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Zywiec
2010-07-31 02:24:06 PM
"Deceleration" is not a word.
 
RyGiL
2010-07-31 02:25:33 PM
Extreme World is extreme.
 
AbbeySomeone
2010-07-31 02:27:35 PM
Freee fallin'

It would be complete irony if Tom Petty was blaring in the background.
 
Toshiro Mifune's Letter Opener [TotalFark]
2010-07-31 02:31:17 PM
It's not the fall that hurts, it's the high ticket prices.
 
Owangotang
2010-07-31 02:32:22 PM
You could do a lot worse than dying while on some awesome ride while in the Wisconsin Dells.
 
Nakito
2010-07-31 02:35:19 PM
Ah, traveling carnivals. Where the rides are assembled, repaired, and operated by ... carnies.
 
CraicBaby
2010-07-31 02:36:17 PM
Zywiec: "Deceleration" is not a word.

According to the internets, it's a perfectly cromulent word.
 
dr_iacovone
2010-07-31 02:36:40 PM
Zywiec: "Deceleration" is not a word.

Unpossible.


when a safety net under a "free fall" attraction failed to catch her.

Was it on its break?
 
baronvonflapjack [TotalFark]
2010-07-31 02:36:56 PM
Fattie.

/Bungie jumped for the first time at this place years ago
 
CraicBaby
2010-07-31 02:37:32 PM
Nakito: Ah, traveling carnivals. Where the rides are assembled, repaired, and operated by ... carnies.

I guess you didn't read TFA. It was at an amusement park, not a traveling carnival.
 
rcain
2010-07-31 02:37:46 PM
If it's not the Chinese and their lead poisoning it's the damn carnies and their cement poisoning.
 
PeppaJack
2010-07-31 02:41:32 PM
This is one of those times a lawsuit seems justified.
 
Nakito
2010-07-31 02:41:52 PM
CraicBaby: I guess you didn't read TFA.

That was an astute guess, my friend.

Ah, non-traveling, fixed-based carnivals. Where the rides are assembled, repaired, and operated by ... carnies who are your neighbors.
 
tccomp
2010-07-31 02:43:31 PM
I wonder how much she weighed?
 
kidsizedcoffin
2010-07-31 02:45:22 PM
a.imageshack.us

The story needs a few more variables to solve for F.
 
manofmanyhats
2010-07-31 02:49:59 PM
Carnies,you know. Circus folk.Smell like cabbage. Very small hands.
 
farkedInTheHead
2010-07-31 02:50:10 PM
kidsizedcoffin: The story needs a few more variables to solve for F.

Is there a t-shirt version of that somewhere?
 
flamingboard
2010-07-31 02:50:47 PM
why couldn't it have been bert the conqueror? won't somebody think of the children?
 
Evil Mackerel
2010-07-31 02:50:54 PM
Some kids learn the ropes the hard way.
 
kidsizedcoffin
2010-07-31 02:54:40 PM
farkedInTheHead: kidsizedcoffin: The story needs a few more variables to solve for F.

Is there a t-shirt version of that somewhere?

It wouldn't surprise me, but hell if I know where.
 
indylaw
2010-07-31 02:57:34 PM
Zywiec: "Deceleration" is not a word.

Maybe not in Polish, or whatever vowel-less garble you speak.
 
I Am The Egg Matt Drudge Smears Upon His Body
2010-07-31 02:58:10 PM
Zywiec: "Deceleration" is not a word.

Irregardless, the word seems appropriate in this circumstance.
 
scotto
2010-07-31 02:59:10 PM
Okay, I have to take issue with the idiotic wording in that article.

FTA: "A 12-year-old girl at an amusement park plunged more than 40 feet to the ground on Friday, seriously injuring herself when a safety net under a "free fall" attraction failed to catch her."

Did she cause the fall? That's what that sentence implies. But no, the net failed to catch her.

That's just shiatty writing. DO YOU HEAR ME, RYAN J. FOLEY??? shiatTY WRITING, I SAY!
 
Chester J. Lampwick
2010-07-31 03:01:25 PM
scotto: Okay, I have to take issue with the idiotic wording in that article.

FTA: "A 12-year-old girl at an amusement park plunged more than 40 feet to the ground on Friday, seriously injuring herself when a safety net under a "free fall" attraction failed to catch her."

Did she cause the fall? That's what that sentence implies. But no, the net failed to catch her.

That's just shiatty writing. DO YOU HEAR ME, RYAN J. FOLEY??? shiatTY WRITING, I SAY!

