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Growing up in the 80's.
#26966793 - 10/03/20 12:07 AM (3 years, 3 months ago) |
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Yeah, not in Jersey but in a Wave Pool I almost drowned trying to get to that fucking ladder and almost flew off the Alpine slide in Park City. I shouldn't laugh but as a 80's kid I get it. Wasn't the fear of the M's. Plus the regulations which isn't a bad thing.
But yeah, I felt real fear. You don't give a kid a plastic thing to ride down on a mountain with allowing him/her to go as fast as they want to. Almost flipped it. I love adrenaline, but shit looking back at it that was a rush.
God, the Summer of Covid. What a waste. They have a place here in Utah called Lagoon and I love the flying swings that go over an actual lagoon. Felt like taking the buckle off and flying into it though I would be banned for life.
Someone died from a roller coaster there, not joking, from standing up and having their head removed. Quick death but the other people on it and the blood things like that would never leave ones mind.
What is the worst story you have experienced or heard at amusement parks and recreational places?
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Re: Growing up in the 80's. [Re: Barnaby]
#26966831 - 10/03/20 01:14 AM (3 years, 3 months ago) |
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There’s an old west themed amusement park near here that was partly known for for theatrical shootouts or something like that. They were supposed to only shoot blanks but apparently at one point someone got shot in the leg during a show, barely missing the femoral artery
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I was just tall enough to ride this ferris wheel where the pods spun in circles in line with direction of the wheel if that makes sense. I was an extremely skinny kid (chubby bastard now), well while riding this ride I was spinning it like crazy. I slipped under the metal lock in place bar, and found myself on my hands and knees on the cage that opens to allow passengers entrance and exit, looking down about 300 ft. The only thing holding the cage shut whas a rusty latch and pin and a dollar store padlock.
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Re: Growing up in the 80's. [Re: Ice9]
#26966837 - 10/03/20 01:24 AM (3 years, 3 months ago) |
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Turbo? Rock-o-plane?
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Like this, but the cages rotated

Pretty sure this was it

Notice all the carriages at slightly different rotational position along the ferris wheel axis
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Re: Growing up in the 80's. [Re: Ice9]
#26966853 - 10/03/20 01:52 AM (3 years, 3 months ago) |
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Re: Growing up in the 80's. [Re: Ice9]
#26966855 - 10/03/20 01:53 AM (3 years, 3 months ago) |
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Them where the days. Ride went as long as it took for the operator to shoot up or handle his biz.
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Re: Growing up in the 80's. [Re: Asante]
#26966857 - 10/03/20 01:54 AM (3 years, 3 months ago) |
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Yep, in a see through mesh T-shirt, selling kids weed for rides lol... not anymore, especially after KC Schlitterbaun tragedy.
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Re: Growing up in the 80's. [Re: Ice9]
#26966959 - 10/03/20 04:52 AM (3 years, 3 months ago) |
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i been to shlitterb near auston
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I once banged a complete stranger in a Six Flags restroom...
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Re: Growing up in the 80's. [Re: Dilsnique] 1
#26972457 - 10/06/20 04:15 PM (3 years, 3 months ago) |
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those rides look rly cool.. i nvr went 2 a park b4
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Re: Growing up in the 80's. [Re: Dilsnique]
#26972776 - 10/06/20 07:02 PM (3 years, 3 months ago) |
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Re: Growing up in the 80's. [Re: schmutzen]
#26972835 - 10/06/20 07:46 PM (3 years, 3 months ago) |
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I grew up in the 80's fab times. Didn't see any hectic deaths on the dangerous rides of the day though.
Just a year or three ago at some theme park here in Aus one of those raging rapids type rides went titsup and most of the people on that particular carriage ended up dead. Drowned and bashed to a bloody pulp on the bottom of the fake river. They shut the park down for ages after that and had full super enquiries and safety audits and stuff. Bad day for thrill seekers.
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Re: Growing up in the 80's. [Re: Barnaby]
#26972984 - 10/06/20 10:01 PM (3 years, 3 months ago) |
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God this made movie made laugh for those of that timeframe.
VHYES. Now let us release the new album Anal Fuck 666 and the old scroll down to click on to tune into on old cable. Clit 3. Lol. There were never such things but they know how to use the old graphics.
Wow, fits the 80's quite well. There is also a book about the time with people before the internet and when it just started and where it is now. That strange divide.
80's people will find great joy in this movie. Tim Robbins and Susan makes a cameo. They get it and produced it.
And yes R.I.P. Eddie.
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Re: Growing up in the 80's. [Re: Barnaby]
#26973088 - 10/07/20 12:45 AM (3 years, 3 months ago) |
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Wow. There are some really fucked up vids. Youtube censored, wouldn't want to see it really as I went to one faces of death movie screening and couldn't get through half of it. Felt like losing consciousness feeling and sickness. This is just brutal.
