correction on the ride of steel at 27:32, the veteran with no legs who got on the ride. the staff was extremely unwilling to allow him on, but after the him and his family became very upset that he couldnt go on, mangement allowed him to. and as some who regularly goes on the ride of steel, you most definitely need your legs to stay in that ride
Tilikum's story is one that make me so so sad. Orcas live in a matriarcle society where female orcas are the 'dominant' gender, while in captivity at sealand Tilikum was frequently bitten and injured by the two female orcas enclosed with him, to the point where the handlers put him into a separate sleep area at night which was way too small for any orca but especially for one as big as Tilikum. This orca was abused his entire captive life and was then pitted as a monster in media for actions that stemmed from that abuse. I mourn the lives lost because of Tilikum, no one deserves to die in such a horrific way, but he should've been more of a lesson to captors that these beautiful animals should only be in the wild, not in concrete walls.
yes! i remember watching the documentary called ‘blackfish’ on netflix about seaworld and the nature of the deaths that had happened. one of the really trained divers, ken peters, was doing a show with tilikum and the orca was suspected to be attempting to drown him-many people say that this isn’t the case and the orca was simply “toying” with peters. but in my personal opinion, i don’t believe ken would have survived and eventually got away if it wasn’t because of his diving experience. tilikum had him under the water for MINUTES at a time, bringing him up for air, and then back down again. not entirely sure if peters was majorly injured, but the experience is still so traumatic for both the orca and the human.
20:05 small correction, this is a common mistake but he wasn’t exactly decapitated. From what I understand his spine was severed, which basically meant he was internally decapitated, but his head didn’t actually fall off like many dramatizations would have you believe.
I keep trying to find a definitive source on this!! I have no idea why it's not known. The only reason why I'm interested is because I saw the news report on TV when I was younger, and there were two tarps at the bottom of the slide. I feel like that fact would make the ensuing (or arguably lack of) legal proceedings a bit more important??? Like??? It's one thing to have an internal decapitation, and another to literally have the kid's head come off.
@@MeeYeeWeeWee Nope. That's completely false and just comes from early news sources who didnt have all the information or from dramatizations who misinterpreted the information given. And some AI slop channels have only furthered the misunderstanding.
I feel especially bad for tyre as the poor boy KNEW his safety restraints weren’t fitting around him properly, he was signalling to staff and even telling people he didn’t feel safe while the ride was still stationary, tyre before the ride got sent up turned to his friend and went “please tell my mum I love her.” He knew that he wasn’t safe and letting him get off would have only taken seconds. Staff ignored signals from the ride itself telling them a restraint on the ride wasn’t shit properly and just over rid it because “tyre was a bigger boy” and what upsets me most is that most people when talking about his death will add in the footage that was filmed of it. If they black the screen out they still make sure you can hear him impacting the ground, it’s disgusting so thank you for being one of the first I’ve seen not use the footage and use just a regular footage of the ride.
I don't feel as bad because the full story from people who were there at the time is the ride operators were not allowing him on the ride because he was too big for the restraints and so he and a chaperone for the group there started loudly accusing them of racism until they gave in.
@@ssj5shadowgohanx2I'm from Western New York where Darian is located, and the general consensus among most people out this way was it was a suicide. He wanted to die on the ride so his family could collect insurance money from the lawsuit.
Anytime Schlitterbahn is brought up I need to weigh in my experience. I visited Schlitterbahn a week before the incident and our family of 4 (Not 3 passengers? Unless I remember wrong) rode the slide despite not meeting the correct weight requirements. It's a big scale that weighs everyone at the same time. The two employees let us through without very much hesitation. After finding out about the tragedy that week after, I definitely reflected on the "what if scenarios". Rides can be so dangerous. You have employees who see the same thing every day and don't think too much about it, coupled with being inspected inadequately for those serious margins of error that cannot be overlooked by ride operators. I don't avoid rides altogether, but it certainly makes you think twice.
I was there a month before the incident and wanted to go on the ride so bad but my mom wouldn’t let me. Thank god. I was a 10 year old who weighed no more than 90 pounds (i was a tiny kid).
39:54 minor correction. Four people (all adults) were killed in this accident and 2 children were uninjured. The details honestly remain the worst Ive ever heard
I too deep dived into that horrific accident and the like 300 page inquest and alll the manuals for the ride etc. the injuries were so so severe. Like none of them drowned, they all died from being crushed into the conveyor belt mechanism either severing spinal cords or equivalent god I hope they didn’t suffer longer than a few seconds
@@abbydoss4967 Its still counted by many as one of our most tragic themepark accidents in Australia, the first usually being the ghost train fire of 1979 at Luna Park Sydney, as is mentioned in the video.
I remember reading that some of the first responders who worked on that accident developed PTSD due to the severity of what they found. If even first responders who spend all day dealing with dead and seriously injured people were that traumatised, it must've been awful.
As a roller coaster enthusiast I would like to stress the fact that modern amusement parks and roller coasters are some of the safest thrills statistically. You are far more likely to be killed in a car crash on the way to the amusement park, or by the food at the amusement park than riding on a roller coaster.
For people scared of things like airplanes and roller coasters, this kind of statistic doesn't have any meaning. Your chances of getting food poisoning at an average restaurant are low but there are sketchy restaurants where your chances are very high. The risk is not evenly distributed.