Came her to say this. If I hit my thumb with a hammer, I've injured myself. I don't "injure myself" when an amusement park ride malfunctions.
 
eagles95
2010-07-31 03:02:03 PM
baronvonflapjack: Fattie.

/Bungie jumped for the first time at this place years ago

Same here....co worker just did this ride 2 weeks ago. She's kinda freaked out right now that she could have splattered all over the parking lot.

/Noah's Ark still the best damn water park there
 
Guma
2010-07-31 03:04:33 PM
they should have renamed it Sudden Impact
 
Toshiro Mifune's Letter Opener [TotalFark]
2010-07-31 03:08:24 PM
Guma: they should have renamed it Sudden Impact

If there were any justice, there would be an amusement park where all the rides are named after Clint Eastwood movies.

"Damn... did you SEE the lines for Escape From Alcatraz?"

"That's nothing. I nearly broke my neck on Every Which Way But Loose."
 
Zywiec
2010-07-31 03:08:42 PM
Acceleration is the change of velocity over time. My high school physics teacher was quite exacting in making sure that we knew that deceleration isn't a proper term, even if accepted by the masses.
 
pestluvr
2010-07-31 03:11:24 PM
Zywiec: "Deceleration" is not a word.

sharminator.files.wordpress.com
Would beg to differ. Ya know, if he wasn't dead from sudden deceleration syndrome.
 
scotto
2010-07-31 03:11:30 PM
Zywiec: Acceleration is the change of velocity over time. My high school physics teacher was quite exacting in making sure that we knew that deceleration isn't a proper term in physics, even if accepted by the masses perfectly acceptable in everyday conversation.

FTFY, nerdly princess.
 
FirstNationalBastard [TotalFark]
2010-07-31 03:13:14 PM
Hm. I thought this was going to be an article about that Dale Earnhardt Intimidator ride.
 
Guma
2010-07-31 03:18:55 PM
Toshiro Mifune's Letter Opener: Guma: they should have renamed it Sudden Impact
If there were any justice, there would be an amusement park where all the rides are named after Clint Eastwood movies.

So true:

Space Cowboys (fly on a rocket coaster)
A Perfect World (a children's ride with an extremely annoying song)
The Gauntlet (a fun house with interactive obstacles)
For Some Dollars More (the gift shop)
 
I Am The Egg Matt Drudge Smears Upon His Body
2010-07-31 03:21:33 PM
Toshiro Mifune's Letter Opener: Guma: they should have renamed it Sudden Impact

If there were any justice, there would be an amusement park where all the rides are named after Clint Eastwood movies.

"Damn... did you SEE the lines for Escape From Alcatraz?"

"That's nothing. I nearly broke my neck on Every Which Way But Loose."

I'd recommend staying away from the "Dirty Harry", though.
 
Jimbo-slam
2010-07-31 03:22:57 PM
CraicBaby
Zywiec: "Deceleration" is not a word.

According to the internets, it's a perfectly cromulent word.


Hee hee. Thanks Bart.
 
hjy6 [TotalFark]
2010-07-31 03:23:02 PM
Extreme World in Wisconsin Dells to be sold at foreclosure sale


Extreme World, where a 12-year-old girl was severely injured on a free fall ride Friday, is up for foreclosure sale.
Extreme World, which bills itself as "the largest extreme sports park of its kind in the Midwest," is scheduled to be sold at a Sept. 7 Sauk County Sheriff's sale.
The court ruled in favor of the Bank of Wisconsin Dells, the plaintiff, at the end of May. The defendants in the case, which was filed in December, were Anderson Amusements LLC, Extreme World Inc., Big Chief Enterprises Inc., the state of Wisconsin and the U.S.
The judgement of foreclosure against Anderson Amusements LLC and Extreme World Inc., was $2,742,973.03, according to court records.
The three parcels listed in the case are assessed at $2,060,800 with improvements, according to Sauk County's online land information program, SOARING.
Anderson also owes $82,076.74 in delinquent taxes on the three Anderson Amusement parcels at 1800 and 1810 Wisconsin Dells Parkway, according to SOARING.
Extreme World Owner Bill Anderson declined to comment on the foreclosure.
The bank's attorney also declined to comment.
 
Toshiro Mifune's Letter Opener [TotalFark]
2010-07-31 03:23:38 PM
Guma: So true:

Space Cowboys (fly on a rocket coaster)
A Perfect World (a children's ride with an extremely annoying song)
The Gauntlet (a fun house with interactive obstacles)
For Some Dollars More (the gift shop)

Hah! I like all that, aye...

