Girl dies on carnival Sizzler in Austin

How the heck do you fall off a Sizzler? The bars are locked and only the operators can unlock them with a pin!

There are several possible scenerios, none of which I'm going into. Just not enough information at this time. I've never been overly impressed with any of the Sizzlers I've seen, not to mention several other of the Wisdom built rides.

I can say honestly that there is good reason why this is one ride I do not ride at any event. Not once have I had a positive experience, and most of the time I ended up with bruises or back problems. It seems to me that with all the trouble with these rides in the last couple of years that Wisdom would be under a lot of heat along with the operators. As well, I guess rider safety is not as important to the operators as the lower cost to maintain and transport this ride vs. the Eli Bridge Scrambler. Just my two cents...

It was nice to see a newscast where the reporter wasn't ripping the carnival apart for a change. That seemed to be one of the tamer newscasts on such an event I've ever seen. But man...I just can't figure this one out. My heart goes out to her family and friends though. Yikes.

wth jeff. I submmited this. I must not have done it right. Where are we supposed to put the URL and why do you want us to copy the entire text from the story?

And PKI... Actualy you can get yourslef out of some of the models. I've done it while the ride was stoped. There is a little black ball all you have to do is shift it.

*** This post was edited by Keith2005 12/21/2005 7:09:44 PM ***

There was more than one submission.

So I was watching the news this morning. Aprrantley the girl "Slipped through the safety bars" falling to her death.

The bottom line is, I don't think anybody knows just yet quite how she managed to do it. The best intelligence I have at this time (and my sources are the same as yours) is that they didn't find anything wrong with the ride, with the caveat that it was a preliminary finding.

--Dave Althoff, Jr.
*** This post was edited by RideMan 12/22/2005 12:22:50 PM ***

Again, was watching the news. The family is sueing Crabtree Amusements for "negligence". Also they are trying to get a restaraing order so they ride cannot be touched until lawyers have completed an inspection.

Seems like to much... Accidents happen.

Well, if I'm reading the news reports correctly Crabtree has already slaughed and gone to winter quarters, so it already has been "touched".

Accidents don't just happen. With very few exceptions (being hit by a meteorite) they have causes. By determining these causes and acting on them, we can prevent the vast majority for future accidents.