"Within an hour it was shut down." Couldn't happen within mins via an employee radioing the operator of the ride? Then investigate it after shutting it down? So crazy. Good on the father for doing the job and protecting others!
@@GizmoMaltese in all honesty though, the security guard has no authority and it would have fallen on deaf ears. There's no way no other staff hasn't seen it previously.
Within an hour can be a few minutes. It's too vague to assume any failure to act yet. Not that I wouldn't beleive them taking their time, people aren't payed enough to care about anything these days. Edit: finished watching the video. The fire department is the one that got it shut down? Sheeesh common people.
He is a hero to me, because he took an extra step by calling the fire department. Many lives would have been lost if he didn't call the fire department.
@@RoIIingStoned. Not sure how you can say that. He saw something that saved lives. Reported it. Then when it wasn’t acted on, he reported it again to someone who did act. Not sure what someone who saved dozens of lives is, if not a hero.
It's a sad day when you have to call the fire department to report an unsafe ride because the park management won't check out what the dad recorded or make a quick safety inspection.
It did, but it also will cost them millions in lost revenue because that ride was probably a huge attraction for them and this news will reduce park visits and revenue during the busiest part of the year...summer time. It's going to take months to properly fix something like that
@@NotMyActualName_ no way lol, they definitely kept a lot of money in their pockets by having that guy force a shut down instead of owing 20 millions (or more) of dollars to the people that would have eventually been hurt or killed on that defective coaster.
@@h445 they have an entire team of low payouts and bullies of the victoms of accidents follwing specific ocmpanies of enteratinmetn and hteir tantacles its pretty sick, and yo ucan always tell how they formed and what from, harvesting moeny and greed, their personalities never change, and hten they justify it by stating they did something good. ANd having people die is better for the bottom line in war and others, since then tehy don't have ot print money to fulfill the asset losses, but can rather harvest it, these grousp contro lthe entire eocnomy ofhte planet in textiles nad more, tis ruthless murdering machine, but maybe I dknow nothing. The repair coudl be done in less then 3 days... of that crack, but having a team of x ray technicians to sweep over hte metal fatigue would be something else...
This dude needs to be called a hero, he just saved people’s life’s, if it wasn’t for him reporting it who knows what could have happened, I’m happy no one got hurt.
no he didnt save lives, the ride couldve ran if the support next to it cracked. The redundancy of the other supports wouldve held the ride up. The only reason that support is there is to reduce stress on the other supports. And also, it is the tallest fastest longest giga coaster in north america, not the tallest and fastest and longest COASTER in america, learn to read fools
The park's failure to act could've easily ended in tragedy. They should be held accountable just as if there had been a bad ending. Extremely irresponsible not to shut the ride down immediately.
You know nothing about rides or amusement parks. There was literally no danger, the support was already totally detached and no “tragedy” occurred because it has multiple supports on that turn to help manage stress load. The rides manufacturer and carowinds both have no major incidents or deaths in their entire history.
@@RayDLX I'd have to agree with you. Sure the park can potentially be held liable. However, that law only applies, if a tragedy does happen then of course they can be held accountable. There is "failsafe" for a reason which is the multiple supports to prevent the stress load. Otherwise, it's against the law.
As long as they didn't know about it, they can only be accused of negligence, but the moment they were informed and didn't react immediately, that must definitely result in a penalty.
@@MrBashemit definitely did, things happen quick especially things like this, and this just goes to show how safe the ride is to have been running like this for who knows how long without a big accident. Bravo to the Carowinds team and the engineers who designed this!
They closed the ride immediately and safety checks don’t require them to check for cracks and stuff, mainly on the trains and brakes. Some places with egotistical owners and managers would keep it open and delete that video, carowinds got a replacement and checked the ride over multiple rides
@@MegaFinalRound The reason for the support beam is to distribute stress load and also raise the factor of safety. Coasters have an extremely high factor of safety meaning that if one support were to break, the ride would still be operable for years. I know it's hard to wrap your brain around how it's safe for a track to move that much, but I promise you that that is completely safe. It's probably even making the ride smoother. The track usually moves a significant amount you just dont notice it.
The break itself is not even the worst part. If the ride is constructed properly, it should definitely be able to run just fine with one of the supports missing. The more worrying part is how it even got to that point. They should have spotted a weakness well before it broke off. Even worse is that they didn't shut the ride down when such an obvious problem was present. Yes, it should work just fine without one support. That doesn't mean you can continue to run it - need to keep the safety margin. That ride, and possibly the entire park, needs a thorough inspection.
That's my thought. Obviously, people engineer redundancy for this exact reason. That doesn't mean you rely on redundancy once you notice a failure. You fix the failure. I imagine the ride operators were just kids and young adults with no common sense. If you notice one support has failed, that automatically stresses the adjacent points. They all need a thorough inspection as well as review of the maintenance and inspection records.
Not the entire park, when the support was made, it was faulty. They shut down the ride until they got some replacement supports and Carowinds is perfectly safe
I am a retired welder and I know of what I speak. This is not a "crack".It is a broken structure that did not happen overnight. An investigation needs to be done into the safety standards and inspection records of the operators of this apparatus.
@@DoubleDogsBFF The break did not happen overnight so i would suspect poor inspection practices. with the G forces against that structure I would expect complete failure at any time
Well you can tell it didnt happen overnight, anyone with even a little sense would know that they use some thick industrialized steel for those rides (theyre supposed to anyway) and that was no crack like he said its a broken/separated support beam and it supposed to withstand alot of weight and movement but if they were doing normal inspections of these rides they would have found that issue way before now or way before it got to be completely separated. So really this is management's failure to have these rides inspected on a normal basis
When a brittle cylinder is twisted it breaks on a 45 degree plane. I think there is metallurgical problem and the coaster bearing on one side then the other is causing a twisting action kinda like a see saw. I think there is a design flaw more than installation. If there is that condition anywhere else on the ride then the whole thing is suspect. All the welds need to be x rated and I would do some corrosion analysis and stress concentration analysis. It could be one bad connection....or it could be a series of flawed designs bolted together.....if so it gets torn down . I hope they truly analyze it and don't try a band aid fix.
I can't help but think the amusement park could have wanted to make a bit more money before shutting down the ride (after learning about the safety issue).
@@GarthVonMaranerThis isn’t some fair where they charge people on each ride they go on. Everyone there either has season or day passes, meaning they already paid. This shows that you probably don’t know much about how most amusement parks operate.
Good job spotting, videoing, reporting, and doing something about it! This wasn't just a crack, it was a break and should have been picked up long ago. A full enquiry about all aspects of this "amusement" park and the autorities' lack of checking and action needs to be conducted and heads should roll!
Never in a million years should it have come down to him calling the Fire dept. As soon as anyone from the park saw that, it should have been an instant shutdown.
2:00 “Carowinds amusement park issued a statement saying “Safety is our top priority…” I’m sure they genuinely think that. Judge people - and companies - by what they do, not by what they say. It doesn’t look good for them.
As a welder and bridge inspector for 35 years. I look for things like this at carnivals as well.. Good on this guy, for alerting people to stop a tragedy from happening.
