New Jersey amusement park injuries at a historic low

I can't keep a straight face when I hear about "higher gasoline prices" in the US.

Well, they are higher. They may not be high, but they're higher.

Isn't this the type of article that gets published just before a major accident?

DaveStroem said:
Isn't this the type of article that gets published just before a major accident?

Well, the NJ State Fair at the Meadowlands does open next month..

Well, we always have Jersey to thank for hideous bright orange restraints ;)

Yea makes me not want to ride the Zipper at the Carnival this year.

But if you've ridden the Zipper at the carnival before and didn't have an accident, then you never will.

[Now you had to know that was coming!]

[url][url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non_sequitur_(logic)

Your link doesn't work correctly, Billb. Seriously? Let me fix that link for you...

Non sequitur

JOz99 said:
But if you've ridden the Zipper at the carnival before and didn't have an accident, then you never will.

[Now you had to know that was coming!]

I didn't see it coming, because it does't make any sense..... you're reversing Lost Kause and Lost Effect.

Where is Edward Markey now :)

Probably out there bragging that all his outspokenness on the issue had something to do with it.

DaveStroem said:
Isn't this the type of article that gets published just before a major accident?

Well Dave called it.
http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/06/03/ferris.wheel.death/

This is my favorite Ferris wheel I have ever ridden. It is the largest one I have been on and the view is spectacular.

Such a shame. The cause of the little girl's fall is unknown.

I just submitted that story (from Reuters) to news. It is ironic.

Is this wheel the kind with gondolas (like Coney Island's Wonder Wheel) or the kind with totally exposed seats (like most smaller carnival wheels)?

I suspect with it being that tall, it is the kind with gondolas, in which case I must ask, how in the crap does someone fall from a ride with gondolas?

Morey's Giant Wheel is the kind with the Gondolas.

http://media.nj.com/route_45/photo/ghostship3jpg-c2e3a5d0af07d7d3.jpg

There was some speculation on another board I go to, run by someone who works for Morey that she was leaning out to talk to her friends in a different car, as she was in a car by herself. Take it with a grain of salt though.

But really, sans a mechanical failure, you're really not going to fall out of a ferris wheel if you're just sitting there.

Terribly sad though : (

I guess that I forgot to add that this is very sad.

When I heard about this I got a chill because of my comment above.

I too have ridden this wheel and can't see how anyone could fall out if they were sitting down or not leaning out. Having meet Jack Morey and many of his team, I know that they are also in pain and shock about this accident.