[Oswald2001]

Originally Posted by Yourmainman28 ↗

That fuckin sucks. Carnies never inspect these things.

Well, they have to keep up their meth addiction.

It's a full time job too.

[iridopelma]

Originally Posted by souris ↗

sorry I can't help laughing a bit. Everyone's worst nightmare when you get on a konklin ride

I was wondering what show it was figures it was conklin

[iridopelma]

Originally Posted by habsphannn ↗

Couple of things come to mind: 1. Was the person shooting this video doing so while riding on another one of the carnival rides?
2. That female cop really sucks at crowd control.

They're standing off to the side filming it. Friends and family of the people on the ride often take video of it.

[ZVClosetpsycho]

Anyone else feel a little sketched out by the videos, and aftermath? Like: when I first saw the video, I thought it was fake. The people. The aftermath. It honestly does not look real to me.

Crisis Actors? I tend to be skeptic about everything until I find not a possible way it did not happen.

[King Herald]

Originally Posted by hearty harry ↗

Them thrill seekers got thrilled alright.

The reason it is such fun is that there IS the risk and the danger.

You could do the same ride in a virtually reality box type ride thingy, for a hundredth of the build cost, and a hundred times safer, but people will still want to ride the real thing, simply because it can go wrong sometimes.

[souris]

[Boondoggle]

When I was in high school I took a temp job helping a carnival crew setup and breakdown. After seeing how that's done and the people who do it, I swore I would never get on another carnival ride, and I haven't to this day. You couldn't fucking pay me to get on any of those things. They're death traps.

[Meridian]

Originally Posted by King Herald ↗

The reason it is such fun is that there IS the risk and the danger.

You could do the same ride in a virtually reality box type ride thingy, for a hundredth of the build cost, and a hundred times safer, but people will still want to ride the real thing, simply because it can go wrong sometimes.

That's such bollocks. I love thrill rides but I would never ride one or take my kids on one if I thought the damn thing would break up and send us into oblivion. That's not part of the deal!

[detector2002]

some amateur analysis from facebook..
"If you look at the base of the ride, there is an accordion-like folding floor of plate aluminum- like a large dock plate for a semi trailer, that covers the base and framing of the ride, so riders can walk on it and get safely into their individual seats, 4 to a section.
One section of the aluminum plate floor is folded "up", right at 6 o'clock, sticking way up above floor level by as much as a foot towards the back, and visually exposing the framework below. Couple that will witnesses saying that they kept telling ride operators to 'slow it down', and basically, I think that back car caught that aluminum folding floor. Centrifugal force with something that big and heavy, that hard, could easily affect the swing by a couple crucial millimeters. You can even hear the hit right at that point if you study it."

[gimlet]

Originally Posted by Biznass ↗

Looks like some failed NDT testing or a lack of!

Looks like those Dutch might have used cheap Chinese pot metal to build this ride.