That's more than a crack, that pole is 100% broken off. The people who ignored his reporting of it should be fired. The ride maintenance workers should be fired, the porters covering that area should be fired and an investigation should be launched on the overwatch and maintenance of this park. This pole was SO OBVIOUS looking at it. I wonder how long it had been like that.
NOBODY IGNORED HIS REPORT!!! It was slow to shutdown because HE DIDN'T TELL THE RIDE OPERATORS!!!! He wasted so much time talking to the completely wrong people. He needed to go straight to the station and tell the crew, and the ride would be shutdown right there and then.
@@CouchPotator A security guard is also an ambassador of the theme park. In a case like this, any park employee, whether it is a security guard, a gartner or a mascot in a furry costume, needs to pay attention to this information provided by a visitor. They need to have brain cells enough to realize the potential implications of this impending structural failure and make sure to forward this information to the relevant recipient within the theme park. It can not be the responsibility of the guest to navigate the organization. It wasn't even the responsibility of the guest to conduct structural inspections to begin with, no matter how glaring they may be. In other words, the security guard in question must be fired to failing to understanding the significance of this information and failing to act.
@@armchair_expert Maybe he should, or maybe the extra bounces of communication needed to get from the guard to security to operations to the station took a long time and the guy only THOUGHT nothing was happening.
@@CouchPotator bro, he could radio them or literally just walk over to the ride to verbally tell them. He's a guard. It's not like he'd have to wait in line for an hour to talk to the ride operators. The maximum amount of time it would take is the length of the walk. There's no reason it would take over an hour to get such important information to them
That's not something anyone would notice unless they're actually looking. I don't blame staff, also it's cedar fair. Cedar Fair will not let a rollercoaster derail. SIX FLAGS on the other hand ONLY MAINTAINS the rides at certain parks though they're all the same ride at every park. But they barely maintain them.
What’s disappointing is the fact that by LAW, they’re supposed to inspect the rollercoaster track every single damn morning before the ride even opens. They need to fire the inspection team or find out if this was a possible terroirst attack.
"Safety is their top priority." Yeah, it only took them ignoring a concerned park guest showing them video evidence of a safety issue and then having to get the fire department involved.
They closed the ride immediately and safety checks don’t require them to check for cracks and stuff, mainly on the trains and brakes. Some places with egotistical owners and managers would keep it open and delete that video, carowinds got a replacement and checked the ride over multiple rides
"Safety is out top priority",. Proceeds to take 1 hour to shut down a ride with a massive structural defect, and emergency services had to be involved before they'd listen.
@@oogabooga6411True but it's not good to risk it, plus people will see it and rate the place a 1 star review and won't return because THEY think it's unsafe.
@@oogabooga6411Doesn’t matter. Having a huge crack like that on one of your coasters at an amusement park, doesn’t make the place look good on their part. One wrong move, and that entire roller coaster cart could’ve went flying off the rails. Better safe then sorry.
I watched another video about this and a structural engineer said that 4 or 5 more rides on that coaster and it would have broken the track itself sending the cars hurling off to the ground and every person would have been decapitated and disemboweled
@@RuLeZ1988 They might have planned to let the insurance company pay for a new Roller Coaster, after a tragedy would have happened. For the management it would have been cheaper to let some people die than to fix it on own cost.
literally nobody would have got hurt or died without that one support the coaster is designed so if something like that does happen nothing bad will happen so stop talking about subjects you know literally nothing about
@ The security guards first action after seeing the video should have been to go over to the 16 year old kid thats is operating the ride (educated guess to the operators age, but lots of kids run rides at theme parks sadly) and demand they shut the ride down immediately. Worry about keeping your job later. Bureaucracy shouldnt be a factor.
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@@barfnugz I agree. Though we don’t really what actions the security guard did take, just that nothing was effective until the fire brigade was called. If the security guard indeed did nothing, then that is certainly bad.
@@barfnugz Nah, it's usually a majority that operates those kinds of rides. And now you have absolutely no clue what I'm talking about, which proves my point EXACTLY.
The great thing about this reference, is in my college OSHA class we literally watched clips from the film series to illustrate how terribly the characters responded to crisis situations. XD
@@dreamcanvas5321Did you guys make like a dissertation/analysis on what they *should've* done? Cause honestly i would be interested in the conclusions a whole class came to watching these idiotic characters
This dude probably just prevented the worst rollercoaster tragedy in U.S. history from happening. How the hell does one of the employees or whoever is supposed to look out for these things for their job not notice a massive crack like that a long time ago. Someone is being lazy or careless and not doing their job properly. It never should have been allowed to get like that in the first place.
When final destination comes to life but it's not at the race track. 😮 That rides coo tho. Yes, I am gp. And no where in this comment did I state that I'm an engineer. Just stating, just to be stating.. 👋. I feel like I need long nails now
Youd be surprised with the stuff that happens at the airport… saw some coworkers almost send a plane out with the luggage doors still open… everyone wouldve died 😭
That's typical that he had to call an OUTSIDE authority to finally get it shut down. It's just ridiculous that it took an hour to get something done. I'd have hit the emergency shutoff switch, consequences be damned.
@@DrBernon you might spot/know, it is at the operators console and at some checkpoints accessable by operators/technicians. Visitors can never reach those areas.
As a dude who works with metal everyday I can tell you this, metal that moves back and forth gets hot, the hotter it gets, the easier it breaks...do the math on how many ride arounds it takes for this heap to end up on the ground?? The fact they needed to be shut down by the father calling the fire dept shows that safety is close to their last priority.
Fun fact! Ride designers account for fatigue, and design the structure to stay within the region of "infinite life" (typically with a substantial factor of safety on top of that)
This guy informed a security guard and nobody shut the ride down until he called the fire department which came out and made them. Let's ponder that for a few moments
Dude, my heart leapt in my chest when I saw that cracked support beam shift. I'm SO relieved someone said something before a real disaster could happen!!!
literally nobody would have got hurt or died without that one support the coaster is designed so if something like that does happen nothing bad will happen so stop talking about subjects you know literally nothing about
@eelovfx9200 Take your own advice! If the strut wasn't needed, it wouldn't be there. Besides, the people who inspected it and *actually* know what they're talking about deemed it unsafe enough to close the ride, so... You're wrong.
“Safety is our top priority “ yet 2 employees did not take it serious like that’s INSANE to even think about as an employee I’d Immediately shut down that ride down
I was at an amusement park one night, and while I was in line waiting for the ride, I saw a huge bolt come flying off the ride I was going to get on. I reported it. Luckily, the staff listened and shut the ride down. Thank God this man was attentive and made them listen by contacting the Fire Dept.
@@kaitlinreichert606 it depends from the manufacturer. Generally 1 bolt should cause the ride to get an inspection but can’t exactly cause it to derail the entire train.
@@Pianissemo Without knowing where 1 bolt came from.. it might be not much.. or it could be something vital. Not worth the gamble of injury / death / lawsuites to take a chance...
@@bethanyoneal5789literally nobody would have got hurt or died without that one support the coaster is designed so if something like that does happen nothing bad will happen so stop talking about subjects you know literally nothing about
@@eelovfx9200 so, you would be okay with your kids riding it knowing the crack is there because it's 'designed' for problems like this. you'd put your faith and trust in the people who designed something that failed assuming it was constructed to their specs, or the construction of people who designed something that broke.
