girl gets her feet cut off at fucking six flags. thats hardcore.
According to MetroSafe dispatch supervisors, the girl was riding the Superman Tower of Power, which is 177 feet tall and drops riders at 54 miles per hour. According to Kentucky Kingdom, the girl was injured when the ride malfunctioned.
These hillbillies paint a really clear picture of how it went down. this cable snapped. shitty pic of broken cable
“We
seen the cable break loose soon as it got to the top on the right-hand side,” said Chris Williams, who witnessed the event.
Treva Smith said it snapped again as the ride descended.
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The people on the ride just came and hit the ground,” Smith said.
Williams said she saw the teen maimed.
“As the ride came down, the wire swung left, struck the young lady on the back side of my children,” Williams said.
Williams’ daughter Amber said she gave up her seat to the 13-year-old and was sitting on the other side of the ride. Williams rushed toward the ride to find his daughter. As Smith raced to find members of her group, she said she made a gruesome discovery.
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When I got up there, the lady, she was just sitting there and she didn’t have no legs,” Smith said. “She didn’t have no legs at all. She was just calm, probably in shock from everything.”
holy shit.
Smith said she saw no blood and the girl wasn’t crying, but the same couldn’t be said for many who witnessed the incident on the ride formerly known as the Hellevator.
“My son’s over there tripping out, man,” Williams said. “You want to come to a park and feel safe you know. We’ve got season passes. We’re not coming back for sure.”
But other visitors aren’t so worried.
“Every park, one in a million maybe something happens,” park visitor Kenneth Lay said. “But I have no fear.”
On scene EMT personnel were on hand to immediately transport the girl to a hospital. As of 10:34 p.m. Thursday there was no word on her condition.
Inspectors arrived Thursday night to begin determining what happened. They said they checked checking the cable in question.
The ride was shut down and was scheduled to remain so until the investigation has been completed. On Friday, Six Flags spokeswoman Carolyn McClean said the company is shutting down similar rides in other parks. King's Island in Cincinnati, which has a similar ride from the same manufacturer, announced that ride will be closed until it has been inspected.
A Swiss company called Intamin designed the Superman Tower of Power, on which a teen rider lost both her feet Thursday.
Intamin is considered a leader in the design of amusement park rides. It has supplied some two dozen different styles of rides at amusement parks around the world.
The company is responsible for a number of rides similar to Superman Tower of Power, and is credited with inventing the first free-fall ride.
we have the same thing pretty much here at cedar point. i was on it like 2 months ago.
