair. I just walk and watch my folks and eat cotton candy. Mostly the only thing I go for and funnel cakes
Even the teacups are scary at fairs
I saw a video of one of the cups just disconnecting and they glided on the ground. I don't trust that they maintain them at all@@ZombieRatFlesh
I just show up for the entertainment when something goes wrong 😈
Hmmmyeeesh,indubitably.
Elizabeth is such a champ. Had one of the most horrific accidents happen to her and she still fight and managed to be optimistic. Hope she continues to do well.
I almost died at my local fair because the drop towers belt wasn’t clipping, I held on for my fucking life as an 8 year old, to the point where my ass lifted off the seat and the only thing holding me was my mom and my own two hands
Something similar happened to me, at the Oklahoma State Fair.
The guy strapping everyone in, he didn't make sure my harness was on all the way. Once the ride started, I started slipping out of the seat, thank god my dad had a hold of my shirt
Literally the only drop-tower ride I will ever go on is the Tower of Terror.
Both because of the theatrics and because the open air ones always seem tailor made for accidents.
Damn, that was my biggest fear as a kid. Something going wrong. I don't trust those machines. And people made fun of me for not joining. Thank God you didn't fall off🫢
No you didnt
Y’all living like the movie final destination!
Elizabeth is such a trooper. I hope all the best for her.
8:34 I'm actually sobbing right now... what an actual badass. Rock on girl!
I noticed at 11:14 the victim Hailey died 5 years ago today
RIP
One time the ride I was on with my brother at the state fair malfunctioned. It was a pendulum ride called the Pharaoh's Fury, with a long boat that swung very high in either direction. It stopped working and started swinging slowly back and forth at the bottom without the manager being able to stop it. It made me and the other passengers sick. The operator had to try and steady it himself so people could get off
Edit: I made this comment before I got to the part INVOLVING the Pharaoh's Fury lmfao
we had such similar experiences with the same ride wtf lol, im glad ur safe!
NO IT DIDNT
Omggg I'm so sorry for laughing but that made me laugh so hard. That's so shitty, it's not fast enough to be really dangerous but it's too fast for you to get off, so you just have to sit there being fucking seasick. I'm so sorry that happened to you oh my god
@@dangerxbadger2300 But you can still bet your ass I went on that thing next year. It's a fun ride!
Can you imagine how even more sketchy shit was back in the 80s-90s? Goddamn. Yeah, you wont see me on one of those fuckin rides.
Stop upvoting these bots people damn
Hunter is posting so frequently, lets hope he doesnt feel "burnt out"
I'm hoping he's able to jeep this pace because it's all just stuff he's actually interested in or having fun with.
If he does he's fucked. He made this channel to keep himself from being burnt out on animation.
His ability to control fire prevents Hunter from burning out
Because he can control fire
I mean now that he’s got a whole staff of people, they type up the scripts and he just sits and reads and laughs. Then they edit it. Not too much work there
I rode on the sizzler once and it was the worst experience of my life. The people working there stuffed three people in one seat and the bar wouldn’t even close all the way down. I remember when the ride started, I immediately was shoved to the edge of the seat and grabbed the safety bar in an attempt to keep myself from flying out of the seat. I ended up getting bruises from being shoved around and couldn’t even enjoy the ride because I was trying to hold onto the safety bar for dear life. -1000000000/10 would not recommend.
I like to imagine that when Hunter gets really really angry his hair lights of flame like Hades in the old Hercules movie
It’d definitely be a bright green. Idk why it just makes sense in my head.
My first Job ever was as a Carny I operated a car ride that went in circles. On my first day I was working the ride and made sure all the kids were in their seats I checked and then looked away and pressed start on the ride terminal to start the ride. well in the few seconds that took a child maybe 7 had hoped out of the car and was in front of the car when it started and of course the poor kid got ran over by the car. Everyone was screaming and freaking out. I felt like a horrible person because it was my responsibility to make sure they are fully seated and I missed him hoping out of his car. He lived and only had a broken arm and some bruises. I quit the job that nightt.
The Elizabeth case shot a shiver threw my body, that's just horrible..
I am a firefighter/EMT and my station has been briefed on a guy they say can control fire...