One of those that I love to go on and is such a rush at that height. But shit, been watching a lot of these vids and the odds of it happening to one especially nowadays are basically zero but still. It bothers me deeply. I will add just one. Escpecially how long it takes the paramedics and "engineers" to get one out and enduring that. Get "shock" as the body and it's way to handle yet still, God, so many of these are so bad and I am not scared but back then, yeah, think I would of been.
More correct.
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Re: Growing up in the 80's. [Re: Barnaby] 1
#26973160 - 10/07/20 03:17 AM (3 years, 3 months ago) |
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Someone shit thier pants on that centrifuge ride at the carnival when I was a kid. They hosed it down and it was ready for action the next day. Those were the days.
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Re: Growing up in the 80's. [Re: GreenHorns]
#26973651 - 10/07/20 11:19 AM (3 years, 3 months ago) |
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Good song. Carnies, lol. Finest of engineers. I like this song by Zombie by the really old times.
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Re: Growing up in the 80's. [Re: Barnaby]
#26974502 - 10/07/20 08:50 PM (3 years, 3 months ago) |
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I got stabbed with a rusty nail on a ride at a seaside amusement park in York Beach, Maine in the mid 80s. Had to get a tetanus shot.
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Re: Growing up in the 80's. [Re: koods] 1
#26974536 - 10/07/20 09:05 PM (3 years, 3 months ago) |
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You should add that to the list! 
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koods said: Naw I'm fine. But did I tell you guys about the time I accidentally detonated a time bomb I made from black power packed into rolled cardboard. That blasted the top layer of skin off my right arm.
I fell out of a tree and landed head first on a brick. That one wasn't very bad but it bled like a motherfucker.
I got my sweatshirt snagged in th front wheel of my bike as I was flying down a hill with my friend on the back of the bike. We flipped head first over the front wheel. I smeared my forearms along the pavement for 20 feet and he got flung into a bush.
I dislocated my finger playing basketball. It ended up bent sideways at a 90° angle and had to be reset under anesthesia.
I dislocated my shoulder playing hockey but it popped back in spontaneously.
I had a metal lab spatula impaled an inch under my kneecap. That I just pulled out and put a band aide on it.
I got hit in the forehead with a golf club when I stood too close to my friend as he teed off. That required a bunch of stitches.
I got hit in the face with a baseball bat when I was playing catcher when the batters grip slipped on his backswing.
I know I'm forgetting something
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Re: Growing up in the 80's. [Re: mycosis]
#26974545 - 10/07/20 09:16 PM (3 years, 3 months ago) |
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Lol
I was just telling my friend how many times I went to the emergency room at Walter Reed (back then it was Bethesda naval hospital l) and there are five on that list. Probably another five when I was sick.
I was a disaster as a child
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Re: Growing up in the 80's. [Re: Barnaby]
#26974745 - 10/08/20 12:24 AM (3 years, 3 months ago) |
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God, even then if you are stupid enough to take a ride like that on a raft that needs to be a certain weight but doesn't meet it, and they don't know, I could never get that out of my mind.
I like amusement parks for the rush of adrenaline and they let you drink and take drugs. Since it is the year of Covid just got stuck on some bad disasters but I never have felt fear on a ride. But if I looked at this shit, there is no way in hell I would go on it.
Blind trust is stupid. Back then it was word of mouth but nowadays and for the better regulations are soooo much better. So here is a decapitation story.
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Re: Growing up in the 80's. [Re: Barnaby]
#26977902 - 10/10/20 03:15 AM (3 years, 3 months ago) |
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Koods reminded me of having bright idea, Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk 1984. Got out of my haunted mansion car and proceeded to get run over by said car. Good times for sure.
also at western festival, Elk Grove CA 80's
Brown recluse bit someone while riding the "Turbo". Her leg was purple and leaking puss before the ride even came to a stop. Good times.
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Yeah. Stayed at a house when younger and seeing a black widow by my bed but didn't really bother me just from being naive and young.
Brown recluses, saw a whole documentary on them. Get the name. Seriously the last spider I would want to be bitten by. They try to make tartrantals scary in movies and shit but are basically harmless to my understanding.
But that one, shit. Would rather be stung by a scorpion or certain snakes than that. Amazing how something so small can do such damage to one's body.
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Re: Growing up in the 80's. [Re: Barnaby]
#26980114 - 10/11/20 02:37 PM (3 years, 3 months ago) |
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When MTV used to be MTV. Life was so much simpler then.
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#26980134 - 10/11/20 02:50 PM (3 years, 3 months ago) |
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back when MTV actually meant Music Television.
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