Six Flags amazes us once again

[6souls]

Girl's feet severed on ride at Six Flags in Kentucky
10:36 p.m. EDT, June 21, 2007

http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/2007/US/06/21...y.six.wlky.jpg

(CNN) -- A girl's feet were cut off Thursday when a free-fall thrill ride malfunctioned at the Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom Amusement Park in Louisville, Kentucky, police said.

A cord wrapped around the 16-year-old's feet and severed them at her ankles while she was on the "Superman Tower of Power," a police dispatcher said. The girl was taken to a local hospital.

"That could have been all of us -- riding that ride," Whitney Sandfer, who witnessed the accident, told CNN affiliate WDRB/WMYO.

The incident took place shortly before 5 p.m. ET, according to Six Flags spokeswoman Wendy Goldberg. The park remained open, but the ride in question was shut down and will remain so until the full investigation is complete, Goldberg said.

During the ride, passengers are lifted to 177 feet, suspended momentarily and then dropped, according to the park's Web site.

Passengers drop 154 feet at 54 mph, stopping "just 20 terrifying feet above the pavement," it adds.

"I seen the car go up. Then, like, the cable broke, I heard -- pwchh -- and I heard a lot of people screaming," Chris Stinnett, who was at a ride next to the Superman Tower of Power, told WDRB/WMYO.

"The cable went under the car -- and I seen it pull up and hit a lot of people -- and I seen them bring their legs up," Stinnett said.

The ride was introduced in 1995.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/06/21/six.fl ... index.html

[Priran]

I lol'd

[Demosthenes]

I SEEN!

[Huggo]

That's not the superman ride I know. I shall call it the Bizarro Superman Ride. Which obviously makes it evil since it hacked of a girl's feet.

[finale23]

that's ganna be at least 2 million dollar payout, and my sympathy with the girl

[Ivve]

Fuck fuck fuck. One of my biggest fears is losing a limb, so I guess I should add "visit six flags" to my list of shit I cannot do because it is likely to end in amputation.

[6souls]

The ride used to be called the Hellavator, but was recently changed to it's current title.

[Headspace]

I live really close to that park.

Really sucks.

[Maguspk]

That's gotta suck lol.

Imagine what the people in line thought when the ride stopped and her feet went flying off with a long cord and blood started spurting onto the ground.

[Deejay]

that's ganna be at least 2 million dollar payout, and my sympathy with the girl

2 million? lmao, my cousin got 4 MILLION because a doctor pulled him out the wrong way during birth, and broke is arm. This is EASILY double that.

[Ivve]

I wonder if they were able to reattach the feet. Sometimes they can fix those things back on.

[Remyo]

That's gotta suck lol.

Imagine what the people in line thought when the ride stopped and her feet went flying off with a long cord and blood started spurting onto the ground.

Imagine how relieved the people next to her felt when they found out they didn't get hurt.


any pictures of the victim?

^depends on how much nerve damage I think, it was probably a nasty wound with it being a cable and all. I remember my dad telling me about this guy he worked with, they were using a crane and one of it cables broke and cut the guy in half.

[Maguspk]

I wonder if they were able to reattach the feet. Sometimes they can fix those things back on.

Industrial sized wire + Force of drop on the released rope + Feet being ripped off.

I don't think the feet were even close to intact after that ordeal, and by intact I mean, after being detached they probably were destroyed upon impact on whatever they hit.

[finale23]

I wonder if they were able to reattach the feet. Sometimes they can fix those things back on.

i doubt it

that's ganna be at least 2 million dollar payout, and my sympathy with the girl

2 million? lmao, my cousin got 4 MILLION because a doctor pulled him out the wrong way during birth, and broke is arm. This is EASILY double that.

that's grotesquely excessive. only in america

[sephir]

its amazing how much people are getting off these malpractice lawsuits. My Uncle is a doctor in the US and he got sued for $500 because when he went ot draw some blood for a test it bruised the skin. (for those that give blood, this happens ALOT often when needles go into veins.)

[Remyo]

We have the technology
We can rebuild her...

http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/200...05_468x277.jpg

http://www.lindsaywagner.co.uk/image...0woman%203.jpg


shanananana

[Metah]

im in ur ride
sufferin a terrible fate

[finale23]

im in ur ride
defeeting ur chicks

fixed.



/stole from fark, so wrong

[Cheerios]

They can re-attach people's feet, and still have them work.

[Khamsin]

I wonder if they were able to reattach the feet. Sometimes they can fix those things back on.

I wonder if her friend came up to her afterward, handed her feet to her and said "That's yours."