6:32 fun fact: even at more real racing centered karting tracks, 50 mph can still be considered quite fast especially for beginners, so in an amusement park where no professionals are likely present, it’s very, VERY dangerous
that story about the orca made me start thinking: why has nobody ever attempted to make one of these shows with animatronics? you could apply this to the circus too you cut out all the animal cruelty, all the danger of having such massive live animals on site, and all the time that would be needed to train the animal, in exchange for something that *can't* disobey (because it's a machine) and won't have the risk of dying to some disease or killing somebody
I remember a while back there was a circus (circ du soleil I think) that did feature animatronic animals. The commercials looked so cool and the animals were steampunk themed.
Apart from maybe having to rework the shows, I think it's also because people want to see a LIVE animal. I mean the show becomes a little less impressive when you know it's a robot and not an animal trained for it. It's like a daredevil. That said, I definitely agree that there should be an alternative instead of more animal cruelty
Realistically, beyond the fact that watching what is effectively a several-ton piece of metal wearing the face of an animal do a trick just isn’t nearly as impressive as seeing the real thing (and trust me, I’m not advocating for live animals to be used instead. So many circuses and other places that employ animals-particularly large or critically endangered ones- as part of their acts are incomprehensibly cruel), creating animatronics that not only LOOK lifelike but can MOVE in a convincing and lifelike manner is a task that requires a frankly absurd amount of time, money, and engineering. If it’s a topic that interests you, I would look into the animatronics for the Disney parks. (The newer ones at least.) Especially the Shaman animatronic from the Na’vi River Journey ride, which alone cost Disney a cool 23 MILLION dollars. And the results speak for themselves. When I first saw clips of it online I genuinely thought it was a real person until I took a much closer look. The average circus or theme park with animal shows like seaworld isn’t going to have the level of capital to be able to produce something with results even half as lifelike as the real thing. It’s an issue with a ton of nuance and very few, if any, good answers unfortunately:(
Also, in the case of animatronics that are meant to replace aquatic animals, I imagine the maintenance costs alone would rack up QUICK from being in a moist environment so much 😭
@@Hydrang3aH4mm3rl0ckI love the internet because somebody can wonder something random and we can get a response from somebody who knows way too much about the subject, who reveals that this is already a well-tread and nuanced idea
35:16 To make the story even crazier on this one, I'm pretty sure the conspiracy is that the person who ordered the arson attack was Abe Saffron who was basically like Australia's Al Capone. What's even crazier is the connection I found this out through is the guy's son started a restaurant which was then featured on the US Kitchen Nightmares.
23:44 I went to Mt. Olympus with my extended family one year for thanksgiving and my ~8 year old cousin broke his arm on the teacup ride. It was missing a guard between the top part that you grab to spin it (doesn't move) and the ride that actually spins and his long sleeve shirt got caught and his arm wrapped around the center pole. It was a while ago but from what I remember the ride operator refused to stop the ride early. He ended up being fine, but just imagine being an 8 year old kid with a broken arm in the waterpark capital of the world. He was really upset they wouldn't let him go on rides or play in the large structures, he just got to stand in the baby pool
You said “Apollo's Chariot Fabio incident”, and immediately, the set-up clicked. Only the goose was a surprise. What a world we live in where that phrase makes sense to at least one singular person.
@naomii_star Sadly no 😆, I just did the background music at the start of the video. I belive LEMMiNO did the music for the rest of the video tho, which is pretty dope 👌
As someone from Kansas City, Missouri, I am so glad you mentioned that the Schlitterbahn was a Kansas attraction. People often assume that Kansas City is only in Kansas.
@@ANightattheOpera28 I remember the horrible stories from Worlds of Fun. The Orient Express (no longer there thank goodness), The Timberwolf. (been too long to rememberr whether it's still there lol)
@@hollywalker3726 I actually haven't heard the Orient Express stories! I was way too little to ride it when it got taken down, but my older relatives all remember it fondly. I rode Timberwolf once though and that was MORE than enough. I've never been shaken so hard, even by rides that shake you intentionally, and that was before I developed bad motion sickness!
@@ANightattheOpera28 I cannot find any confirmed deaths on the ride, but metal fatigue caused a derailment that left passengers stranded in July 1999. It closed down in 2003. While I did not ever ride the Orient Express, I did ride its successor, Spinning Dragons. I get the motion sickness thing. When we were done, my friend asked if I was having a heart attack, I just said "I'm just waiting for the world to stop spinning." It is a slower moving roller coaster that allows the cars to spin at specific points. The cars are single with four seats, which allow it to.
@hollywalker3726 Ahh, that makes sense. I'd definitely be scared as hell if a ride I was on got stuck. Spinning Dragons was actually the first non-kiddie coaster I rode, back when I was eleven-ish. I don't know how I didn't get sick; just thinking of it now makes me a little dizzy. I've heard about Steelhawk breaking down and not being able to open in recent years, but most of the issues I hear about from there come from dumb stuff the patrons have done.
Yeah this video was very interesting but it didn’t feel like an Iceberg chart, it felt more like a chunk of a list that was ripped off from a Wikipedia entry
Shut up. He explained multiple times that he tries his best and can't have the greatest upload schedule, especially when looking for information for 30-120 minutes long
I've actually been somewhat close to some of these incidents. Like, I visited Cedar Point in Sandusky Ohio in the summer of 2015. The very next day, the park was closed after a special ed teacher was killed when he got hit by a roller coaster after he hopped the fence to retrieve a dropped phone. Also I went to Action Park (or as we called it, "Class Action Park") when I was a kid but they'd closed a lot of the worst attractions by then. This is part of the fun of roller coasters, if you ask me-- amusement parks are almost completely safe (except when I'm playing Roller Coaster Tycoon, lol) but they allow you to feel a bit of genuine danger.