@@newhyperspace43 i'd say with confidence that on the operatrs/security contracts there is written that if they deem to be a risk for the park customers, they have all the right and authority to shut it down. this sounds more like an average management moment "it's always been like that in the last 2 years Billy, the engeneer said its fine, do you know how much money we lose by shutting it down on a day like this?" pretty average.
Although i have more anxiety i can deal with, it is still worth going above and beyond to save peoples lives if the intial people whose responsibility to maintain safety ignores it or doesnt notice. this is a world full of humans who make mistakes everyday no matter what your reputation is in society, and we all need to support eachother like this wonderful man is showing us.
That man probably saved a lot of lives. You can see just from the video it was a disaster in waiting. I would have thought they would have inspection teams checking rides routinely at those types of parks, obviously not.
No he saved no lives cuz it’s has sway and redundancy which means it could have operated like that for a while believe it or not. Just informing the masses about the medias dirty lies
Thank you for your professional opinion. Yeah you're right, I'm sure nothing can happen. In fact, I'm sure they left it unfixed because after all, nothing can happen.
if you know anything about physics and how roller coasters work, then you would know that no one was in danger here. The ride is built with redundancies to keep the ride up and perfectly safe even in event of something like this. That support could be removed and the ride could run
Duuude! I cant even picture the unimaginable tragedy of those people being flung off of that ride. There couldve been bodies everywhere. Kudos to the guy who didnt let it rest.
While there was a lot of negligence from the park, nobody was in super big danger, rollercoasters tend to use more supports than needed to help reduce stress on the supports. However if this wasn’t caught for like a week then it could have potentially been pretty bad
if you know anything about physics and how roller coasters work, then you would know that no one was in danger here. The ride is built with redundancies to keep the ride up and perfectly safe even in event of something like this. That support could be removed and the ride could run.
Keep in mind, this man's DAUGHTER went on the ride eight times that same day. I'm pretty sure he was terrified at the possibility of this ride falling apart should she have gotten on it again. The man says he's not a hero, but in a way he is, because he saved countless other sons and daughters from possible death.
No he saved no lives cuz it’s has sway and redundancy which means it could have operated like that for a while believe it or not. Just informing the masses about the medias dirty lies
I was shocked when I first heard about this recent news about a cracked support beam on a roller coaster, by the looks of the crack it can be clearly seen during the day. I’m just glad that father noticed that huge crack of the support beam of the roller coaster, if it wasn’t for him, it would’ve ended up in a tragic roller coaster accident. That father was quite a hero that day from preventing a horrible accident from happening.
The park didn't shut down the ride even after being notified and with video? The fire department (a gov agency) has to step in to shut down, and it kept going for an hour after it was reported! Insane negligence, goes on to show, how much the park cares about your safety
@@armybeef68 huh? I said park employees didn't shut down part after knowing ride was broken, is unbelievable. And they can't say no to gov so gov agency needed to come to tell them they can't continue, such negligence from park employees is wild. They don't care about people safety because they didn't closed the ride. That's what i was trying to say. I'm not even from USA, i'm not on any side, but i have to take a side, i would rarely take gov side, because gov is pain in the ***, almost everywhere in the world.
@Who-lj8mbstupid Comment you do realize if he didn’t spot that that crack would’ve gotten bigger in the truck would’ve probably fallen and people would’ve gotten killed you clearly don’t know what he was talking about
@Who-lj8mb If that support is broken and moving - now that more is moving - what else is starting to weaken as a result? Potential is probably there to be deadly.. depending on how much may have degraded as well. A full inspection will tell how close it was to catastrophic failure..
I think my first stop would have been the kid operating the ride, show him the video and shut down the ride. Sure, people who've waited in line for 30 minutes might be pissy, but running that ride for another hour as it was is just asking for people to be killed, not just the 32 on the car but dozens on the ground below. If the operator doesn't have the authority to shut it down when seeing a safety issue, then that amusement park is begging to be sued.
He's kind of like Kate Shelley. In 1881, a teenage girl named Kate Shelley stopped a train from leaving a station in Iowa after a bridge near her house collapsed in a storm.
No he saved no lives cuz it’s has sway and redundancy which means it could have operated like that for a while believe it or not. Just informing the masses about the medias dirty lies
Obviously the ride wants to flex there, and it broke because it's not allowed to. It's like any tall building. Take the Sears (Willis) Tower for example. The top floor of Willis Tower can move about 12 feet in any direction on a windy day, and it's designed to, otherwise it would do the same here. It's called a compliant mechanism. If that particular joint was on a spring-loaded axle that would allow it to flex out when the coaster comes around that corner and then returns to center when it's gone, that might be a solution.
@@lickourballs1atatimeok literally nobody would have got hurt or died without that one support the coaster is designed so if something like that does happen nothing bad will happen so stop talking about subjects you know literally nothing about
The company must have been aware of the situation but decided to keep the attraction open. The revenue stream is probably too substantial to warrant closure. They seem to find it more cost-effective to compensate for injuries than to shut it down. Oddly enough, if a fatality were to occur, it could paradoxically benefit them, garnering free publicity as the "most dangerous ride" and potentially attracting more patrons.It's a peculiar world we live in, isn't it?
It’s nice to know they took responsibility and at least shut it down. Usually at a workplace something isn’t fixed til it’s broken no matter how much notice there is even tho you’re trying to prevent big problems
@@nalsra0nah that’s just not true it’s just cause the media got to it and the media loves to make roller coasters seem like the devil because it makes them money
It's because HE DIDN'T TELL THE RIDE OPERATORS!!!! He wasted so much time talking to the completely wrong people. He needed to go straight to the station and tell the crew, and the ride would be shutdown right there and then.
@@CouchPotatorif only the guard had a functioning brain. Then the guard could've gotten that information to them within a few minutes. Or in less than a minute if most employees have long distance walkies
literally nobody would have got hurt or died without that one support the coaster is designed so if something like that does happen nothing bad will happen so stop talking about subjects you know literally nothing about
if you know anything about physics and how roller coasters work, then you would know that no one was in danger here. The ride is built with redundancies to keep the ride up and perfectly safe even in event of something like this. That support could be removed and the ride could run.
yep because going accident free for 10 years doesn't matter because natural wear and tear is something that is totally the parks fault and is there fault for paying attention to and fixing....
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Glad everyone is safe, and good job for spotting it and preventing a tragedy
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@BasedSigmaMaleWithVaildTakes bro. People can get on roller coasters like that at age 12
@BasedSigmaMaleWithVaildTakes bruh what 14 year old hasn’t been on a rollercoaster what 🤣
I’m so glad he not only said something but took action until the ride was closed down. Great job sir!
@@gurditasingh6598you're so cool. tell us more.
This man is very responsible to take ownership of the situation!
@@gurditasingh6598 ur last comment is I’m pregnant…
When I say don’t take no for an answer this is exactly what I mean lol
Crack is wack.
"Within an hour it was shut down."
Couldn't happen within mins via an employee radioing the operator of the ride? Then investigate it after shutting it down? So crazy.