I'm an EMT and we have one strange rule ... about a guy who they say can control fire.
Don't climb the stairs in the middle of the controlled fire
NO YOURE NOT
I can also control fire.
Well, at least I can start them...
Anytime you do these videos covering any kind of tragedy or mis-happenings and laugh I can completely understand where you're coming from papa. The incidents are so grisly and horrific at times you can't help but laugh at how poorly words can describe it or how cartoonishly awful and shocking the reality of things are. Personally I think you keeping it light hearted and spinning it positively makes for a much better dampener for this kind of info. Love the content as always!
Here in germany, all rides on carnivals have to inspected by an TÜV official (kinda like OSHA, I think) before you are allowed to open it to the public. And that means EVERY time its assembled in EVERY town the carnival moves to.
I know of the TÜV in the UK. They also inspect and test playground equipment that play equipment manufacturers produce and all newly designed and manufactured play equipment for playgrounds usually have a TÜV testing certificate to show that the item was tested and is compliant to the current standards for playgrounds. At least the reputable commercial manufacturers will have the certification for all their equipment from basic play panels all the way to swings and large climbing units. I know they also carry tests on items and equipment in other sectors aswell.
The Cannibal mentioned‼️‼️ 0:10
Hell yeah the only amusement park in Utah! 😂
As he was literally saying "Bad, crazy rides." I mean, it's a pretty crazy coaster, but in the good way. It definitely isn't bad.
@@killswitch1982 it’s a must-ride every time us fry sauce munchers visit lol
Maybe
I still like the Colossus more, just bc the lines aren't as long, and you get the double loops
7:30
That poor baby. On her first ride ever, is just nuts !
that ride went on for 10 mins?! the rides here you normally get like 2-4 mins, man that's hell...
When I was about 6 years old, we went to the county fair.
I was on my dad's shoulders, so I had a picture perfect view of an elderly woman falling out of the ferris wheel basket and landing on the center axle.
She hung there for quite some time.
I remembered it so vividly, that I looked it up years later and managed to find the article, (edited to protect privacy)
"A 60-year-old woman is in the hospital after surviving a 25-foot fall from a ferris wheel.
------ suffered a broken femur, ribs and collar bone after she slipped out of her seat and fell onto the center axle of the big wheel at the ------ District Fair
The wheel has been shut down and is undergoing an inspection, but so far authorities have not found any mechanical failure with the ride. It could reopen as soon as tomorrow. All the fair's rides were inspected before the it opened last week."
Published: Sep. 30, 2007 at 1:33 AM CDT
Seems like she survived though! Anyways, thanks Dad for inadvertantly making me bear witness. Core memory.
I can still see her blue shirt spotlighted in my memories.
That is haunting
Sorry you had to witness that
That sucks honestly, childhood trauma from witnessing violent things like that is probably one of the worst experiences a person can go through especially with time
Bad core memory but at least you can now upgrade it with the knowledge that lady survived that nightmare.
Did you copy and paste this?
Jeeeeez that had to be traumatic for you dude. Glad she made it though.
Theme park guy here: We don’t claim carnivals 🤷🏻♂️🎢
I love amusement parks because they regularly regulate everything and if they suspect something is wrong they’ll shut the ride down and there is a way to escape if the ride stops. They have safety precautions and even on the most violent rides I felt safe.
Though I know bad things can happen, most of the time with amusement parks (at least from my experience and what I’ve heard) is that people take it seriously and so do the parks if someone gets injured, even if some of the owners try to deny it, at least the victims/survivors are somewhat compensated. Can’t say it for every amusement park, but my favorite ones are Adventureland and Busch Gardens, they have strict regulations and rules on who can and cannot ride certain rides and while it may be a bummer, they’re legit trying to help people. The people operating the rides are super fun and know how to make the experience worthwhile. I remember when Verbolten first opened (Busch Gardens) and I was so scared of the drop, but at least I knew I was safe and now it’s one of my favorite rides!
At Kennywood, here in Pittsburgh, there was this one ride that kid-me absolutely adored. It had these acute-angled /\ robot legs, with a little pod on the end of each one, and the ride would spin around while stretching and retracting the robot legs in sequence.
