Cartoon Man posted:

DelphiAegis posted:

This kills the crab car

Edit: Carnies are cheating:

https://i.imgur.com/sQBBlWi.mp4

Bloody Hedgehog posted:

They have found some interesting items, which point to unexpected settlers and goings on. Not some massive treasure, but at this point it hardly matters. They show is quite popular, so now Discovery is basically bankrolling the entire dig, so they are making profit at this point.

It's gone from digging to maybe find money, to digging for entertainment and getting a paycheck to do it.

Sagebrush posted:

When I was a kid I had a book about all the ~unsolved mysteries~ type stuff (it was the 90s and people were really into that for some reason?) and Oak Island got a couple of chapters to itself. One thing that made me suspicious even as a child was that the treasure hunters kept insisting there must be something manmade down there because they kept finding layers of wood and clay and plant fibers -- those having been placed by the pirates as barriers to digging or something. But having dug holes in the beach before, as children do, I knew that pretty much anywhere you dug you would regularly find wood and clay and old rotten plant fibers. It's the nature of a beach.

Sure enough, scientists these days say that the layered "platforms" of wood are most likely from periodic bad hurricanes knocking down a bunch of trees and plants, which got buried in the sand and gradually compacted over the years.

Bloody Hedgehog posted:

they're all "they dug this 300 foot vertical shaft, and then layered it with horizontal shafts that go out to the ocean so they could flood the thing if security devices were tripped".

haveblue posted:

https://www.nydailynews.com/new-yor...?outputType=amp

Sagebrush posted:

with 18th century technology, of course. somehow the pirates in 1785 buried a treasure chest hundreds of feet under the beach and constructed all these slant-drilled tunnels and underground trap doors and today we need heavy drilling equipment and steel well casings and continuous pumping to get down to...well, still not as deep as the pirates did apparently

Zero One posted:

I worked at Cedar Point for five years as a ride supervisor. I've ridden Millennium Force dozens of times in a row on cold fall mornings as living dead weight... We almost didn't make it around a few times. I've been working the platform when guests got stuck at the top of Dragster. I climbed the stairs to the top of Raptor without a safety harness.

I would keep riding those rides. They are perfectly safe.

So understand when I say this it comes from a professional: Do not ride carnival rides.

Zero One posted:

Keep in mind I worked there over ten years ago. Looking back at it now Cedar Point wasn't a great company to work for. The pay was low, the hours were long, and the employee housing was awful. But I still loved it and kept going back every summer while I was in college. For employees it was more like a summer camp than a job. A summer camp for young adults with lots of booze and sex.

As far as safety Cedar Point really did care about that. At least for their guests. The rides were inspected nightly and as employees we were well tuned to our rides and if something wasn't right we could close it. The worst thing that happened in my time there was when Magnum slipped through its brakes while empty (it was raining) and two trains bumped. After that they stopped running almost any ride in any sort of rain just in case.

Safety for the employees was a little looser. There was the general risk of giving hungover kids the keys to giant industrial machines: We would get too close to moving rides than we should or ride them ourselves with less than full restraints. There were also quite a few OSHA issues. Fall protection was limited and lock-out tag-out didn't exist until my last year working there.

Overall I don't worry about my safety visiting any fixed amusement park, Cedar Point least of all.

PS: Mean Streak is dead. Long live Steel Vengeance https://www.cedarpoint.com/play/rides/steel-vengeance

Zero One posted:

When a teenager was killed by Batman: The Ride at Six Flags Over Georgia, the ride was closed for weeks (maybe months??) and Six Flags installed new warning signs on ride fences across all their parks.

When someone was similarly killed last summer by Raptor at Cedar Point, it reopened the next day with no changes.

Now... are there any changes that would have prevented an idiot from climbing a fence into an obviously dangerous area? Probably not. But Cedar Point (for all its gloating about safety) has a poor safety record.

When I worked there (a decade ago) there was no lock-out/tag-out for the rides. It was fully up to the college kids running them to make sure no one was working on the ride or in a low zone before operating it. One year I worked on this thing which as part of the opening procedures we had to walk up the bobsled track to inspect it. Nothing prevented someone from starting the ride while we were in the path of the cars.