Good on the father for doing the job and protecting others!
These days, being that employee could very well mean losing your job. I bet that was a factor.
@@americanbeauty4015 If you see the video there is no question the ride needs to ber shutdown immediately.
@@GizmoMaltese in all honesty though, the security guard has no authority and it would have fallen on deaf ears. There's no way no other staff hasn't seen it previously.
Within an hour can be a few minutes. It's too vague to assume any failure to act yet.
Not that I wouldn't beleive them taking their time, people aren't payed enough to care about anything these days.
Edit: finished watching the video. The fire department is the one that got it shut down? Sheeesh common people.
The company doesn't care until it's too late. No need to spend money when you can keep raking it in with people none the wiser
He's right, he's not a hero. He's a man with common sense in a world that no longer has any.
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He’s not a hero at all
He is a hero to me, because he took an extra step by calling the fire department. Many lives would have been lost if he didn't call the fire department.
@@hihikatamaricalled him not a hero actually a sarcasm for other people who didnt do their job properly (ride staff etc)
@@RoIIingStoned. Not sure how you can say that. He saw something that saved lives. Reported it. Then when it wasn’t acted on, he reported it again to someone who did act. Not sure what someone who saved dozens of lives is, if not a hero.
It's a sad day when you have to call the fire department to report an unsafe ride because the park management won't check out what the dad recorded or make a quick safety inspection.
Egotistical owners and managers. Greed.
Yea park security was like “yea ok whatever, we know what we’re doing , take a hike”
Why would the maintenance people care, they don’t get paid enough to survive, so things like this become “not my problem” in todays world sadly !
Or call the SWAT on them.
its safe the guy just shut down the ride now no one can ride it
This not only saved lives, but he probably saved the park MILLIONS in lawsuits.
The amusement park should be thanking him.
It did, but it also will cost them millions in lost revenue because that ride was probably a huge attraction for them and this news will reduce park visits and revenue during the busiest part of the year...summer time. It's going to take months to properly fix something like that
Better that than having death counts@@NotMyActualName_
@@NotMyActualName_So you're saying if that dude had kept his mouth shut they could have saved millions? 😂
@@NotMyActualName_ no way lol, they definitely kept a lot of money in their pockets by having that guy force a shut down instead of owing 20 millions (or more) of dollars to the people that would have eventually been hurt or killed on that defective coaster.
@@h445 they have an entire team of low payouts and bullies of the victoms of accidents follwing specific ocmpanies of enteratinmetn and hteir tantacles its pretty sick, and yo ucan always tell how they formed and what from, harvesting moeny and greed, their personalities never change, and hten they justify it by stating they did something good. ANd having people die is better for the bottom line in war and others, since then tehy don't have ot print money to fulfill the asset losses, but can rather harvest it, these grousp contro lthe entire eocnomy ofhte planet in textiles nad more, tis ruthless murdering machine, but maybe I dknow nothing.
The repair coudl be done in less then 3 days... of that crack, but having a team of x ray technicians to sweep over hte metal fatigue would be something else...
This dude needs to be called a hero, he just saved people’s life’s, if it wasn’t for him reporting it who knows what could have happened, I’m happy no one got hurt.
no he didnt save lives, the ride couldve ran if the support next to it cracked. The redundancy of the other supports wouldve held the ride up. The only reason that support is there is to reduce stress on the other supports. And also, it is the tallest fastest longest giga coaster in north america, not the tallest and fastest and longest COASTER in america, learn to read fools
@BasedSigmaMaleWithVaildTakesif the 14yr old cleared the height restriction, he could ride.
@BasedSigmaMaleWithVaildTakes also the 14 year is old enough to know what he/she wants to ride, i definitely wouldn’t put a 8 year old it.
@BasedSigmaMaleWithVaildTakes lol, anyone can go on a roller coaster.
@BasedSigmaMaleWithVaildTakesMF you do NOT know how roller coasters work.
The park's failure to act could've easily ended in tragedy. They should be held accountable just as if there had been a bad ending. Extremely irresponsible not to shut the ride down immediately.
You know nothing about rides or amusement parks. There was literally no danger, the support was already totally detached and no “tragedy” occurred because it has multiple supports on that turn to help manage stress load. The rides manufacturer and carowinds both have no major incidents or deaths in their entire history.
@@RayDLX I'd have to agree with you. Sure the park can potentially be held liable. However, that law only applies, if a tragedy does happen then of course they can be held accountable. There is "failsafe" for a reason which is the multiple supports to prevent the stress load. Otherwise, it's against the law.
@@RayDLXthere shouldn’t be any cracks on any ride none the less you bozo
Dumbasses acting like they knew it existed and didn’t shut it down as soon as they knew
@@RayDLXa man's hand was severed by a ride at Carowinds and he won a lawsuit
As long as they didn't know about it, they can only be accused of negligence, but the moment they were informed and didn't react immediately, that must definitely result in a penalty.
and they didnt act immediately after being told. The man had to call the fire department since they wouldnt do anything at first
Aren't they supposed to inspect the rides? Seems like something that would be hard to miss and probably didn't happen in 1 day.
@@MrBashemit definitely did, things happen quick especially things like this, and this just goes to show how safe the ride is to have been running like this for who knows how long without a big accident. Bravo to the Carowinds team and the engineers who designed this!
They closed the ride immediately and safety checks don’t require them to check for cracks and stuff, mainly on the trains and brakes. Some places with egotistical owners and managers would keep it open and delete that video, carowinds got a replacement and checked the ride over multiple rides
"I'm not an engineer but that's not normal" Jeremy telling straight facts
it's not normal but it's completely safe
@@iamsam9183”completely”? safe? I don’t think so. What is the point of the support beam?
@@MegaFinalRound The reason for the support beam is to distribute stress load and also raise the factor of safety. Coasters have an extremely high factor of safety meaning that if one support were to break, the ride would still be operable for years. I know it's hard to wrap your brain around how it's safe for a track to move that much, but I promise you that that is completely safe. It's probably even making the ride smoother. The track usually moves a significant amount you just dont notice it.
I am engineer, and this is not Minecraft
The tracks shifting is normal, it’s to reduce tension and stiffness; the broken pillar tho isn’t normal
Bless this guy, he saved them from something that could be one of the biggest amusement park disaster in history.
B&M over engineers their rides so tragedy doesn’t happen.
@latinokid33 dude gtfo of here with your random nonsense. This is a story about a roller coaster and you're over here talking about gun laws.
@@latinokid33wat
@@latinokid33The irony of calling us morons when you can’t even spell it right
@@latinokid33 goofy
The break itself is not even the worst part. If the ride is constructed properly, it should definitely be able to run just fine with one of the supports missing. The more worrying part is how it even got to that point. They should have spotted a weakness well before it broke off.
Even worse is that they didn't shut the ride down when such an obvious problem was present. Yes, it should work just fine without one support. That doesn't mean you can continue to run it - need to keep the safety margin.
That ride, and possibly the entire park, needs a thorough inspection.
That's my thought. Obviously, people engineer redundancy for this exact reason. That doesn't mean you rely on redundancy once you notice a failure. You fix the failure.
I imagine the ride operators were just kids and young adults with no common sense.
