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jetz0r posted:Having those levers right next to each other is a terrible design decision. It was the guy on the ground you see tugging at the cable, the pilot was rightfully pissed. http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/6167341/Chopper-crash-pilot-wants-answers
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Also for extra awesome points, the guy in the red shirt running up to help the co-pilot is the cameraman. After the crash he immediately abandoned filming and went into hero mode.
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What surprises me is nobody was injured, I'd have thought the rigger on the ground would have had his hand pretty hosed up. He was holding a cable struck by a rotor blade, how did that not mangle his fingers?
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Ash1138 posted:Well I wonder which one of my recurring disaster nightmares that my brain will latch this one onto: tornadoes or nuclear missile strike?
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GotLag posted:What surprises me is nobody was injured, I'd have thought the rigger on the ground would have had his hand pretty hosed up. He was holding a cable struck by a rotor blade, how did that not mangle his fingers? Might have let go just before or right as the blade got caught and started to dive out of the way of the helicopter.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m20sZtQZWsw gently caress.
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Wasabi the J posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m20sZtQZWsw I'm super-impressed that the intermodal crane didn't get hosed up in the big blast.
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Bondematt posted:It was the guy on the ground you see tugging at the cable, the pilot was rightfully pissed. I avoid people who lack a basic working understanding of geometry and physics. I knew an Air Force helicopter mechanic who thought you could reduce the weight of a car by hanging its contents from the ceiling with strings.
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Nierbo posted:That actually makes the microscopic pieces of poo shoot out harder and go further than if you left it open. Sucks for you Got a source for this? Or is this just something you heard and latched on to because being mindlessly contrary is what keeps you from slitting your wrists?
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I've read that flushing with the lid closed confines the aerosol to the bowl, and that the next person to open it gets a faceful of poo-vapour, but I guess that depends how long it's left to settle. Really though it's manifestly fine given that we all have flush toilets and haven't died of dysentery.
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http://fox8.com/2015/08/13/sandusky-police-investigating-accident-at-cedar-point-near-raptor/ Don't go into the rollercoaster's restricted area.
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GotLag posted:I've read that flushing with the lid closed confines the aerosol to the bowl, and that the next person to open it gets a faceful of poo-vapour, but I guess that depends how long it's left to settle. It may reduce the total amount of fecal bacteria on your toothbrush, but bad news goons. Your entire house is covered with fecal bacteria. It's unavoidable and not unusual. And if you have a beard, it's teeming with it.
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flosofl posted:And if you have a beard, it's teeming with it. Not actually true. http://now.snopes.com/2015/05/05/beards-poop/
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lol just lol if your toilet is not in a separate building entirely with extensive air filtration, air locks, and cleansing showers that you use after every dump and tinkle you take, enjoy your poo poo air pigs
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pretty frequently at work i'll walk into the bathroom with food and a drink
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Zero One posted:http://fox8.com/2015/08/13/sandusky-police-investigating-accident-at-cedar-point-near-raptor/ I like how they thought it would be helpful to embed a POV video of the ride in question. Also, the Raptor is still the best roller coaster. Fight me IRL. Edit: Linked in that article - http://fox8.com/2015/06/22/cedar-point-injury-leaves-man-with-leg-full-of-stitches/ An entrance gate closed on a guy's leg a month and a half ago and required him to get a bunch of stitches and unlike the dead guy it (probably) wasn't his fault. The Raptor is out for blood this year. Cat Hatter fucked around with this message at 05:08 on Aug 14, 2015 |
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Last time I was at Cedar Point a ride attendant closed a restraint directly on my blind friend's cane, snapping it. They replaced the cane and gave us a bunch of line-skipping passes to let us use the back entrance to the rides (also known as the exit). Best theme park incompetence ever.
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DAD LOST MY IPOD posted:Last time I was at Cedar Point a ride attendant closed a restraint directly on my blind friend's cane, snapping it. They replaced the cane and gave us a bunch of line-skipping passes to let us use the back entrance to the rides (also known as the exit). Best theme park incompetence ever. Did your blind friend enjoy the roller coasters?