But let's not forget the concession stand that specializes in hoagies: Kelly's Heroes.
 
Toshiro Mifune's Letter Opener [TotalFark]
2010-07-31 03:25:01 PM
I Am The Egg Matt Drudge Smears Upon His Body: I'd recommend staying away from the "Dirty Harry", though.

Or the Bronco Billy, for that matter.

:-/


Still, it's all worth it for the Midnight Fireworks in the Garden of Good and Evil.
 
Mad Mark
2010-07-31 03:31:18 PM
I'm trying to understand how this ride works. From the description in the article it sounds like you free fall through a tube and caught by a big net. Any Farkers/Farkettes care to elaborate?
/puzzled in Missouri
 
santadog [TotalFark]
2010-07-31 03:33:20 PM
Zywiec: "Deceleration" is not a word.

Sure it is... and I thought I made it up.
I rent scooters out and always say, "twist the throttle toward you to accelerate, and away from you to "decelerate".

/come on.. work with me.
//not submitter
///no one has tried to correct me after 5 summers of it.
 
ds_4815
2010-07-31 03:38:41 PM
Mad Mark: I'm trying to understand how this ride works. From the description in the article it sounds like you free fall through a tube and caught by a big net. Any Farkers/Farkettes care to elaborate?
/puzzled in Missouri

You're essentially brought up in an elevator and hooked up to a harness (temporarily). You dangle over this hole in the catwalk and pull a cord, during which you freefall into a net which then lowers you to the ground.

As I understand it, the net wasn't properly raised up after a previous fall. There were supposed to be fixes to this in other models of its type (something like having the elevator synced up to the net-raising so they're not individual processes), but it looks like this didn't take.

It's called a SCAD Tower, and here's a video (new window).

/Your friendly neighborhood attraction nerd
 
KeeptheChief
2010-07-31 03:41:41 PM
Zywiec: "Deceleration" is not a word.

deceleration is a word you douche bag (pops)
 
ds_4815
2010-07-31 03:42:13 PM
Wait, I found a much more entertaining version here.
 
hjy6 [TotalFark]
2010-07-31 03:44:10 PM
the ride

TERMINAL VELOCITY (new window)
 
gretzkyscores
2010-07-31 03:47:55 PM
On a not-really-related note, if any of you have a fetish for barely legal Russian immigrants, you really should head for Wisconsin Dells. I was just there last month, and it seemed like everywhere we went, there was nothing but hot girls with eastern-block accents working. I actually started to wonder a bit if the Russian mob maybe bought the Dells as a way to launder money....?
 
hjy6 [TotalFark]
2010-07-31 03:48:04 PM
During a trip to Extreme World last fall, Bert Kreischer, host of the Travel Channel's "Bert the Conqueror," joked with Anderson during filming and asked him, "Have you ever had an accident at the park?"
Anderson shook his head no, and without missing a beat Kreischer said, "So what you're saying is you're due."
That show aired for the first time July 21.


OOF
 
JRoo
2010-07-31 03:50:03 PM
"the net mechanism that was supposed to catch her and break her fall was not high enough above the ground to completely break the fall and she did hit the ground,"

She sounds fat.
 
speciaal
2010-07-31 03:51:18 PM
Deceleration is a word; it is not a physics concept, however. Its a synonym for slowing down, however, that in and of itself is acceleration in a different direction than the current velocity.

/Physics major
//English minor
///Starbucks is calling, brb
 
KeeptheChief
2010-07-31 03:54:39 PM
Airfoilsguy:

"bag" is not a word

My mistake, thanks.
 
Reverend J
2010-07-31 04:01:07 PM
Reminds me of a story my friend for the 82nd Airborn told me. He was getting ready for his jump and his drill sergeant was asking everyone "If you're main chute fails to open how much time do you have to get the backup chute open?" All the guys gave answers like 10 seconds to 30 seconds, and finally he said, with a smirk, "Wrong, the rest of your life"

/I know, cool story bah!
 
hjy6 [TotalFark]
2010-07-31 04:03:43 PM
I hope she makes it

"I head a mom screaming and I looked down and there was a little girl on the ground and the mom was saying, 'Please don't let my baby die, please don't let my baby die,'" Norys said.
Norys and the girl's father immediately started performing CPR on her.
"We just did it until the ambulance came, but she was already bleeding from everywhere. It wasn't enough," she said.
 
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