Rita broke my wrists!

Well not mine personally but...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/staffordshire/4088060.stm

Can you say "compensation?"

-Jimvy! (and I thought I had weak wrists) ;)

I betcha Liberace would have been decapitated!

The Flying Turns makes all the right people wet - Gonch

Hmm, good thing she didn't spill coffee on her crotch. ;-)

What I want to know is WHAT the heck was she doing with her hands during launch? :-)

-Tina

LOL!

Tina - the force of the launch threw her arms back off of the lap bar don'tcha know :D

-Jimvy!

Especially with both wrists being broken. She would have lost her hands on TTD.

"Never wave to someone you don't know because what if they don't have a hand? They will think you are being cocky." - Mitch Hedberg *** Edited 6/14/2005 12:08:32 PM UTC by Word***

Down is the new up.

"Ms Seiga said the force of the ride was so strong it peeled Amelia's hands off the guard rail and bent her wrists back."

Guard rail? :-O

"She is now asking for the ride's height restriction to be raised to prevent it happening to other children."

Ummm, she was TWELVE...what *height restriction* are they going to put ON the ride that would prevent anyone under 12 from riding?

Jimvy, I'd bet your wrists are STRONG... :)

hmmm this one sounds a bit fishy, you would think we would have heard a similar incident by now on any other launch coasters. doesn't make any sense to me, but what do i know...

-- alan "... SEGA!!" jacyszyn

*blush* Who's been talking Bill?

This reminds me of the time my arms were violently ripped from my body on Thunderlooper ;)

-Jimvy!

Sounds like a scam to me.....

Fever I really enjoy the Simpsons. It's just a shame that I am starting to LOOK like Homer.

Apparently, the safest place for a 12-year old to be these days is Neverland.

She's a female, of course she'd be safe at Neverland.

John

^LMAO!

It does sound BS to me. I mean what the heck were her wrists made out of? Saltines? What a wuss.

-Tina

I'm not saying *anything* about Tina having strong wrists... :-X ;)

Well you know better than anyone else. ;-)

-Tina

If that were the case, someone would have probably put her wrists in their chowder by now.

Down is the new up.

So Tina, should we be calling you coasterqueenRSI from now on?

-Jimvy! ;)

Saltines..... LOL! ;)

The Flying Turns makes all the right people wet - Gonch

amazing....yet sounds susupicous....

rollergator said:

"She is now asking for the ride's height restriction to be raised to prevent it happening to other children."

You'll have to submit an affadavit verifying that you take steroids in order to be let on the ride.

coasterqueenTRN said:
I mean what the heck were her wrists made out of? Saltines? What a wuss. -Tina

So even if the height requirement is not enough to protect someone, or even an age requirement, maybe a strong wrist test is needed here (stop smiling boys ). I was thinking if you got more than 2 inches of slack in a wrist restraint, you can't ride :)