It was one kid per pod, and the low passenger capacity per go-round could result in super long lines. Kid-me didn't care. I'd come off the ride and sprint right to the back of the line so I could go again, over and over.
One day, though, I settled into my pod, the operator threw the switch, and *PFOOM!* A sudden gust of wind blasted up from the depths of the machine, spraying us all with old leaves, forsaken popsicle sticks, and ancient gum wrappers.
That was the end of that ride. It never ran again, and eventually they replaced it with something else. If I had to guess, the pneumatics blew out all at once.
Anyway, that's my story.
I almost flew off the jackrabbit at Kennywood. I was younger, pretty skinny, and the ride only had handlebars that would clank down on your thighs. Big, old ass rickety coaster. We were going around one of the corners that's traveling upwards and I started sliding up and up. My knees slid up and I grabbed the bar as my knees came out from under. Almost shit my pants I was so scared lol.
My cousin went on the Magic Carpet years ago, and her shoulder safety bar thingy went up halfway through the ride. She had to pull it down and hold on for life.
Ive never been on a fair ride since
NO IT DIDNT
We used to have a travelling carnival that would come to town and set up in an empty dirt lot across from the grocery store. It was always considered shady as hell for years until one year three of the carnies got arrested for shooting pellet guns at people who were on the rides. The carnival stopped coming here after that and hasn't been here for years. I think the city council permanently banned them from coming back to our town.
The editing on these videos is fantastic! The dancing stick bug really cracked me up.
That got me too haha I rewound it there to see it again lol
when hunter rocks a japanese BIOHAZARD resident evil shirt, it gives me life
Why tf does Papa Meat censor the videos
@@vipr1142 RUclips every year has stricter and stricter guidelines that have to be followed, otherwise the channel will receive strikes and can be deleted all together.
Makes me always scour the internet looking for it haha. No luck yet, only similar ones, but it's an awesome shirt. I'd buy it the second I could find it.
The worst thing that ever happened to me at a carnival was when I was 16 and my cousin was 14. The carnie operating the ride asked if we were sisters and kept waving as we rode by and keep going “another ride” we thought we’d never get off
The fact that the ride went on for 10 minutes while that little girl was being slowly torn apart is crazy.
You’re telling me no one around screamed to stop the ride? They just let it happen?
Have you ever seen how the carnies "operate" those rides? They hit a button, gaze towards the horizon, smoke and just wait until shit is over.
What the heck kinda ride even goes for 10 minutes? I've only known rides to run for a couple minutes per load of people. Maybe it was like the other reply says, and the attendant was having a particularly good daydream
@@asterv843 had a carnie run a ride for like 10 minutes on me lmao. Almost flew out of it myself. They really just dissociate while you’re on 😭
I refuse to go on any rides after learning about how many catastrophic injuries they incur
I feel you, but if you drive every day, that ride could be your last.
Also, considering the ammount of people that use them, these accidents are rare in nature
Meaning that you are probably safer on the six flags roller coster than on any car
@@ricardofernandosotomayordo9685 I mean, it's basically in the same vein as when people are deathly afraid of shark attacks or flying in an airplane, but have zero issues with driving everyday of their lives. They are technically considered irrational fears, due to their incredibly rare occurrences. But obviously, that still doesn't stop people from having these phobias.
It was the scalping store that did it for me
I get peoples fear of them, but you wouldn't stop going outside to the store because someone might run you over. or never walk on an uneven floor for fear of tripping and hitting your head. everything in life has risks unfortunately doing daily activities can be deadly in the right situation.
9:15 I've been on the sizzler and its still at a local fair of ours every year, i will never ride it again😬
That’s one of my favs 💀😂
Born and raised from Traverse City, MI here. Don't go to Cherry Fest. It is the worst fucking event to ever happen to humanity and it makes it town absolutely untravelable. I want to move so bad
I worked with a guy who was a proud ex-carny. He would tell me constantly how little was holding the rides together and how most can be effectively turned into deathtraps by removing literally a single piece like a pin or screw.
I've worked at carnivals as a teen. I would never ride anything or take my kids now. Alot of ppl don't know most entrance tickets have a disclaimer on the back. Buying that ticket prevents you from suing if you are injured or killed. Thats a huge red flag
papa meat should cover action park, like the amount of injuries and wacky dangerous rides.