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Haven't encountered too much incompetence that was actually dangerous, though there's tons of coasters out there that are plain uncomfortable or painful to ride. Ninja at Six Flags Over Georgia, for instance, doesn't have shoulder restraints that are actually shaped to the shoulder. Instead of holding my torso in at the front, it simply pushed down hard on the soft inner part of my shoulders where they meet the neck. This was not only painful, it also didn't actually secure me in my seat and I slid left and right on curves and corkscrews. I think the singular most "Oh poo poo" thing that's actually happened on one of my own ride vehicles was at Hersheypark on the Wildcat. As our train was pulling out of the station, some moron kid dribbling a basketball bounced it over the gate and toward the train. Luckily one of the second row passengers hit it back at him. In a similar vein, back at Six Flags Over Georgia, a high school age kid dribbling a ball over the queue railing had it bounce across the Hansen Car track and wedge itself in the railing behind the parked cars (which is the only thing that kept it from rolling down a steep hill and onto the train tracks). He promptly leaped the railing and ran across the track to get his ball. Amazingly, the ride attendants didn't give a single gently caress and just stared in amazement at how boneheaded and ballsy the teen was. Almost immediately after this, another kid began dribbling his own basketball over the railing and dropped it. Thankfully it just bounced off the rail back at him. There's also the time on Test Track years ago when our car suddenly stopped toward the end of the switchback section and we smelled burning rubber. I think a wheel got stuck or something, which tripped a ride shutdown. We had an attendant walk us into the fake trees surrounding the track to a hidden stairway that led us through the employee hallways and break areas of the ride to the exit. chitoryu12 fucked around with this message at 05:47 on Aug 14, 2015 |
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flosofl posted:It may reduce the total amount of fecal bacteria on your toothbrush, but bad news goons. Your entire house is covered with fecal bacteria. It's unavoidable and not unusual. Even worse, I hear at this very moment your body is full of poo
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Tunicate posted:Even worse, I hear at this very moment your body is full of poo First a skeleton, now this? Fuuuuuuuuuuhck.
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Cat Hatter posted:I like how they thought it would be helpful to embed a POV video of the ride in question. I agree with you on it being the best coaster. I wonder if he got hit by a metal bit or where it's a dangly leg ride he got his head kicked?
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LSD CURES JUNKIES posted:I agree with you on it being the best coaster. I wonder if he got hit by a metal bit or where it's a dangly leg ride he got his head kicked? They said in the video that the train itself hit him, but about 50 seconds in they show cones (presumably marking where he was found) right under a level section of track so I'm guessing either the train threw him a bit or someone lifted their legs so the seat could hit him.
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same poo poo happened in 2008 when some kid walked under the batman ride at six flags georgia and promptly had her head taken off and in 2002 when a groundskeeper had his head kicked off by a passenger wow, never go to six flags https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incidents_at_Six_Flags_parks
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Dillbag posted:same poo poo happened in 2008 when some kid walked under the batman ride at six flags georgia and promptly had her head taken off A better rule would be "Never go to Six Flags if you're the kind of person to leap fences and run around moving inverted coasters." Actually, just stay inside. Forever.
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Going straight to hell with this post...  ICE CREAM!  Lieutenant Dan!