If you notice one support has failed, that automatically stresses the adjacent points. They all need a thorough inspection as well as review of the maintenance and inspection records.
Not the entire park, when the support was made, it was faulty. They shut down the ride until they got some replacement supports and Carowinds is perfectly safe
I am a retired welder and I know of what I speak. This is not a "crack".It is a broken structure that did not happen overnight. An investigation needs to be done into the safety standards and inspection records of the operators of this apparatus.
Why do you think it was overlooked or neglected as long as it was? Would the whole support eventually have given way?
@@DoubleDogsBFF The break did not happen overnight so i would suspect poor inspection practices. with the G forces against that structure I would expect complete failure at any time
Well you can tell it didnt happen overnight, anyone with even a little sense would know that they use some thick industrialized steel for those rides (theyre supposed to anyway) and that was no crack like he said its a broken/separated support beam and it supposed to withstand alot of weight and movement but if they were doing normal inspections of these rides they would have found that issue way before now or way before it got to be completely separated. So really this is management's failure to have these rides inspected on a normal basis
When a brittle cylinder is twisted it breaks on a 45 degree plane. I think there is metallurgical problem and the coaster bearing on one side then the other is causing a twisting action kinda like a see saw. I think there is a design flaw more than installation. If there is that condition anywhere else on the ride then the whole thing is suspect. All the welds need to be x rated and I would do some corrosion analysis and stress concentration analysis. It could be one bad connection....or it could be a series of flawed designs bolted together.....if so it gets torn down . I hope they truly analyze it and don't try a band aid fix.
@@bmphil3400you’re the only one that has any idea what their talking about here
I am glad he spotted that and forced them to take action. He definitely saved lives
I can't help but think the amusement park could have wanted to make a bit more money before shutting down the ride (after learning about the safety issue).
@@GarthVonMaranerthey would gain the reputation of death park and lose their customers if they killed people on this ride..
@@latinokid33 😉
@@GarthVonMaranerThis isn’t some fair where they charge people on each ride they go on. Everyone there either has season or day passes, meaning they already paid. This shows that you probably don’t know much about how most amusement parks operate.
He didn’t save anybody the coaster coulda been like that for over a year before anything happened also I got on that ride when I was 10
Good job spotting, videoing, reporting, and doing something about it! This wasn't just a crack, it was a break and should have been picked up long ago. A full enquiry about all aspects of this "amusement" park and the autorities' lack of checking and action needs to be conducted and heads should roll!
Never in a million years should it have come down to him calling the Fire dept. As soon as anyone from the park saw that, it should have been an instant shutdown.
2:00 “Carowinds amusement park issued a statement saying “Safety is our top priority…”
I’m sure they genuinely think that. Judge people - and companies - by what they do, not by what they say. It doesn’t look good for them.
My man the security guard was useless as always.
Definitely…
*mrmrgaming* Yeah? What about a million and one years?
Even then it still took an hour! That’s insane and how the staff didn’t just shut it down is crazy.
This is embarrassment to the theme park community😬
@BasedSigmaMaleWithVaildTakes wdym
America is going downhill fast.
@@gurditasingh6598 huh??
@BasedSigmaMaleWithVaildTakes Lmao
Community? 😂
That fact he had to call fire department to get ride shut down shows how little the park cares about your saftey
If you knew who the insurance carrier was you could notify them too, they'd probably shut the entire park down
parks care about your safety more then anything it was probably some teen that does not care about his job
parks care more about your safety than anything else, but its not about you its about their money.
That's more than just a crack. The whole support is detached!
@gurditasingh6598 we got it after the first 80 times you copy pasted this same comment
@@fortunamajor7239Get therapy
@@fortunamajor7239bruh
Yeah it looks likes it’s going to fall over
like my grandma’s life support
As a welder and bridge inspector for 35 years. I look for things like this at carnivals as well.. Good on this guy, for alerting people to stop a tragedy from happening.
I spend more time enjoying the weld bead than the actual rides lol
Do cracks like that just happen all of a sudden or do they start small and get bigger over time?
@@jaystarr6571 im gonna bed some whale went on the ride an it cracked
@@jaystarr6571 Small and get bigger, just like material fatigue in aircrafts. But it looks more broken than a big crack.
Keep it up!
I clicked on this video thinking there would be drugs on the Roller Coaster for some reason.
That's more than a crack, that pole is 100% broken off.
The people who ignored his reporting of it should be fired. The ride maintenance workers should be fired, the porters covering that area should be fired and an investigation should be launched on the overwatch and maintenance of this park. This pole was SO OBVIOUS looking at it. I wonder how long it had been like that.
NOBODY IGNORED HIS REPORT!!! It was slow to shutdown because HE DIDN'T TELL THE RIDE OPERATORS!!!! He wasted so much time talking to the completely wrong people. He needed to go straight to the station and tell the crew, and the ride would be shutdown right there and then.
@@CouchPotator A security guard is also an ambassador of the theme park. In a case like this, any park employee, whether it is a security guard, a gartner or a mascot in a furry costume, needs to pay attention to this information provided by a visitor. They need to have brain cells enough to realize the potential implications of this impending structural failure and make sure to forward this information to the relevant recipient within the theme park. It can not be the responsibility of the guest to navigate the organization. It wasn't even the responsibility of the guest to conduct structural inspections to begin with, no matter how glaring they may be.
In other words, the security guard in question must be fired to failing to understanding the significance of this information and failing to act.
@@armchair_expert Maybe he should, or maybe the extra bounces of communication needed to get from the guard to security to operations to the station took a long time and the guy only THOUGHT nothing was happening.
@CouchPotator well we found the security guard
@@CouchPotator bro, he could radio them or literally just walk over to the ride to verbally tell them. He's a guard. It's not like he'd have to wait in line for an hour to talk to the ride operators. The maximum amount of time it would take is the length of the walk. There's no reason it would take over an hour to get such important information to them
Unbelievable that park authorities had to wait to be told by the fd to shut it down 😡
Exactly
I wondered how long that crack had been there? And how come the staffs and anybody did not notice it?
@@nwo2coolit had been their for about a week before it was noticed
That's not something anyone would notice unless they're actually looking. I don't blame staff, also it's cedar fair. Cedar Fair will not let a rollercoaster derail. SIX FLAGS on the other hand ONLY MAINTAINS the rides at certain parks though they're all the same ride at every park. But they barely maintain them.
What’s disappointing is the fact that by LAW, they’re supposed to inspect the rollercoaster track every single damn morning before the ride even opens. They need to fire the inspection team or find out if this was a possible terroirst attack.
"Safety is their top priority."
Yeah, it only took them ignoring a concerned park guest showing them video evidence of a safety issue and then having to get the fire department involved.
They closed the ride immediately and safety checks don’t require them to check for cracks and stuff, mainly on the trains and brakes. Some places with egotistical owners and managers would keep it open and delete that video, carowinds got a replacement and checked the ride over multiple rides
It was a Security Officer, sorry, I mean, Guard, it wasn't the park.
"Safety is out top priority",. Proceeds to take 1 hour to shut down a ride with a massive structural defect, and emergency services had to be involved before they'd listen.