I think he already did, I think he mention some of the incidents of action park in his deadliest amusement park rides video about 7 or 8 months ago
The Elizabeth one made be sad as shit man.
8:35 brave girl. Be well and strong
In my local theme park someone was able to take off their safety harness only because their rain coat was caught. They fell down, concussed the guy in front of her and landed on the tracks and then was subsequently run over by the same ride she was riding. She died but there was a photo taken by the photo booth at the end of the ride.
what the fuck oh my god
What theme park? Never heard of this happening.
@@coasterkittythemepark Oakwood
@@eldudo13 Found it, her name was Hayley Williams, happened in 2004. The guy she hit was actually a 10 year old boy, which is all the more tragic.
@@virtualducky The rides still going but it's called drenched now and the employees push the safety bars way down.
8:30 that poor girl 😢 it reminds me of one of my first carnival rides at a creepy nearly completely empty carnival, which was also a teacup-like ride. I felt like I was going to be flung out of the ride because it was going too fast (my brother and I were like 5 and 6 at the time) so we screamed for the guy to stop the ride, but I swear he just laughed at us and made the ride go faster. I think that was when we begged our parents to leave the carnival, lol. It looked like the carnival from silent hill in the middle of some forest in upstate New York and was almost completely empty except for a few workers…which made the whole experience even creepier.
Papa meat has shown up more this month than my actual papa my entire life.
Poor Elizabeth. What a trooper though.
If only she had her hair in a bun...
Or maybe the operator should've been more responsible.
Years ago i was in line for the zipper ride, it was a long and circular rectangular metal beam that the caged seats circled and spun around on. i was waiting there when i heard something clunk real loud from somewhere up on the ride, a second or two passes and then i hear an impact infront of me somewhere on the ground, i look down and i see a huge gear lying on the ground infront of me, i didn't stay in line after that
i went on the zipper a few days ago and i was tweaking when it went backwards
@@lex5198 You're braver than me lmfao, that falling gear changed the ride for me
The Zipper's the only reason I go to the fair still.
Dang I've literally been on that ride
6:30 surprisingly the beach blaster wasn’t shut down it’s a pretty fun ride you can still go on it today
7:13 my first time driving with the driving teacher I got hit. Wasn’t my fault lady was going 55mph in a 30 mph zone that was residential, we know because of the 85ft skid. She didn’t get charged dad worked for the city.
Some guy that worked for the city was drunk hit my girls car and her sisters while they were parked and the guy didnt get a DUI or even breathalyzed the cops sent them home and did some corrupted b.s where they almost blamed my girl and her sister
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You're doing God's work sir
Woah do you control fire to.
Legend.
Thank you, I hate having to watch them even when I pay for premium like wth
9:00 I've actually seen someone do that with my own eyes.
You know when nick says its tragic its some horrific stuff
You and Oompaville should do a video where you both read the most insane child death cases and try to get through it without laughing. I guarantee you two won't make it all the way through.
Edit: And to keep you from getting canceled, every time you laugh, you donate to a children's charity.
tbh this would be such an interesting video but so fucked up 😭😭 (and probably looking at ridiculous deaths not just kids)
This would be amazing I love both of their videos so much
But he's not laughing at them dying, he's laughing at the crazy situation which makes total sense 😂
Maybe just have them react to people who’ve gotten a Darwin Award, and not just kids
I remember being at the state fair around 2017 and getting on this ride called "the yoyo" after i had just eaten a corndog stuffed with 2 mini hotdogs and drinking a large rootbeer, i vomited up what i had eaten as soon as i got off the ride, and istg you could see chunks of hotdog in the puke, i got a cool off brand light up minecraft sword from it though.
8:47 that young woman is fucking tough as hell physically, mentally, and emotionally
Emotional is mental
@@FullyArmedNightOwlEmotions can be physical too. Hence its own category.
“Saint Thomas AQUA-NUS”… this is new levels of incredible pronunciation. Wait till Isaiah hears this one.. Thank you, Papa!