It was raptor, the guy dropped his phone asked if the ride attendants could retrieve it and was told no (the ride would be closed for a minimum of 30 minutes, it takes a lot of clearance to be able to go in a danger zone during the active day) The guy of course didn't like the fact that he would have to wait untill the end of the day to have his phone returned so he jumped 2 separate fences with numerous large warning signs during regular operation. During this time, he failed to use spacial awareness (ride do be loud), and (i can't stress this enough) COMMON SENSE.... he got decapitated. A similar incident happened this past year at Kings Island's Banshee except involving lost car keys. My credentials for all this is the fact that i was a raptor ride attendant (ama). The moral of the story, have pockets that zip, button, or velcro or put your stuff in a locker or free bin in the station, and most importantly, don't go where you're not meant be. Thank you.
@@dakotaatwood4790 why does Cedar Point employ so many foreign workers? It's in Ohio, and all of the employees are from Poland, Turkey, Equator, or somewhere like that. Sandusky isn't a border town and even if it was, none of the Cedar Point employees are Canadian or Mexican. So like, what's the deal? Are they international students from local colleges? Are they here specifically on a visa, like Cedar Point always hunts for potential employees in Poland and Turkey or something? Is Cedar Point taking advantage of cheap labor from illegal immigrants? I've always wondered why the employees were always about 16-25, and foreigners...
@michaele1654 In the grand scheme of things Sandusky isnt that big of a town and in turn has a smaller labor force, so to help staff this park that takes 10s of thousands of workers they offer a work visa program that mainly draws from Europian countries, they are paid the same as all other workers of same position. Additionally they offer housing to these individuals for very cheap (If you look to the left of the intersection before the causeway you'll see it, it kinda looks like a prison) A big reason they look younger is because they have a stipend for college student for travel expenses, Additionally cedar point and amusement parks in general are very tiring and hard to maintain for people of older age departments on position (this is why you'll see the older people at parking booths or ticketing and not running around checking restraints). Foreign workers helped operate the park for decades and the park wouldn't be able to operate without them (at least not to the extent that it does). With this being said cedar point finds other ways to cut costs when it comes to employees, for example due to the seasoned operations of the park most employees are considered seasonal employees (wild I know) they do this instead of just saying they are full time due to a loophole in Ohio law that dictates that employers don't have to pay seasonal employees overtime (employees tend work 60+ hours a week so this is saving cedar point millions on labor costs) with this being said many people pay outrageous costs to do some of the things we do (Mainly ride operators) such as walk up the lift hill or send a train from the control booth (cedar point offers a 'sunrise tour' in which people pay i believe 150 USD (on top of tickets) to go up the lift of Valravn before the park opens). With all this being said working at an amusement parks has its ups and downs (similar to a roller coaster) and you should always just follow instructions and respect the employees cause you never know who's in their 4th 16 hour shift in a row (yes this commonly happens) or missing their family that they haven't seen in 5 months. Hope this clears things up a bit. Anymore questions I'll answer because I enjoy yapping about roller coasters
an infamous accident that happened at Six Flags over Georgia where a kid lost his hat after riding the Batman ride. he decided to climb the fence to get his hat only to end up getting decapitated by the ride.
That’s a myth actually. He was trying to cut the line. You’re thinking of the incident at Paramount’s Great America in 1998. Similar accidents have happened at Cedar Point and Kings Island.
@@bumblebee4me4ever I’ve read his comment over and over and I can’t seem to find where he mentioned a janitor. Can you point that out to me please? Because all I see is mention of the widely-televised and widely-misunderstood 2008 incident.
@@triple7marc I mentioned the janitor / park employee, not him. It happened in 2002, 6 years before the 2008 incident. There's news articles you can find about it.
Another theory about the Tillikum incident is that they were not aggressive, but excited. Orcas are smart enough to realize that Kelty was a trainer despite never meeting before, and they might have thought it was play time with a new friend. Pulling her underwater was likely a game to them.
they are sadistic animals that enjoy playing with their prey. also knowing how bad the conditions were you can kinda guess that it was just a thing a wild animal did out of rage, hunger and instincts
the smiler is actually a really good ride, it still runs to this day and i highly recommend it. it holds the world record for the most inversions (14!), can't remember if this was mentioned in the video
another excellent iceburg video! i love your 'wont waste your time' attitude about them, and i love the lemmino tunes! for anyone interested in further, extremely detailed explanations for most of these incidents, Coaster College has covered almost every one of these.
22:50 the extra cart was actually a test cart because of reported issues that day. nobody was on the extra cart that got stuck, but they hadn't set the system to look for six carts instead of five. so when they were about to send a cart with people on it, they checked where all the carts were and the system reported all the carts were off the track. so they sent the next one with people on. EDIT: they were also left suspended up there for FOUR HOURS before they were cut out of the cart and could be treated
My aunt and uncle were at Disney with my baby cousin during the alligator incident in 2016. Hearing about it after they came back was WILD. My cousin was about the son’s age, maybe a little younger. When we went to Disney about two years later, my family forbade me and my sister from swimming in even the allowed ocean areas in the park. It was wild.
As a Taiwanese ,seeing Formosa Fun Coast Fire at the bottom of the iceberg is really bone-chilling. Every Taiwanese people remember that horrible incident and after that, many nearby countries cancelled their color party events. The fun coast is still abandoned till this day…
23:45 -- You've got the year wrong on that one, it was 2014, not 2024. I can't find information on any lawsuits but the ride was closed and ultimately removed after the accident.
When I used to work at a Cedar Point park, one of the methods they used to train us (we were mostly in high school lool) was showing us the Ride Of Steel veteran incident as an example to never let a person with no prosthetics/no legs onto the roller coasters.
