Wow, I am glad noone died
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(3 votes, average: 3.67 out of 5)Amusement park rescue mission gone wrong
Posted on Friday, October 13th, 2006 under Entertainment
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SWEET JESUS!!! I’m amazed that no one died. I’d think that falling from such a height would kill you.
I took my 6 yo niece to Disneyland many years ago, and she wanted to go on the “It’s A Small World” ride. There’s one point on the ride, about half-way through where the little egg or teacup or whatever the hell you ride in does an abrupt half-turn and then goes down a steep incline backwards so that you can see the little animatronic puppets or whatever they’re called that are above you as you go down the incline. It’s not a violent maneuver or anything since it’s a little-kids’ ride, but you’re in a wierd kind of upside down & backwards position for a moment with a creepy singing puppet right in your face, and I thought to myself that it would really suck if the conveyor broke down just as you were going through that spot and you had to hang upside down about 40 feet above the floor & nose-to-nose with those freaky puppets howling at you until someone came with a ladder to get you down.
Well my niece (6 yo, remember) just HAD to go on the ride a second time, so we did, and GUESS what happened? And to make matters even worse, it was near the end of the day, so they decided to just shut the ride down and then fix the conveyor the next day or something like that. And since our little car/egg/teacup/bucket was kind of upside & backwards & way up off of the ground, I’m guessing they just didn’t see us & didn’t think to check & see if anybody was up there. They turned all of the lights off & everything, but they didn’t shut the music off for whatever reason, so they couldn’t/didn’t hear us shouting and we ended up stuck and hanging there for about 10 hours. In the dark. Upside down. With “It’s a Small World” playing at a really high volume over and over and over again. To this day, my niece gets all freaked out if anybody even mentions the word “Disney” around her, and anytime I hear “It’s a Small World” (or any group of children singing ANY song)I feel like I want to kill people and set things on fire.
So, at least to me, falling from a tall aerial ride/roller-coaster doesn’t seem like it’s that bad of an amusement park accident. I’m just sayin’ -