I'm so glad you mentioned it 😂 I was forced to go to Catholic school for 7 years and I immediately caught it
i almost died on a magic carpet ride at a carnival. I was a little kid like 8 and my father basically forced me to go on it. The guy running the machine said id be fine I was definitly to small for the restraints and if it wasnt for my father being next to me securing me the best he could i would have flown many feet to my death. That one experience ruined rides for me forever and i will never go on any sort of ride again. I actually still sometimes have night terrors about it years later.
There were many more i was forced onto in my childhood. I hate rides so much id rather shoot myself in the foot than get on any ride except maybe a Farris wheel.
Tyre Sampson's death
In March 2022, 14-year-old Tyre Sampson died after falling from the FreeFall ride at ICON Park in Orlando, Florida. An investigation found that Sampson was not properly secured in his seat, and that the ride's operators had manually adjusted the harness sensors to allow for larger riders. The ride was permanently closed, and Slingshot Group, the ride's owner and operator, paid a $250,000 fine to the state of Florida. Imagine being flung like 100+ feet in the air, and just flying off the ride like wtf 🫣.
Didn’t he cover this story in the amusement park video?
@@BayLeaf64 It was the Human Trebuchet at Middlemoor Waterpark in England
When I was 11 my friend convinced me to go on to one of those Moby Dick rides bc according to her it wasn't scary at all. I screamed for my mommy all the way through and I puked on my friend's shoes afterwards. Now nearly 30 years later I haven't been on any ride that goes over 5mph and seeing these examples proves to me that I've made the right choice.
I feel so horrible for all these people that got hurt. That little girl that got scalped? OMG! 😭
NO YOU DID NOT
Pussy
@@CULT_OF_TRAGEDYI did not what? Go on another ride again? Bc then, yes.
@@NoukSilver NOPE
@@CULT_OF_TRAGEDY Okay, guess you know my life better than me.
17:25 Once I went on one of those kiddy and sketchy swings with my younger brother at our county fair. The lady working with it went around and buckled everyone else, but she never got to my younger brother. She started the ride without my brother being strapped in. I will literally never forget the look on his face as he faced backwards towards me and frantically grasped into the sides of the swing. His whole life definitely flashed before his eyes in that moment. I have no doubt that that little five year old was absolutely convinced that he was going to die that day. When the operator realized, she had to run around in circles just to catch up with my brother. The ride was still going while she was sprinting to catch up with the swing and buckle him in.
I once went to a carnival type thing with a giant ferris wheel that was sitting on four red bricks standing on the skinny end
NO YOU REALLY DIDNT
Ahh the sizzler… it’s a miracle I didn’t die growing up going to these every single year. I remember the rust on the doors of the zipper oh so well
Fall festival in evansville Indiana (which is currently happening funny enough) has a zipper. Rode it and decided that while exhilarating, I didn’t feel like dying in a ride with duct tape for cushions and master locks holding the doors anymore lmao
Rode the zipper with my 9 year old cousin, like 20 years ago, and she started puking A LOT while our cage was flipping over and over. We were both covered in her vomit by the time we got off.
....But at least we were alive!
We had a ride like the Grasshopper at our county fair several years ago. I rode it with a loved one who was significantly bigger than me, and the only restraint was a lap bar that didn't lock into place. When it started moving, I was lifted completely out of my seat multiple times (because the lap bar hovered six inches above my legs), and my friend had to trap me under his thigh as he held onto me so I wouldn't be launched from the ride. I lost my keys and almost lost my phone during the event, and we had to search the field for my belongings afterwards.
Also! The ride at 0:11 seconds in is called The Cannibal, and it's in an amusement park called Lagoon, which is staffed mostly by teenagers. That initial drop is over 90 degrees, it dangles you upside down for several seconds, and the only thing holding you in place is a lap restraint. It's a rush, but if that single lap restraint fails, you'd be dead the second the ride began.
I live in a small town that has nothing interesting to do but every spring break the same carnival comes for four days and literally EVERYONE goes. It’s all we have lmao
I thought you had drinking as well, what happened, did someones uncle drink it all?