@@ThirdBalaur Love Internal Rot - it's nice to see another grind fan out here randomly. The cover of Grieving Birth is a screenshot from a series called Red Riding: The Year Of Our Lord 1974.
The lowkey best part about Parallel Pipes icebergs is that they're based on some of the most unexpected and wackiest topics you didn't realize you wanted to know about.
Great stuff, my favorite iceberg videos are all from you! Also not sure how to word this more elegantly so I'll just say it like this: your looks, and honesty even your voice, are really attractive...
27:09 This incident, upon further deep dive, was tooootally veteran bro's fault. James was repeatedly confirmed to demand he ride even after being told by the park that it was not a disabled safe ride. Many ride operators testified that they were torn between rules and this guy's constant cries that they were discriminating against him. I know you were fast tracking ride incidents, but I thought it would be worth it to defend the park ride from Karens who think just cuz their legs were blown off in combat mean they are somehow protected by physics in a ride they shouldn't be on.
I love the fact that you're filming under your bed, it's so relatable. Like you go to your friend's place to do homework but he starts to yap about amusement park death
Action park sounded so familiar and i didn't know why until you mentioned go karts and I've totally been there! i was so scared so I was slow the entire time and there were a lot of signs warning you to slow down in specific areas. the go kart was fun and there was also this giant inflatable thing you could jump like 50 feet from. was also too scared to do that lol. I think this was around covid time.
The man, the myth, the legend has returned! One of the iceberg GOATS! Who knows what topic he'll discuss next... he literally covers just about any random topic :)
My dad worked at Action Park back in the day when he was a teenager! The owner, Gene, didn’t care about safety at all! Even for the employees! My dad worked at every park there but also worked on the cannon ball loop slide. The managers would come every morning and ask if it had been tested and my dad would tell them “yeah Casper did it” because he said there was no way he was going down that thing
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correction on the ride of steel at 27:32, the veteran with no legs who got on the ride. the staff was extremely unwilling to allow him on, but after the him and his family became very upset that he couldnt go on, mangement allowed him to. and as some who regularly goes on the ride of steel, you most definitely need your legs to stay in that ride
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Dude! You totally missed the part where guests at action park would light the tennis balls on FIRE on the battle tanks.
@@wolfe6819 iirc it's told in the documentary and the autobiography by the action park founder's son! I recommend both, especially the book.
Sounds like a great time
I would not be surprised one bit at that. Watching that happen must have been awesome back then. 😂
Tilikum's story is one that make me so so sad. Orcas live in a matriarcle society where female orcas are the 'dominant' gender, while in captivity at sealand Tilikum was frequently bitten and injured by the two female orcas enclosed with him, to the point where the handlers put him into a separate sleep area at night which was way too small for any orca but especially for one as big as Tilikum. This orca was abused his entire captive life and was then pitted as a monster in media for actions that stemmed from that abuse. I mourn the lives lost because of Tilikum, no one deserves to die in such a horrific way, but he should've been more of a lesson to captors that these beautiful animals should only be in the wild, not in concrete walls.
yes! i remember watching the documentary called ‘blackfish’ on netflix about seaworld and the nature of the deaths that had happened. one of the really trained divers, ken peters, was doing a show with tilikum and the orca was suspected to be attempting to drown him-many people say that this isn’t the case and the orca was simply “toying” with peters. but in my personal opinion, i don’t believe ken would have survived and eventually got away if it wasn’t because of his diving experience. tilikum had him under the water for MINUTES at a time, bringing him up for air, and then back down again. not entirely sure if peters was majorly injured, but the experience is still so traumatic for both the orca and the human.
20:05 small correction, this is a common mistake but he wasn’t exactly decapitated. From what I understand his spine was severed, which basically meant he was internally decapitated, but his head didn’t actually fall off like many dramatizations would have you believe.
Ohhh!
I keep trying to find a definitive source on this!! I have no idea why it's not known. The only reason why I'm interested is because I saw the news report on TV when I was younger, and there were two tarps at the bottom of the slide. I feel like that fact would make the ensuing (or arguably lack of) legal proceedings a bit more important??? Like??? It's one thing to have an internal decapitation, and another to literally have the kid's head come off.
I thought they said his head came off and injured the people behind him?
@@MeeYeeWeeWee Nope. That's completely false and just comes from early news sources who didnt have all the information or from dramatizations who misinterpreted the information given. And some AI slop channels have only furthered the misunderstanding.
I sort of had wondered if his head still was attached to his body.
I feel especially bad for tyre as the poor boy KNEW his safety restraints weren’t fitting around him properly, he was signalling to staff and even telling people he didn’t feel safe while the ride was still stationary, tyre before the ride got sent up turned to his friend and went “please tell my mum I love her.” He knew that he wasn’t safe and letting him get off would have only taken seconds. Staff ignored signals from the ride itself telling them a restraint on the ride wasn’t shit properly and just over rid it because “tyre was a bigger boy” and what upsets me most is that most people when talking about his death will add in the footage that was filmed of it. If they black the screen out they still make sure you can hear him impacting the ground, it’s disgusting so thank you for being one of the first I’ve seen not use the footage and use just a regular footage of the ride.
I don't feel as bad because the full story from people who were there at the time is the ride operators were not allowing him on the ride because he was too big for the restraints and so he and a chaperone for the group there started loudly accusing them of racism until they gave in.
@@ironwolf56 Dunno about that, very cliché
@@ironwolf56hmm….
@@ironwolf56source?
@@beegsquare4123from his head
The staff DID try to stop the disabled veteran from getting on the man of steel. He started threatening them so they let him on.