NO... I TOOK AN HOUR... AFTER... HE CALLED THE FIRE DEPARTMENT...
The caster said that statement with the tone of get a load of this nonsense
That's how capitalism works. You raised this monster.
Money is our top priority.
Simple mistake. 'Safety' and 'profit' almost sound the same.
Dude is a hometown hero, many ppl couldve died if he didnt take action
@@gurditasingh6598are you 9 or something?
@@oogabooga6411True but it's not good to risk it, plus people will see it and rate the place a 1 star review and won't return because THEY think it's unsafe.
@@oogabooga6411Doesn’t matter. Having a huge crack like that on one of your coasters at an amusement park, doesn’t make the place look good on their part. One wrong move, and that entire roller coaster cart could’ve went flying off the rails. Better safe then sorry.
I watched another video about this and a structural engineer said that 4 or 5 more rides on that coaster and it would have broken the track itself sending the cars hurling off to the ground and every person would have been decapitated and disemboweled
@@oogabooga6411 So what happens when the other support breaks?
You don't have to be an engineer to know what you're looking at.
You don't have to be an authority on anything to know what you're looking at .
There’s no way the inspectors or even the employees didn’t notice it. That’s crazy
there is if they dont look
I am pretty sure the park management already knew about this flaw. To save the maintaining cost they just wanted to ignore it.
Thas crazy 🤯
@@RuLeZ1988 They might have planned to let the insurance company pay for a new Roller Coaster, after a tragedy would have happened. For the management it would have been cheaper to let some people die than to fix it on own cost.
@@pakabe8774 Very well thought.
Thanks a million dad you have kept lives from danger. 👍
It's like that Final Destination movie.😅
@@gurditasingh6598As someone who studies drugs, keep injecting some you totally won't die.
literally nobody would have got hurt or died without that one support the coaster is designed so if something like that does happen nothing bad will happen so stop talking about subjects you know literally nothing about
The lack of urgency from the Security Guard this man showed the footage to, is what's wrong with this world.
Well, I don't think that you should expert security guards to grasp engineering matters quickly.
It’s also possible the guard was caught in the bureaucracy?
@ The security guards first action after seeing the video should have been to go over to the 16 year old kid thats is operating the ride (educated guess to the operators age, but lots of kids run rides at theme parks sadly) and demand they shut the ride down immediately. Worry about keeping your job later. Bureaucracy shouldnt be a factor.
@@barfnugz I agree. Though we don’t really what actions the security guard did take, just that nothing was effective until the fire brigade was called. If the security guard indeed did nothing, then that is certainly bad.
@@barfnugz
Nah, it's usually a majority that operates those kinds of rides.
And now you have absolutely no clue what I'm talking about, which proves my point EXACTLY.
This man should be given a medal.
In my opinion, he overcame his self-doubt, which is amazing in itself and challenged the experts.
Amazing
Yes. He's a great example of not giving in to "bystander effect".
@@DeclanMBrennanthank youuu!!
Absolutely he should
No
Like he said, he's not heroic, he just saw something and called the real hero's.
Final Destination:
Jeremy: I don't think so.
And because he wasn't directly involved it can't get him the curse
Death: "Maaaaaaan...yur ruinin' my fun."
The great thing about this reference, is in my college OSHA class we literally watched clips from the film series to illustrate how terribly the characters responded to crisis situations. XD
@@dreamcanvas5321 lmao that sounds great
@@dreamcanvas5321Did you guys make like a dissertation/analysis on what they *should've* done? Cause honestly i would be interested in the conclusions a whole class came to watching these idiotic characters
the fact that a parent spotted that speaks volumes when talking about park safty inspections. do they even perform them?
It’s obvious these days nobody is really inspecting roller coasters.
Nobody inspects nothing restaurants events amusement parks trains planes
Literal misinformation, stop saying nonsense when you know nothing about what happened
Profit first!
This happened after inspection
@@pbs36 right until they get sued, which they obviously try to avoid. Think for more than 3 seconds first
This dude probably just prevented the worst rollercoaster tragedy in U.S. history from happening. How the hell does one of the employees or whoever is supposed to look out for these things for their job not notice a massive crack like that a long time ago. Someone is being lazy or careless and not doing their job properly. It never should have been allowed to get like that in the first place.
When final destination comes to life but it's not at the race track. 😮 That rides coo tho. Yes, I am gp. And no where in this comment did I state that I'm an engineer. Just stating, just to be stating.. 👋. I feel like I need long nails now
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Youd be surprised with the stuff that happens at the airport… saw some coworkers almost send a plane out with the luggage doors still open… everyone wouldve died 😭
Uh, I don't think that could be true given the perilous nature of early Rollercoasters but I could be wrong?
That's typical that he had to call an OUTSIDE authority to finally get it shut down. It's just ridiculous that it took an hour to get something done. I'd have hit the emergency shutoff switch, consequences be damned.
As a tourist, you don't know where that switch is. The dad did the best anyone can be expected to do.
@@DrBernon you might spot/know, it is at the operators console and at some checkpoints accessable by operators/technicians. Visitors can never reach those areas.
Thank you Dad! ❤
As a dude who works with metal everyday I can tell you this, metal that moves back and forth gets hot, the hotter it gets, the easier it breaks...do the math on how many ride arounds it takes for this heap to end up on the ground?? The fact they needed to be shut down by the father calling the fire dept shows that safety is close to their last priority.
Metal with that much mass isn't going to have an appreciable change of temp from a roller coaster rolling round it every 5-10 mins
Fun fact! Ride designers account for fatigue, and design the structure to stay within the region of "infinite life" (typically with a substantial factor of safety on top of that)
Temperature is not relevant here, look up “material fatigue”
@@Omsip123 cyclic loading
The dad done a good job.
The ride should have been shutdown within minutes of him pointing the fault out
I would bet money that if he did not call the fire department to shut the ride down, the park would have ignore the threat and keep the ride open.
Nothing would have happened since it’s over engineered to last like that for years believe it or not
YAY FREE MONEY FOR ME. If he told the people that were actually running the ride, it would have been closed immediately.
The amusement park owes this man and his family at least a free summer pass.
they could be paying millions in fines so they owe him millions to be honest
Wouldn't be worth getting a free pass to unsafe rides.
That would be like finding a cockroach in your meal at a restaurant and they give you a free gift certificate for another meal there!
@@kingtomador5655no they don’t. He deserves at least just their cheapest year pass and yeah
I'm not sure I'd want to go back, even for free.
IDK. He said he's not an engineer. I think he isn't qualified to say it's dangerous
I read the title and thought someone was doing drugs on the ride.
At least I'm not the only one😅
😂😂
Same
So the thumbnail is useless, okay.
@@zandatsu07 i thought the crack was just one of the mechanicals and i was just trying to find the drugs
After spotting the crack telling a security officer and calling the fire department, it still took an hour to stop the ride 😮
Probably the time of firefighters arriving
@@sergiofonseca2285 yes, but the supervisors in the park should have closed the ride till the inspection.
This guy informed a security guard and nobody shut the ride down until he called the fire department which came out and made them. Let's ponder that for a few moments
Dude, my heart leapt in my chest when I saw that cracked support beam shift. I'm SO relieved someone said something before a real disaster could happen!!!
