andy_e219 Posted July 7, 2008 Posted July 7, 2008 Check it out kdka.com/local/Kennywood.King.Kahuna.2.764903.html
Scaparri Posted July 7, 2008 Posted July 7, 2008 I refuse to ride this again. Yeah, there you go! 'Cause an incident will never happen on any other ride besides King Kahuna, so no need to avoid any of the other rides in the world! Seriously, rides are machines... they break... sometimes in unusual positions or places. It's part of it.
krazekiddd Posted July 7, 2008 Posted July 7, 2008 I better not fly a plane or drive a car ever again. Accidents happen.
andy_e219 Posted July 7, 2008 Author Posted July 7, 2008 I better not fly a plane or drive a car ever again. Accidents happen. People die in amusment parks, get seriously hurt, and you just say accidents happen.
Kingbooba Posted July 7, 2008 Posted July 7, 2008 I better not fly a plane or drive a car ever again. Accidents happen. People die in amusment parks, get seriously hurt, and you just say accidents happen. If you're afraid of this stuff, then you shouldn't ride coasters. Thus, you shouldn't be on this site. Seriously, accidents do happen. The boy getting decapitated at Six Flags over Georgia wasn't an accident. It was the boy's fault! A good number of deaths at theme parks are the guest's fault!
DATman Posted July 7, 2008 Posted July 7, 2008 ^^People die in car accidents EVERY DAY. Do you still drive?
coasterguy618 Posted July 7, 2008 Posted July 7, 2008 Wow, this hasn't been a good month for the Amusement Park business. But seriously, neck injuries and "dangling and being smashed"? Give me a break.
Skramp Posted July 7, 2008 Posted July 7, 2008 OMG!!! You have to be kidding!!! A ride got stuck??? NO WAY!! This reminds of when the sky tower at Knott's got stuck a few weeks ago, I mean we needed a whole post describing how an inanimate machine happened to break down and it was such a scare!!! Yes, accidents happen, welcome to life, don't fight with it, you won't win. Seriously, stuff happens all the time, some of it serious, most of it not. If stuff happening bothers you, go to the store, load up on stuff and never open your door again.
Jew Posted July 7, 2008 Posted July 7, 2008 There's nothing wrong with being worried about riding an ride that previously had an accident. Because, hey, you never know...the ride could be fine, or it could be a real problem and happen again the next day.
ParkTrips Posted July 7, 2008 Posted July 7, 2008 hey now, the article says that there were people injured. She says she suffered neck and shoulder injuries. It may be more than just a routine malfunction where the ride got temporarily stopped... I wonder if the attempted e-stop is why the riders got hurt. Let's not write this one off as media hype just yet, though I do totally agree that there is inherit risk in pretty much anything and that shouldn't dissuade anyone from riding this
All Clear Posted July 7, 2008 Posted July 7, 2008 Ah, good ol' neck and shoulder injuries. Difficult to disprove and they pay so well.
gldude Posted July 7, 2008 Posted July 7, 2008 This reminds me, back in 2001 when GL was flying the flags a troupe of Chinese Acrobats that were preforming at the park that weekend got stuck on Texas Twister (identical to KA). They were fortunately not upside down, rather swinging freely about 15 feet off the ground. I hate to say that it was funny but seeing a group of people sitting there with confused looks on their faces while wearing only purple sequence unitards, I couldn't help but laugh. They were like that for about 15 minutes, this however was not news. Its nice that Kennywood invited them back free of charge but I really don't think a ride malfunction needs to make the news, now if they were stuck upside down for an hour that might be different.
Jew Posted July 7, 2008 Posted July 7, 2008 ^^Spend 10 minutes upside down in the already uncomfortable Top Spin restraints and see how your back/neck feel...
Sunfire Posted July 7, 2008 Posted July 7, 2008 ^I'd have to agree. The restraints on Firefall at CGA are killer when they hang you upside down. I would hate to be stuck like that for a long time. At least it wasn't like the Magic Springs incident where they were stuck for over an hour. If that had happened on a Top Spin, it would be much bigger news. But of course, from working at a theme park, I know that rides malfunction, many times in fact. This just happened to be a more major downtime.
All Clear Posted July 7, 2008 Posted July 7, 2008 Discomfort is one thing, injury is another. I'm not saying I don't feel bad for the people who were stuck. But people do tend to blow these things out of proportion.
coasterfreak101 Posted July 7, 2008 Posted July 7, 2008 I got stuck at the bottom of Iron Eagle (sideways-ish Top Spin) at SFA upside down for ten minutes on one of its first cycles after years of never running. Now those are uncomfortable restraints. Where's my news story? All I got were exit tickets for one ride...go customer service!
kumba830 Posted July 7, 2008 Posted July 7, 2008 I got stuck on King Chaos ... upside down for like 8 minutes? did i get injured no! The only thing I got from that was a sore feeling and a bright red face
Movieguy Posted July 7, 2008 Posted July 7, 2008 King Kahuna was the first Top Spin I ever went on. If that thing got stuck, I would have freaked out, cause I'm a little claustrophobic.
Kingbooba Posted July 7, 2008 Posted July 7, 2008 I was stuck on The Crypt at King's Dominion for 10 minutes because the platform wouldn't rise. (Suspended Top Spin) But guess what? I didn't even get my ride! I came off along with other people, they test run it once, works fine, re-open it, works fine with people on it. The other people and I got NOTHING!! Anyway, sorry for that rant. I've never ridden a real Top Spin with both restraints. Is it really bad? I have ridden a Looping Starship, which has the same restraints, and I find them quite fun, but painful, thanks to the difficulty to breathe.
jamesdillaman Posted July 7, 2008 Posted July 7, 2008 ^ That's surprising, did you ask to talk to guest relations? I imagine if you found the right person, they would do what they could to make it right. -James Dillaman
Yeti762 Posted July 7, 2008 Posted July 7, 2008 They figured out what the problem was and Mary Lou was just on the 6:00 news. The ride has reopened as of 5:00pm today A speck of debris, no bigger than a grain of sand, got lodged in the braking mechanism and is what caused the problem. http://kdka.com/local/Kennywood.King.Kahuna.2.765544.html
Kingbooba Posted July 7, 2008 Posted July 7, 2008 ^ That's surprising, did you ask to talk to guest relations? I imagine if you found the right person, they would do what they could to make it right. -James Dillaman Who? Me? If so, yes I e-mailed them, they responded saying stuff I already know. But I was glad they replied nonetheless.
MASH80554077 Posted July 7, 2008 Posted July 7, 2008 Ok is it just me or was that woman on the video overreacting. I don't think she was injured..... it may have been very uncomfortable but i guarantee you, it did not injure her. She also acted like being stuck upside down for 10 minutes was so terrible and that it was a crisis that the pakr let this happen. I mean it seems a little ridiculous.
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