Well that makes sense
Its a wonder someone without legs wanted to get on a ride you need legs for
@@ssj5shadowgohanx2I'm from Western New York where Darian is located, and the general consensus among most people out this way was it was a suicide. He wanted to die on the ride so his family could collect insurance money from the lawsuit.
As soon as I heard the "teeth in the side of the slide" story I knew this video was POORLY researched. I'm not even gonna finish it...
That’s not an excuse for letting him get on the ride.
First Sam O'Nella two days ago, and now Parallel Pipes? We are eating well this holiday season
Sam o'nella is back?!?
@Luh_katkat Yes!! He returned 2 years ago, and he's released 4 other videos since then, the latest two days ago. They're still good.
@@cinna3503lets hope he keeps on with the books.
sam who?
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Anytime Schlitterbahn is brought up I need to weigh in my experience. I visited Schlitterbahn a week before the incident and our family of 4 (Not 3 passengers? Unless I remember wrong) rode the slide despite not meeting the correct weight requirements. It's a big scale that weighs everyone at the same time. The two employees let us through without very much hesitation. After finding out about the tragedy that week after, I definitely reflected on the "what if scenarios". Rides can be so dangerous. You have employees who see the same thing every day and don't think too much about it, coupled with being inspected inadequately for those serious margins of error that cannot be overlooked by ride operators. I don't avoid rides altogether, but it certainly makes you think twice.
Thank you, Khazix from league of legends
@@低端辛吉德 No problem, Singed. Still not ganking top though, GL play safe.
My boyfriend’s family knew Caleb’s family, they almost bought their old house. The kids baseball stuff was still all set up. It was really sad.
I was there a month before the incident and wanted to go on the ride so bad but my mom wouldn’t let me. Thank god. I was a 10 year old who weighed no more than 90 pounds (i was a tiny kid).
besides that they had the best lazy river, i kinda miss it
39:54 minor correction. Four people (all adults) were killed in this accident and 2 children were uninjured. The details honestly remain the worst Ive ever heard
I too deep dived into that horrific accident and the like 300 page inquest and alll the manuals for the ride etc. the injuries were so so severe. Like none of them drowned, they all died from being crushed into the conveyor belt mechanism either severing spinal cords or equivalent god I hope they didn’t suffer longer than a few seconds
@@abbydoss4967 Its still counted by many as one of our most tragic themepark accidents in Australia, the first usually being the ghost train fire of 1979 at Luna Park Sydney, as is mentioned in the video.
I remember reading that some of the first responders who worked on that accident developed PTSD due to the severity of what they found. If even first responders who spend all day dealing with dead and seriously injured people were that traumatised, it must've been awful.
As a roller coaster enthusiast I would like to stress the fact that modern amusement parks and roller coasters are some of the safest thrills statistically. You are far more likely to be killed in a car crash on the way to the amusement park, or by the food at the amusement park than riding on a roller coaster.
For people scared of things like airplanes and roller coasters, this kind of statistic doesn't have any meaning. Your chances of getting food poisoning at an average restaurant are low but there are sketchy restaurants where your chances are very high. The risk is not evenly distributed.
I'd rather not ride on something that moves the human body in a way it didn't evolve to withstand just for some adrenaline rush lmao.
@@AnAverageGoblin you're gonna flip when you discover airplanes
@@coolboyyo654 if humans were meant to be in the sky we would be there by now.
@@coolboyyo654I'll risk an airplane flight in order to GO somewhere - don't feel like risking a roller coaster purely for the (unpleasant) experience
6:32 fun fact: even at more real racing centered karting tracks, 50 mph can still be considered quite fast especially for beginners, so in an amusement park where no professionals are likely present, it’s very, VERY dangerous
Actual pro kart racers with high performance machines might top out at 70 mph so yeah 50 mph for guests at an amusement park is irresponsible lol.
that story about the orca made me start thinking: why has nobody ever attempted to make one of these shows with animatronics? you could apply this to the circus too
you cut out all the animal cruelty, all the danger of having such massive live animals on site, and all the time that would be needed to train the animal, in exchange for something that *can't* disobey (because it's a machine) and won't have the risk of dying to some disease or killing somebody
I remember a while back there was a circus (circ du soleil I think) that did feature animatronic animals. The commercials looked so cool and the animals were steampunk themed.
Apart from maybe having to rework the shows, I think it's also because people want to see a LIVE animal. I mean the show becomes a little less impressive when you know it's a robot and not an animal trained for it. It's like a daredevil.
That said, I definitely agree that there should be an alternative instead of more animal cruelty
Realistically, beyond the fact that watching what is effectively a several-ton piece of metal wearing the face of an animal do a trick just isn’t nearly as impressive as seeing the real thing (and trust me, I’m not advocating for live animals to be used instead. So many circuses and other places that employ animals-particularly large or critically endangered ones- as part of their acts are incomprehensibly cruel), creating animatronics that not only LOOK lifelike but can MOVE in a convincing and lifelike manner is a task that requires a frankly absurd amount of time, money, and engineering. If it’s a topic that interests you, I would look into the animatronics for the Disney parks. (The newer ones at least.) Especially the Shaman animatronic from the Na’vi River Journey ride, which alone cost Disney a cool 23 MILLION dollars. And the results speak for themselves. When I first saw clips of it online I genuinely thought it was a real person until I took a much closer look. The average circus or theme park with animal shows like seaworld isn’t going to have the level of capital to be able to produce something with results even half as lifelike as the real thing. It’s an issue with a ton of nuance and very few, if any, good answers unfortunately:(
Also, in the case of animatronics that are meant to replace aquatic animals, I imagine the maintenance costs alone would rack up QUICK from being in a moist environment so much 😭
@@Hydrang3aH4mm3rl0ckI love the internet because somebody can wonder something random and we can get a response from somebody who knows way too much about the subject, who reveals that this is already a well-tread and nuanced idea
40:51 there is actually a memorial! it’s a set of 4 park benches dedicated to each victim near the wildlife area. it’s a really nice spot :)
Disembodied teeth is a new phrase for me 💀💀
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someone had to say it
i was looking for a comment addressing his beauty
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You never fail to catch me off guard every time I open youtube
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35:16 To make the story even crazier on this one, I'm pretty sure the conspiracy is that the person who ordered the arson attack was Abe Saffron who was basically like Australia's Al Capone. What's even crazier is the connection I found this out through is the guy's son started a restaurant which was then featured on the US Kitchen Nightmares.