Nothing would have happened
literally nobody would have got hurt or died without that one support the coaster is designed so if something like that does happen nothing bad will happen so stop talking about subjects you know literally nothing about
@eelovfx9200 Take your own advice!
If the strut wasn't needed, it wouldn't be there. Besides, the people who inspected it and *actually* know what they're talking about deemed it unsafe enough to close the ride, so... You're wrong.
“Safety is our top priority “ yet 2 employees did not take it serious like that’s INSANE to even think about as an employee I’d Immediately shut down that ride down
That is just 2 employees it is still safe if you check the records compared to a car millions of people go on and barely any die
Safety no, profit yes
Don't let this video make you scared of roller coasters, how rare it is for this to happen is unbelievable, those people were just extremely unlucky.
Dang the Dad beat the Inspectors
I was at an amusement park one night, and while I was in line waiting for the ride, I saw a huge bolt come flying off the ride I was going to get on. I reported it. Luckily, the staff listened and shut the ride down. Thank God this man was attentive and made them listen by contacting the Fire Dept.
Just a bolt is not much. It could of been from one of the trains or wheel assemblies but it’s still good you reported it
@@Pianissemoa bolt from a train could cause the train to derail... that's a HUGE deal because it could kill people
@@kaitlinreichert606 it depends from the manufacturer. Generally 1 bolt should cause the ride to get an inspection but can’t exactly cause it to derail the entire train.
You did your duty. Thank you.
@@Pianissemo Without knowing where 1 bolt came from.. it might be not much.. or it could be something vital. Not worth the gamble of injury / death / lawsuites to take a chance...
He saved a lot of lives
God Bless you Sir
Many would have uploaded to social media and said nothing
Its crazy it took them so long to shut the ride down after he alerted them.
Would've taken longer for the ride to be shut down if he hadn't called the Fire Department to report it.
Right? That’s so dangerous. That’s not even just a small crack, the whole beam is broken in half
@@bethanyoneal5789literally nobody would have got hurt or died without that one support the coaster is designed so if something like that does happen nothing bad will happen so stop talking about subjects you know literally nothing about
@@eelovfx9200 so, you would be okay with your kids riding it knowing the crack is there because it's 'designed' for problems like this. you'd put your faith and trust in the people who designed something that failed assuming it was constructed to their specs, or the construction of people who designed something that broke.
@@eelovfx9200 im pretty sure a coaster made of heavy metal needs supports for it to not come crashing to the ground
The moment he informed park management is when the ride needed to be shut down, not wait for the fire department to show up.
not sure if security has the rights to shut down a ride could be wrong i think you have to either go to the ride operators or contact the management
@@newhyperspace43 i'd say with confidence that on the operatrs/security contracts there is written that if they deem to be a risk for the park customers, they have all the right and authority to shut it down. this sounds more like an average management moment "it's always been like that in the last 2 years Billy, the engeneer said its fine, do you know how much money we lose by shutting it down on a day like this?" pretty average.
The fact he had to call the fire department because the park wouldn't do anything should be reason enough for a park-wide analysis
Although i have more anxiety i can deal with, it is still worth going above and beyond to save peoples lives if the intial people whose responsibility to maintain safety ignores it or doesnt notice. this is a world full of humans who make mistakes everyday no matter what your reputation is in society, and we all need to support eachother like this wonderful man is showing us.
Well said
He didn’t safe any lives it could have operated fine like that it’s just that the media is overreacting
@@gurditasingh6598 Get Help!
@@C0astinG4mer Grow Up!!
@@HerriCaine ok than tell me why you think this is such a big deal then. You need to grow tf up if you actually believe everything they tell you
The scary part about it is that the staff weren't reacting quickly. Very suspicious. Glad he called the fire department.
An hour. That’s insane!! They need to take these reports way more seriously.
Gotta wait on authority from the stuffed shirts to finish playing their round of golf.
The tallest and fastest roller coaster in North America is the Kingda ka and its above 400Ft, Fury 325 is above 300Ft.
And the longest in North America is the beast at kings island
@@diamondbackproductions71im pretty sure thats just the longest wooden coaster not the longest coaster in general
@@everythinggame5 no if you check Rcdb beast is the longest in North America
That man probably saved a lot of lives. You can see just from the video it was a disaster in waiting. I would have thought they would have inspection teams checking rides routinely at those types of parks, obviously not.
No he saved no lives cuz it’s has sway and redundancy which means it could have operated like that for a while believe it or not. Just informing the masses about the medias dirty lies
The park better have paid him for spotting that flaw. He did their work for them. Shame on the park staff for not noticing this
This man is a hero! The countless lives this man has saved, as well as lawsuits for the theme park. Amazing.
Nothing can happen. Just the track flexing more than usual
Thank you for your professional opinion. Yeah you're right, I'm sure nothing can happen. In fact, I'm sure they left it unfixed because after all, nothing can happen.
@@mattconway8851 just saying, it’s still a shame how carowinds didn’t notice this.
@Who-lj8mb finally, someone who’s also informed.
if you know anything about physics and how roller coasters work, then you would know that no one was in danger here. The ride is built with redundancies to keep the ride up and perfectly safe even in event of something like this. That support could be removed and the ride could run
That really had my heart beat so badly. Thank God the parents realized the crack on the rollercoaster ride.
@@gurditasingh6598sush
I must say, the engineering of that coaster is impressive, to have continued to function with a complete break
HIGHLY DOUBT that none of the staff members knew/saw the issue beforehand.
I can't believe they didn't shut that ride down in a heartbeat.
I wonder if those kids operating the rides got harassed
The fact that they continued to let the ride operate suggests sheer negligence of the park.
Ty sir, I vote you, dad of the YEAR!
How on earth has this gone without being noticed?
Crack formed after inspection
Duuude! I cant even picture the unimaginable tragedy of those people being flung off of that ride. There couldve been bodies everywhere. Kudos to the guy who didnt let it rest.
While there was a lot of negligence from the park, nobody was in super big danger, rollercoasters tend to use more supports than needed to help reduce stress on the supports. However if this wasn’t caught for like a week then it could have potentially been pretty bad
what you described it quite literally impossible 😂
if you know anything about physics and how roller coasters work, then you would know that no one was in danger here. The ride is built with redundancies to keep the ride up and perfectly safe even in event of something like this. That support could be removed and the ride could run.
Keep in mind, this man's DAUGHTER went on the ride eight times that same day. I'm pretty sure he was terrified at the possibility of this ride falling apart should she have gotten on it again. The man says he's not a hero, but in a way he is, because he saved countless other sons and daughters from possible death.
Wow, good eye, dad!! Wonder how this ever could have fallen through the *cracks.*
Even better that the small crack was first discovered on June 24th. But wasn’t shut down until the 29th.
Parks fault 100% Carowinds executives about to get axed.
@@rmasterstudios Exactly!
There’s entire RUclips channels that cover only amusement park ride disasters. Nearly every time, it came down to the park’s laziness at maintenance.
HERO. !!!! This man just saved alot of people, alot of pain.