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Dillbag posted:same poo poo happened in 2008 when some kid walked under the batman ride at six flags georgia and promptly had her head taken off For those who haven't been to the middle of Ohio, the Raptor is basically the Batman ride but a bit taller with an extra inversion and green. Here, have Daniel Tosh recount a similar (possibly fabricated) story since there are so many people who can't figure out that fences aren't an invitation to run around under a roller coaster: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kR6VhtGiQUc&t=77s Edit: I say "possibly fabricated" because wikipedia makes it seem like he mixed two incidents together from Batman at Six Flags Over Georgia. One had a 17 year old killed retrieving a hat (or trying to touch the train or cutting back into the park after lunch) but without injuring anyone on the ride; the other was where a 14 year old girl's leg collided with a foreman (OSHA) and killed him/broke her leg. Cat Hatter fucked around with this message at 08:22 on Aug 14, 2015 |
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Zero One posted:http://fox8.com/2015/08/13/sandusky-police-investigating-accident-at-cedar-point-near-raptor/ So, a guy was killed by a raptor after entering a restricted enclosure in a theme park? I think I've seen a movie about this. Anyway, rollercoaster talk reminded me of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnPlwDle8KI What happened was that the coaster train had gotten stuck on top of the lift hill. So they sent a few mechanics up, who were manually disengaging the restraint locks one by one and getting the people out. But they started at the back, and then gravity happened and the train started rolling forward by itself, while there was someone in there with their shoulder restraints open. Luckily, he had enough clarity of mind to pull it down as the coaster started moving. You can clearly see that part in the video. One person got wounded: the mechanic that was standing on the car jumped onto the scaffold and broke an ankle doing so, I think. Since then, the park changed their emergency procedure, to include placing braking clamps between the wheels of a stuck coaster so it can't start moving. Carbon dioxide fucked around with this message at 08:06 on Aug 14, 2015 |
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There's definitely more than one roller coaster-induced neck breaking or decapitation out there (the latter usually from being hit by the car rather than a foot). Inverted coasters are obviously the riskiest to run under, and the lack of self-preservation is incredible. Speaking of inverted coasters, Dragon Challenge (formerly the Dueling Dragons) at Islands of Adventure ended its famous dueling aspect a few years ago. The ride got its name and reputation for being an excellent inverted coaster that also involved two coasters (Fire and Ice dragons) which would launch simultaneously and snake around each other, including at one point coming head on and pulling up into a loop immediately before impact. It immediately made the ride stand out among its peers and it was very highly regarded. Unfortunately, there were two incidents in 2011 regarding foreign objects flying in someone's eye. To my knowledge these are the only two confirmed incidents (though Universal is notorious among park employees like I once was for keeping all but the most serious incidents out of the media), but one man lost an eye to the damage. Whatever the cause, Universal immediately pulled the plug on the dueling aspect. Now the trains launch apart, still keeping a decently high capacity but lacking what made them so fun. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oh0QPDAhF2M
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Wasabi the J posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m20sZtQZWsw I like how they're in the middle of an explosion and their biggest concern is if they got it recorded for youtube.
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Don't forget the incident with the Mindbender roller coaster in the West Edmonton Mall! The ride manufacturer went bankrupt part-way through its production and the manual wasn't translated very well from German. After hearing a grinding noise but not being able to find the source, operators loaded the cars up and set it off. The train derailed in the middle of a loop-the-loop and the safety bars disengaged, throwing three people to their deaths. http://articles.latimes.com/1986-06-16/news/mn-10861_1_roller-coaster-derails https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mindbender_%28Galaxyland%29#1986_accident https://www.themedicalbag.com/article/the-5-worst-amusement-park-disasters-of-all-time
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Wasabi the J posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m20sZtQZWsw Video seems to be gone now. All the footage of that explosion reminds me of the fireworks explosion in Enschede in the Netherlands, a warehouse containing fireworks caught fire and exploded. The last bang pretty wiped out an entire suburb - 200 houses destroyed in > 100 acres completely destroyed.
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chitoryu12 posted:Dueling Dragons gently caress harry potter for ruining merlin woods plaza and gently caress universal for ruining the dragons
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Wasabi the J posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m20sZtQZWsw Don't spray water on burning *calcium carbide*, kids.
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MageMage posted:I like how they're in the middle of an explosion and their biggest concern is if they got it recorded for youtube. they leave within seconds of the huge explosions. before that they were filming a huge fire from pretty far away, and when it explodes they are all "what...the...gently caress" i doubt anyone here would have reacted differently lol if you'd run out into the street because you saw a big fire a kilometer away
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Wasabi the J posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m20sZtQZWsw I appreciate that among all the horror is a perfectly timed F Bomb at 23 seconds.
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