And the owner was following in his Crime Boss Dad's footsteps by stealing his son's money and using emotional blackmail to keep the son from leaving.
Omg yeah I watched the documentary and im convinced that this was a ploy by Abe Saffron and those connected to him to obtain Luna Park!
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Who up paralleling they pipe to this?
Outchere straight pipin'
Laying pipe parallely
Me af
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This is peak RUclips, your ability to present some of the most horrific information without breaking is amazing, keep on going
LETS GO THE GUY LOOKS WAY YOUNGER THAN HIS VOICE IS BACK
I love watching these videos come out with no warning months at a time on the most random topics
23:44 I went to Mt. Olympus with my extended family one year for thanksgiving and my ~8 year old cousin broke his arm on the teacup ride. It was missing a guard between the top part that you grab to spin it (doesn't move) and the ride that actually spins and his long sleeve shirt got caught and his arm wrapped around the center pole. It was a while ago but from what I remember the ride operator refused to stop the ride early.
He ended up being fine, but just imagine being an 8 year old kid with a broken arm in the waterpark capital of the world. He was really upset they wouldn't let him go on rides or play in the large structures, he just got to stand in the baby pool
Bro remembered his password
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You said “Apollo's Chariot Fabio incident”, and immediately, the set-up clicked. Only the goose was a surprise. What a world we live in where that phrase makes sense to at least one singular person.
Feel honoured to be featured for the doing the background music, love the video man!
did you make this 11:14 music? i remember the internet investigator using it its so iconic to me
@naomii_star Sadly no 😆, I just did the background music at the start of the video.
I belive LEMMiNO did the music for the rest of the video tho, which is pretty dope 👌
I knew he’d come back. Just had to wait for him to get a sponsor 😂. Great video man.
As someone from Kansas City, Missouri, I am so glad you mentioned that the Schlitterbahn was a Kansas attraction. People often assume that Kansas City is only in Kansas.
As someone from the Kansas side, agreed. That ride was there because of Kansas's relatively lax regulations on amusement parks.
@@ANightattheOpera28 I remember the horrible stories from Worlds of Fun. The Orient Express (no longer there thank goodness), The Timberwolf. (been too long to rememberr whether it's still there lol)
@@hollywalker3726 I actually haven't heard the Orient Express stories! I was way too little to ride it when it got taken down, but my older relatives all remember it fondly. I rode Timberwolf once though and that was MORE than enough. I've never been shaken so hard, even by rides that shake you intentionally, and that was before I developed bad motion sickness!
@@ANightattheOpera28 I cannot find any confirmed deaths on the ride, but metal fatigue caused a derailment that left passengers stranded in July 1999. It closed down in 2003. While I did not ever ride the Orient Express, I did ride its successor, Spinning Dragons. I get the motion sickness thing. When we were done, my friend asked if I was having a heart attack, I just said "I'm just waiting for the world to stop spinning." It is a slower moving roller coaster that allows the cars to spin at specific points. The cars are single with four seats, which allow it to.
@hollywalker3726 Ahh, that makes sense. I'd definitely be scared as hell if a ride I was on got stuck. Spinning Dragons was actually the first non-kiddie coaster I rode, back when I was eleven-ish. I don't know how I didn't get sick; just thinking of it now makes me a little dizzy. I've heard about Steelhawk breaking down and not being able to open in recent years, but most of the issues I hear about from there come from dumb stuff the patrons have done.
This isn't an iceberg, just a list. Difference is that in an iceberg, the well known things come first and the most obscure things last.
Yeah this video was very interesting but it didn’t feel like an Iceberg chart, it felt more like a chunk of a list that was ripped off from a Wikipedia entry
I just realized that.
i would say to the average new viewer it is because ive heard of the top layers but never heard of some of the stuff deeper down
@@ienjoywatchingyousleep9431 LOL!🎯
Throughout the video, you can see where the entries were on the iceberg, and it was pretty random.
stop disappearing
Shut up. He explained multiple times that he tries his best and can't have the greatest upload schedule, especially when looking for information for 30-120 minutes long
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I've actually been somewhat close to some of these incidents. Like, I visited Cedar Point in Sandusky Ohio in the summer of 2015. The very next day, the park was closed after a special ed teacher was killed when he got hit by a roller coaster after he hopped the fence to retrieve a dropped phone. Also I went to Action Park (or as we called it, "Class Action Park") when I was a kid but they'd closed a lot of the worst attractions by then. This is part of the fun of roller coasters, if you ask me-- amusement parks are almost completely safe (except when I'm playing Roller Coaster Tycoon, lol) but they allow you to feel a bit of genuine danger.