No he saved no lives cuz it’s has sway and redundancy which means it could have operated like that for a while believe it or not. Just informing the masses about the medias dirty lies
That post beam doesn’t need fixing, it needs to be replaced.
"Safety is their top priority."
Clearly not. And here I was hoping that there was a daily walk around for every ride to ensure safety.
OMG The worst part is that they dare to issue the blatant lie that safety is their top priority!
Tallest and fastest is definitely not true. Tallest belongs to kingda ka (456’ feet). Longest is correct. And fastest is again kingda ka.
It's the tallest and fastest giga
*Yukon striker has entered the chat*
@@redranger8603 yes but they didnt say tallest and fastest GIGA
@@GorillaWithACellphonegiga was the first thing they said…
@@khari999 but they said it in a way that sounds different then what they meanr
Good thing he noticed that crack. Prevented accidents, injuries, and death. Now that rollercoaster can be fixed.
the ride owners should be held liable at trial. they ignored the warning until fire dept came to shut them down.
I was shocked when I first heard about this recent news about a cracked support beam on a roller coaster, by the looks of the crack it can be clearly seen during the day. I’m just glad that father noticed that huge crack of the support beam of the roller coaster, if it wasn’t for him, it would’ve ended up in a tragic roller coaster accident. That father was quite a hero that day from preventing a horrible accident from happening.
Why does your comment sound computer generated
I’m so glad that this didn’t end in a tragedy! I have seen too many deaths at amusement parks. Thank God for this man.
The park didn't shut down the ride even after being notified and with video? The fire department (a gov agency) has to step in to shut down, and it kept going for an hour after it was reported! Insane negligence, goes on to show, how much the park cares about your safety
Obviously I know what side you're on when you expect the government to come save you.
@@armybeef68 huh? I said park employees didn't shut down part after knowing ride was broken, is unbelievable. And they can't say no to gov so gov agency needed to come to tell them they can't continue, such negligence from park employees is wild. They don't care about people safety because they didn't closed the ride. That's what i was trying to say. I'm not even from USA, i'm not on any side, but i have to take a side, i would rarely take gov side, because gov is pain in the ***, almost everywhere in the world.
This man potentially saved like 30 lives; Thank God for the Fire Department 👍
He didn’t save lives. He just made the track flex less than usual.
@Who-lj8mbstupid Comment you do realize if he didn’t spot that that crack would’ve gotten bigger in the truck would’ve probably fallen and people would’ve gotten killed you clearly don’t know what he was talking about
@Who-lj8mb If that support is broken and moving - now that more is moving - what else is starting to weaken as a result? Potential is probably there to be deadly.. depending on how much may have degraded as well. A full inspection will tell how close it was to catastrophic failure..
I think my first stop would have been the kid operating the ride, show him the video and shut down the ride. Sure, people who've waited in line for 30 minutes might be pissy, but running that ride for another hour as it was is just asking for people to be killed, not just the 32 on the car but dozens on the ground below. If the operator doesn't have the authority to shut it down when seeing a safety issue, then that amusement park is begging to be sued.
Within an hour? It took them an hour to shut it down after he saw the crack? Crazy.
He's kind of like Kate Shelley. In 1881, a teenage girl named Kate Shelley stopped a train from leaving a station in Iowa after a bridge near her house collapsed in a storm.
I had to look that story up. I never heard that story before. She is indeed a hero.
@@007NowOnline Yep. I actually first heard about that story from an episode of Reading Rainbow.
@@CanadaDragon1 Nice! I loved that show when I was a kid.
Bless those parents. Save lives
No he saved no lives cuz it’s has sway and redundancy which means it could have operated like that for a while believe it or not. Just informing the masses about the medias dirty lies
*That dad saved countless lives!*
first!! BRO THIS IS HELLA DANGEROUS WTF! i’m with you dad 😡
I’m just glad no one was hurt
Obviously the ride wants to flex there, and it broke because it's not allowed to. It's like any tall building. Take the Sears (Willis) Tower for example. The top floor of Willis Tower can move about 12 feet in any direction on a windy day, and it's designed to, otherwise it would do the same here. It's called a compliant mechanism. If that particular joint was on a spring-loaded axle that would allow it to flex out when the coaster comes around that corner and then returns to center when it's gone, that might be a solution.
You know it's sad when a parent spots it before its own maintenance crew & groundskeepers do.
Man this guy saved a lot of people's lives.
He saved literally no one
@@eelovfx9200 yeah but if your kid was on the next ride and died. You would wonder why nobody said nothing
@@lickourballs1atatimeok literally nobody would have got hurt or died without that one support the coaster is designed so if something like that does happen nothing bad will happen so stop talking about subjects you know literally nothing about
@@eelovfx9200 they all belive until the worst happens. THEN WEEKS OF EXCUSES and 💩 lies
@@lickourballs1atatimeok I'm assuming you just completely disregarded my last comment
The company must have been aware of the situation but decided to keep the attraction open. The revenue stream is probably too substantial to warrant closure. They seem to find it more cost-effective to compensate for injuries than to shut it down. Oddly enough, if a fatality were to occur, it could paradoxically benefit them, garnering free publicity as the "most dangerous ride" and potentially attracting more patrons.It's a peculiar world we live in, isn't it?
It’s nice to know they took responsibility and at least shut it down. Usually at a workplace something isn’t fixed til it’s broken no matter how much notice there is even tho you’re trying to prevent big problems
It was only because the fire department got involved
@@nalsra0ooohh, you're speaking facts!
@@nalsra0nah that’s just not true it’s just cause the media got to it and the media loves to make roller coasters seem like the devil because it makes them money
@@C0astinG4mer Lmfao bro you have to be kidding. No person in the right mind thinks a crack like that is safe.
@@nalsra0 believe it or not, that ride is built with something like this happening in mind meaning that it could have operated like that for years
"Closed within an HOUR" 💀
It's because HE DIDN'T TELL THE RIDE OPERATORS!!!! He wasted so much time talking to the completely wrong people. He needed to go straight to the station and tell the crew, and the ride would be shutdown right there and then.
@@CouchPotatorif only the guard had a functioning brain. Then the guard could've gotten that information to them within a few minutes. Or in less than a minute if most employees have long distance walkies
Thanks to the Dad that was looking out. So glad you spoke up.
I’m so glad he caught it in time and definitely saved a lot of lives.
Now death wants revenge from him.😆 Final destination reboot.
Nope. coaster would still be safe for about a year. But, better safe than sorry i guess.
literally nobody would have got hurt or died without that one support the coaster is designed so if something like that does happen nothing bad will happen so stop talking about subjects you know literally nothing about
if you know anything about physics and how roller coasters work, then you would know that no one was in danger here. The ride is built with redundancies to keep the ride up and perfectly safe even in event of something like this. That support could be removed and the ride could run.
In surprised this would happen on fury 325.
It literally is the best ever giga coaster out their and if someone died that would be embarrassing.
kind of alarming that they completely ignored him even after showing the video. they only closed the ride when the fire department came in
Cutting corners, there is your answer.
Literally 😅
Where? With what? How? Elaborate, you have nothing to back you up
yep because going accident free for 10 years doesn't matter because natural wear and tear is something that is totally the parks fault and is there fault for paying attention to and fixing....