Employees were also expected to climb to the top of these coasters with no safety tie off (Magnum at 200ft had the tallest lift walk. MF and Dragster have no stairs).

I saw maintenance start this ride (which instantly accelerates the train up to 72 MPH) while rides employees were inside the restricted area.

Ride employees also had full access to the maintenance mode of the rides. Other parks might restrict such a thing but at Cedar Point it would be too much work to have maintenance crews come out for every little issue. It was fairly common for two trains on Dragster to "bump" when the hosts were trying to open or close the ride. Or even when restarting from downtime. But I'll also partially blame the manufacturer for that one. Come on, Intamin! Who the hell builds a $25 million ride that requires employees to manually flip switches on the drive tires to move trains around?!

OSHA finally fined them and they added lock-out/tag-out around 2010. I'm pretty sure lift walks are unchanged, however.

There was also the Magnum accident which the park blamed on rain but was well known by employees to have been caused by maintenance incorrectly adjusting the brake system. Fun Fact! This is why to this day all the rides at Cedar Point close when it starts raining (no lightning). Even ones that have magnetic brakes.

Wildcat had a history of accidents too before it had a repeat of the 2008 rollback before the 2012 season started and they closed it for good.

Finally, don't forget Shoot-The-Rapids which was torn down this year after only 5-ish years of operation. It not only couldn't run boats at full capacity due to poor engineering (Intamin strikes again) but also suffered a lift rollback which injured riders in 2013.

Kenning posted:

Holy gently caress

Cat Hatter posted:

In contrast, I watched half an episode of those dudes searching for Hitler and can't imagine it taking more than 3 episodes to either find him or exhaust all their theories and go home.

senrath posted:

They managed to squeeze 3 seasons and a 2 hour special out of that crap.

shame on an IGA posted:

Couple years ago somebody a few blocks down from me died in a fireworks battle trying to launch a mortar shell off his sternum and dropping it in the tube backwards.

Three hours later, someone else from the same apartment complex did it again.

Mierenneuker posted:

I do enjoy this little trip into the UK.

https://twitter.com/ScarredForLife2/status/1419954481236688910
(features music)

ReelBigLizard posted:

The UK gammons go on about Parents These Days being super protective and not letting little Tarquin outside without at least three minders and a risk assessment, but all of my generation grew up seeing this horror show poo poo on TV and even at school in addition to prime time accident porn shows like Casualty and 999 where in one episode they featured the real story of a kid who got a loving javelin entirely through his neck during school sports.

chitoryu12 posted:

Yeah, tannerite has seem little to no use in terrorism because it requires the massive impulse of a rifle bullet to detonate even after being mixed. If you want to build a bomb to kill people, you've got much easier options like black powder in a pressure cooker. All of the accidents that happen with it are people overstuffing a target, standing too close, and getting hit with shrapnel. Or starting wildfires with a gender reveal party.

Otteration posted:

Don't watch anything involving Oak Island, Ancient Aliens, or Skin walker ranch. Please just don't. Please.

Mierenneuker posted:

I do enjoy this little trip into the UK.

https://twitter.com/ScarredForLife2/status/1419954481236688910
(features music)

LimaBiker posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lN0mh2dnyrg&t=555s

Spinning potato peeler blades. Lowering an inspector into a fresly drilled hole for concrete pilings to see if the bell bottom shape footing is dug out well enough. Jesus gently caress aaaaaaah. I'd be scared shitless of the hole caving in.
It's like colin furze, but in the 1960s and arguably more unsafe.

Also, the next sentence: 'The next stage is to fill the hole with concrete, having first removed the inspector'. Lol.

EDIT: aaah, they use lining sleeves. Phew.

Otteration posted:

Don't watch anything involving Oak Island, Ancient Aliens, or Skin walker ranch. Please just don't. Please.

PinheadSlim posted:

You see it here in the US too. Everyone was taught that any stranger talking to them for any reason was probably going to kidnap and/or violate and/or physically harm them and now just about everyone in the county has social anxiety.

Cojawfee posted:

People wonder why millennials won't answer the phone or the door. I'm not getting kidnapped or murdered.