I think that happened in like 2010
It was raptor, the guy dropped his phone asked if the ride attendants could retrieve it and was told no (the ride would be closed for a minimum of 30 minutes, it takes a lot of clearance to be able to go in a danger zone during the active day) The guy of course didn't like the fact that he would have to wait untill the end of the day to have his phone returned so he jumped 2 separate fences with numerous large warning signs during regular operation. During this time, he failed to use spacial awareness (ride do be loud), and (i can't stress this enough) COMMON SENSE.... he got decapitated. A similar incident happened this past year at Kings Island's Banshee except involving lost car keys. My credentials for all this is the fact that i was a raptor ride attendant (ama). The moral of the story, have pockets that zip, button, or velcro or put your stuff in a locker or free bin in the station, and most importantly, don't go where you're not meant be. Thank you.
@@dakotaatwood4790 why does Cedar Point employ so many foreign workers? It's in Ohio, and all of the employees are from Poland, Turkey, Equator, or somewhere like that. Sandusky isn't a border town and even if it was, none of the Cedar Point employees are Canadian or Mexican. So like, what's the deal? Are they international students from local colleges? Are they here specifically on a visa, like Cedar Point always hunts for potential employees in Poland and Turkey or something? Is Cedar Point taking advantage of cheap labor from illegal immigrants? I've always wondered why the employees were always about 16-25, and foreigners...
@michaele1654 In the grand scheme of things Sandusky isnt that big of a town and in turn has a smaller labor force, so to help staff this park that takes 10s of thousands of workers they offer a work visa program that mainly draws from Europian countries, they are paid the same as all other workers of same position. Additionally they offer housing to these individuals for very cheap (If you look to the left of the intersection before the causeway you'll see it, it kinda looks like a prison) A big reason they look younger is because they have a stipend for college student for travel expenses, Additionally cedar point and amusement parks in general are very tiring and hard to maintain for people of older age departments on position (this is why you'll see the older people at parking booths or ticketing and not running around checking restraints). Foreign workers helped operate the park for decades and the park wouldn't be able to operate without them (at least not to the extent that it does). With this being said cedar point finds other ways to cut costs when it comes to employees, for example due to the seasoned operations of the park most employees are considered seasonal employees (wild I know) they do this instead of just saying they are full time due to a loophole in Ohio law that dictates that employers don't have to pay seasonal employees overtime (employees tend work 60+ hours a week so this is saving cedar point millions on labor costs) with this being said many people pay outrageous costs to do some of the things we do (Mainly ride operators) such as walk up the lift hill or send a train from the control booth (cedar point offers a 'sunrise tour' in which people pay i believe 150 USD (on top of tickets) to go up the lift of Valravn before the park opens). With all this being said working at an amusement parks has its ups and downs (similar to a roller coaster) and you should always just follow instructions and respect the employees cause you never know who's in their 4th 16 hour shift in a row (yes this commonly happens) or missing their family that they haven't seen in 5 months. Hope this clears things up a bit. Anymore questions I'll answer because I enjoy yapping about roller coasters
@@michaele1654 they get paid decently for a place like cedar point
Its literally midnight, will i regret watching this in the pitch black alone? Im just glad bro uploaded
Lets fucking go, this is the best Christmas present I got
As if my day couldn’t get any worse, now I have to sit through 45 minutes of THIS.
We need you back too bro 😭🙏
@@cuberfan08 don’t worry buddy I’ll be back
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an infamous accident that happened at Six Flags over Georgia where a kid lost his hat after riding the Batman ride. he decided to climb the fence to get his hat only to end up getting decapitated by the ride.
That’s a myth actually. He was trying to cut the line. You’re thinking of the incident at Paramount’s Great America in 1998. Similar accidents have happened at Cedar Point and Kings Island.
@@triple7marc there multiple news article on it and IIRC a CNN segment on it. Google Batman ride incident it comes up.
@@triple7marc Nope, demir is correct. The SFOG Batman ride also decapitated a janitor some years before.
@@bumblebee4me4ever I’ve read his comment over and over and I can’t seem to find where he mentioned a janitor. Can you point that out to me please? Because all I see is mention of the widely-televised and widely-misunderstood 2008 incident.
@@triple7marc I mentioned the janitor / park employee, not him. It happened in 2002, 6 years before the 2008 incident. There's news articles you can find about it.
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No he looks so beautiful with the hair like that. Like, every time he shows up onscreen I have to pause the video and think "???"
I am bisexual and approve.
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i crawl out of my cave every time parallel pipes uploads
Video begins at 1:31
Thanks, man!
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Turns out the iceberg guy was Anakin Skywalker this whole time.
Order 66 be hitting this time of year
Good to see you again bro!
26:28 this so unserious silly ass drawing has me dead😭😭💀
the sound effects do NOT help😭😭😭
Another theory about the Tillikum incident is that they were not aggressive, but excited. Orcas are smart enough to realize that Kelty was a trainer despite never meeting before, and they might have thought it was play time with a new friend. Pulling her underwater was likely a game to them.
they are sadistic animals that enjoy playing with their prey. also knowing how bad the conditions were you can kinda guess that it was just a thing a wild animal did out of rage, hunger and instincts
the smiler is actually a really good ride, it still runs to this day and i highly recommend it. it holds the world record for the most inversions (14!), can't remember if this was mentioned in the video
it was.not
another excellent iceburg video! i love your 'wont waste your time' attitude about them, and i love the lemmino tunes! for anyone interested in further, extremely detailed explanations for most of these incidents, Coaster College has covered almost every one of these.
I can't believe I lived to see you upload again 😂
clicked for the iceberg. stayed for the handsome man.