@@martian8987 we aren’t too big on drinking, it’s either vapes or weed from local college kids 😭
NO YOI DONT
My cousins had to hold my shoulders when my harness came undone on the Ring of Fire ride which is a coaster that does continuous loops. Then my dad yelled at me when I got off the ride in tears. Good times 😌
And they wonder why we go no contact with our parents when we are older
NO THEY DIDNT
Dad of the year right there
@@CULT_OF_TRAGEDY oh yeah he did 👨🏼
I knew id find someone else who almost died on Ring of Fire. My best friend and i were always small for our age and we went on this ride at 12. When it got to the top and we were just suspended for however long, we both almost fell out of the harness. We were luckily in the front and we braced ourselves on the plexiglass. We both looked at eachother and said nothing but we were acknowledging to eachother that we knew we might die. Thats not a fun thought to have at 12.
Our state fair had a decapatation one year, the zipper ride catch fire . The man mini drop tower come lose . I worked there year when I was young and it’s crazy on tear down night . How fast everything folds up and the chaos that goes with it. Everything but the giant wheel and few food trucks are left by morning
"You got your wish"
Absolute monkey's paw wish logic. Love it.
10:00 super sizzler
I remember awhile ago I went to Circus Circus in Vegas and my shoulder harness for the roller coaster flew up right before the loops. I just grabbed it and pulled it back down and screamed until it was over. Now I’m paranoid about any ride. ESPECIALLY Farris wheels for some reason. I’ll get back on a roller coaster before I’d ever get back on those
Back in early 2002, I got on a rollercoaster for the very first time. Nothing bad happened but it was my very last time ever getting on a ride of any kind. It was the Big Bad Wolf at Bush Gardens in Williamsburg, Virginia.
I love the big bad wolf hahahah
My only real experience with these sort of rides was a yearly event they used to hold at the I-X Center in Cleveland, which is like a massive former-WWII airplane hanger that's now used as a convention center. They would have dozens of these sort of rides set up in late winter early spring (aka before Cedar Point would open for the season) along with a massive Ferris wheel that needed it's own custom skylight to fit in the building. As a kid it was awesome, but it got shut down for good after 2020.
I don't recall any accidents ever happening there beyond just people puking on rides though. I assume the production value along with the lack of weather damage helped.
12:15 the prolapser
I laughed so hard at this
Secretly controls fire at 0:53
11:00 - 11:06 I'm sorry, but I had to try really REALLY hard not to laugh at the mental image of that. I know in real life it would be horrifying and gory, but that is a literal slap-stick comedy movie joke. Like, I know for a fact I've seen bits like that in several movies.
Classic running through a field of rakes getting hit by every one
As someone who had a seizure, driving and completely wrecked my body requiring multiple surgeries and had a seizure off of second floor, balcony that required more surgeries. I want to commend the young girl who had the tragic accident with her hair being pulled for 10 minutes I can’t even imagine the horror and pain she was feeling, her outlook on life and her situation is just amazing. My prayers are with her, and I hope she gets compensated very highly, because that type of negligence nearly mmmmmmmm
A lot of these feel like if you had any fictional villain who creates death traps just go crazy, like the fact that some people are launched especially on rides with space in the name just makes me think of the ride just turning into a missile and launching parts of it at the other rides, that is how much of a liability they feel like.
Connor laughing at kids getting killed and telling people to be more respectful is honestly beautiful yet so tragic.
8:05 when I was in the hospital after the stroke when I was in a coma that's how I communicated with my friends and family
How does it work? Is it morse code?
2:46 that happened at the local TRAVERSE CITY Michigan Cherry Festival
crazy he mentioned our fair,,,,i LOVED that ride growing up (1001 nights before)
First Incognito Mode/Internet Historian (Cooking) with the State Hospital, now this 😂
Definitely a surprise, for sure
At 0:14 you can see how he controlled fire in the thumbnail
One of my friend's cousins got decapitated on one of the rides. Scary man. My brother used to work for a city and he saw them drinking beer when assembling them. Huge problem.
Prime example why I don't ride I don't trust others with my life
14:59 like mother like son lol
Elizabeth is literally such an inspiration. Such a strong young girl, I can't say that I'd ever have that much hope after something like that. What a brave girl ☹️😞
8:20 I don't want to watch this one Papa, it's scary and sad 🥲