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Posted on 10/13/26 at 2:16 pm to Big Scrub TX
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Big Scrub TX
Damn, you seem pretty emotionally invested in people continuing to ride roller coasters
Posted on 10/13/26 at 2:17 pm to Big Scrub TX
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Big Scrub TX
Do you have some investment or job related to carnival rides? Or just a big enthusiast?
Posted on 10/13/26 at 2:22 pm to Big Scrub TX
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This incident is a perfect example of how national news is a net negative. An extremely outlying event happens out of millions/billions of iterations and it becomes front page news and starts driving policy and maybe even laws.
I can agree with this in regards to the potential for knee-jerk reactions.
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There's no reason any of us should have even heard about this.
However, this is just unrealistic all the way around.
Posted on 10/13/26 at 2:34 pm to Big Scrub TX
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Fat people are dumb too.
I'm not fat. Roller coasters without multiple restraints are stupid.
This post was edited on 10/13/26 at 2:36 pm
Posted on 10/13/26 at 3:08 pm to Jake88
quote:I wonder if that was the case at 6 flags?
There are people that raise their hips a bit off the seat so when the attendant comes by and they push down on the lap bar it doesn't get tight. They have about 4 inches of gaps that they can get more "air time."
I did not like my airtime. lol
Posted on 10/13/26 at 3:13 pm to Big Scrub TX
quote:Truth.
This incident is a perfect example of how national news is a net negative. An extremely outlying event happens out of millions/billions of iterations and it becomes front page news and starts driving policy and maybe even laws
Posted on 10/13/26 at 3:16 pm to jchamil
quote:I think he's more invested in not having reactionary hysteria ginned up by the media.
Damn, you seem pretty emotionally invested in people continuing to ride roller coasters
Posted on 10/13/26 at 3:21 pm to Big Scrub TX
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Why not? Will you be driving again?
Yes I will. I will also have control of my car. The ability to read other cars and take evasive action if necessary. Multiple safety points and systems to proctect me. Not just a lap bar that counts on my knees or hips not being flexible enough to eject me, which is what the ride wants you to feel.
Also, driving is damn near a neccessity. Riding a poorly designed, maintained, or operated roller coaster isn't.
This post was edited on 10/13/26 at 3:26 pm
Posted on 10/13/26 at 3:27 pm to Hoyt
To add insult to injury. The last 2 pictures of you alive and your arse all hanging out.
Posted on 10/13/26 at 3:39 pm to Thib-a-doe Tiger
quote:Wow. 36,000+ people thought this annually in the US
Yes I will. I will also have control of my car. The ability to read other cars and take evasive action if necessary. Multiple safety points and systems to proctect me. Not just a lap bar that counts on my knees or hips not being flexible enough to eject me, which is what the ride wants you to feel
Posted on 10/13/26 at 3:49 pm to LouisianaLady
I remember as a kid riding the 'Texas Giant' at Six Flags Over Texas with my dad. It had the single metal bar that folded over the top of your thighs. After we reached the top of a climb and went down my arse started to fly out of the seat and forward out of the car.
Haven't ridden a single one since then.
Haven't ridden a single one since then.
This post was edited on 10/13/26 at 3:51 pm
Posted on 10/13/26 at 3:53 pm to CatfishJohn
quote:Enthusiast since early childhood, but basically had to stop riding in the past couple of years.
Do you have some investment or job related to carnival rides? Or just a big enthusiast?
Posted on 10/13/26 at 3:59 pm to Big Scrub TX
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This incident is a perfect example of how national news is a net negative. An extremely outlying event happens out of millions/billions of iterations and it becomes front page news and starts driving policy and maybe even laws.
There's no reason any of us should have even heard about this.
Now do the Cornell gangbang, the Lindsay Clancy case, or any other national news you and your fellow leftist commie scum rage over
Posted on 10/13/26 at 3:59 pm to Big Scrub TX
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but basically had to stop riding in the past couple of years.
Why? Chances of whatever reason you had to quit riding killing you are low
Posted on 10/13/26 at 4:01 pm to LegendInMyMind
quote:I didn't say it was realistic to not be in the news. But I AM saying that supposedly college educated people should be able to avoid the emotional response here.
However, this is just unrealistic all the way around.
We constantly complain about "you can't hate the media enough", but then run like guppies to feed on these stories of massively outlying events that likely tell you nothing about risk - other than to underscore how truly safe these rides are.
We claim to understand math, then we extrapolate massively outlying events into forward expectations that are unrealistic.
Who knows how accurate this is, but I ran some of the stats through AI and it says for truly external deaths (i.e. excluding people with like heart conditions who ride anyway), the risk of dying is 1 in 273 million. I would submit that one's proud reaction to that should never be "you won't get ME anywhere near those rides!!!!".
This post was edited on 10/13/26 at 4:06 pm
Posted on 10/13/26 at 4:02 pm to Thib-a-doe Tiger
quote:You have the illusion of control, not actual control. And all the auto statistics are NET of "multiple safety points and systems"
Yes I will. I will also have control of my car. The ability to read other cars and take evasive action if necessary. Multiple safety points and systems to proctect me. Not just a lap bar that counts on my knees or hips not being flexible enough to eject me, which is what the ride wants you to feel.
quote:Perhaps. But living life and having fun is a necessity too. And if galactically remote odds of any activity scare you off, then you're going to miss an awful lot of life.
Also, driving is damn near a neccessity. Riding a poorly designed, maintained, or operated roller coaster isn't.
This post was edited on 10/13/26 at 4:06 pm
Posted on 10/13/26 at 4:04 pm to Bourre
quote:You must be thinking of someone else. I have said the EXACT same thing about that stupid incident as well. There's no reason whatsoever that we should all know about it - even if it HAD been a gang rape. And yet we do. And now it's an international news story that will most certainly impact policies and elections - and possibly even laws.
Now do the Cornell gangbang, the Lindsay Clancy case, or any other national news you and your fellow leftist commie scum rage over
The reaction of some of you in this thread would be "I'm never going to college" because of one story.
Posted on 10/13/26 at 4:05 pm to Big Scrub TX
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Perhaps. But living life and having fun is a necessity too. And if galactically remote odds of any activity scare you off, then you're going to miss an awful lot of life.
Dead is dead and it ain't no different than walking around if you ain't living
Living in fear's just another way of dying before your time
Drive-by Truckers, from Shut Up and Get on the Plane
Posted on 10/13/26 at 4:05 pm to Thib-a-doe Tiger
quote:As I've gotten older, my vertigo seems much more easily triggered. It's a huge bummer.
Why?
quote:/Which is why I'm not even slightly afraid of dying on a roller coaster.
Chances of whatever reason you had to quit riding killing you are low
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