22:50 the extra cart was actually a test cart because of reported issues that day. nobody was on the extra cart that got stuck, but they hadn't set the system to look for six carts instead of five. so when they were about to send a cart with people on it, they checked where all the carts were and the system reported all the carts were off the track. so they sent the next one with people on.
EDIT: they were also left suspended up there for FOUR HOURS before they were cut out of the cart and could be treated
The smiler crash freaks me for many reasons but 4 hours is definitely one of the ones high up there.
Always enjoy your iceberg explanation videos, great work as always!
Okay but why was Fabio getting a nosebleed from a goose/camera the most tamed thing on the list?
Because it was an incident completely unrelated to the ride itself and barely caused an injury
Worth the wait ♥️ happy new year parallel pipes!!
My aunt and uncle were at Disney with my baby cousin during the alligator incident in 2016. Hearing about it after they came back was WILD. My cousin was about the son’s age, maybe a little younger. When we went to Disney about two years later, my family forbade me and my sister from swimming in even the allowed ocean areas in the park. It was wild.
Thank you for uploading! ❤ You’re a treasure!
How would they sue the aquarium when he literally snuck into the tank after hours? 😭
As a Taiwanese ,seeing Formosa Fun Coast Fire at the bottom of the iceberg is really bone-chilling. Every Taiwanese people remember that horrible incident and after that, many nearby countries cancelled their color party events. The fun coast is still abandoned till this day…
23:45 -- You've got the year wrong on that one, it was 2014, not 2024. I can't find information on any lawsuits but the ride was closed and ultimately removed after the accident.
How did I miss this until now?! I love coverage of these topics
his face is so visually pleasing
beautiful man
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Ive been waiting on this! I love your videos ❤please post more
i couldn’t see the whole video because i was BLINDED by his LETHAL face card
FINALLY A NEW VIDEOO 🔥🔥🔥
Love your videos man
When I used to work at a Cedar Point park, one of the methods they used to train us (we were mostly in high school lool) was showing us the Ride Of Steel veteran incident as an example to never let a person with no prosthetics/no legs onto the roller coasters.
i was so excited when i saw you uploaded again. Thank you.
missed u, glad to see u back!
amazing username
Apollos chariot is one of my favorite roller coasters! It’s open to this day and I highly recommend it!
Another Parallel Pipes upload! It's a (late -) Christmas miracle!
seeing an internal rot pfp is suprising ngl
@@ThirdBalaur Love Internal Rot - it's nice to see another grind fan out here randomly. The cover of Grieving Birth is a screenshot from a series called Red Riding: The Year Of Our Lord 1974.
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The lowkey best part about Parallel Pipes icebergs is that they're based on some of the most unexpected and wackiest topics you didn't realize you wanted to know about.
i usually hate iceberg videos but u only give the relevant information and keep it entertaining and quick :) ❤❤ love it new sub
I initially read that as 'Amusing Park Incidents' and figured this vid was gonna be much more heartless.
I love when this channel uploads
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Great stuff, my favorite iceberg videos are all from you! Also not sure how to word this more elegantly so I'll just say it like this: your looks, and honesty even your voice, are really attractive...
I was on the front row of The Smiler about two weeks before the accident 😬
glad youre okay and not one of the nameless victims of this terrible tragedy
I love your videos, man! keep it up
27:09 This incident, upon further deep dive, was tooootally veteran bro's fault. James was repeatedly confirmed to demand he ride even after being told by the park that it was not a disabled safe ride. Many ride operators testified that they were torn between rules and this guy's constant cries that they were discriminating against him. I know you were fast tracking ride incidents, but I thought it would be worth it to defend the park ride from Karens who think just cuz their legs were blown off in combat mean they are somehow protected by physics in a ride they shouldn't be on.
I love the fact that you're filming under your bed, it's so relatable. Like you go to your friend's place to do homework but he starts to yap about amusement park death
“ unfortunately they did not add this to the park “ insane quite from you right there 😂
Why is Parallels voice so calming
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this is even better researched than previous videos, well done
Action park sounded so familiar and i didn't know why until you mentioned go karts and I've totally been there! i was so scared so I was slow the entire time and there were a lot of signs warning you to slow down in specific areas. the go kart was fun and there was also this giant inflatable thing you could jump like 50 feet from. was also too scared to do that lol. I think this was around covid time.
An Iconic Duo: Amusement Park and Lawsuit
The man, the myth, the legend has returned! One of the iceberg GOATS!
Who knows what topic he'll discuss next... he literally covers just about any random topic :)
22:32 "upwards of 50 miles per hour"
23:17 "at like 90 miles per hour"
This math ain't mathing.
hes just a girl let him be
THANK YOU IVE BEEN WAITING 500 EONS
You’re an amazing creator! Make more vids!
Pikman spotted
OMG SO HAPPY YOU POSTED
our iceberg boi has returned
Been watching your videos since 2020 during my online classes
Yes the Roger Rabbit’s ride is still in operation (though it has the Indy effect of being broke every 2.5 hours)
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My dad worked at Action Park back in the day when he was a teenager! The owner, Gene, didn’t care about safety at all! Even for the employees! My dad worked at every park there but also worked on the cannon ball loop slide.
The managers would come every morning and ask if it had been tested and my dad would tell them “yeah Casper did it” because he said there was no way he was going down that thing
They also had a bunch of snails in the cannon ball loop
21:40 What is this song in the background??
the goat returned for his 4th/4 video for the year
YOU JUST MADE MY NIGHT
Bring out the tissue and bring out the lotion we watching parallel pipes💯💯
LEMMiNO really is the GOAT of YT background music up there with Kevin Mc.