You guys see the video of this idiot yet?

This guy is the reason people want to put so many restrictions on rides. This is a video of a kid standing up on a Gravitron carnival ride.

http://youtube.com/w/Gravitron-Disaster?v=slxhkUT2S40

wow, stupid!

Yeah, whats even more stupid is a ride op obviously let him do it.

Two wrongs don't make a right.

Chuck

Why is YouTube so effin' slow?!

I used to do that all the time.

oooops

What an idiot!

Lawl, check out the Disaster Transport vid under the Related Videos link. I wonder how they managed to pull that off...

-nesdude

Did the kid get hurt???

Looks like the operator was showing him how to do it. Operators have been known to walk the walls in those things.

I'm not endorsing the practice, I'm just sayin... :)

--Dave Althoff, Jr.

I think he broke the guys nose next to him

Like Dave said, There's no way that could have happend without the ops knowledge.

The RPM on that thing only varies slightly between being forceful enough to climb the walls, to being able to stand up. Slowing it or stopping it before something like that happened was entirely possible in this case and wasn't done because it was FUNNY.

Yep, Carney ops strike again.

Dumb.

The disaster vid was nice.

Hey, I'll be the first to admitt that as a kid, I would lay sideways on the walls of a rotor, Still see it done on Gravitrons.

The rules are there for a reason. Usually, but not always due to a incident thats happened. and ususally because one or more people wern't following the rules already made.

That ride don't care who you are, It's designed to do what it does safely, Only if its ridden properly to begin with.

I havn't been on a gravatron in I don't know how long. But when I was much younger, I remember turning myself upside down on it. I wouldn't do it now though.

That's nothing. I've seen people flip upside down, lay horizontal, and everything!

LOL! I have seen that before. I have never pulled those stunts off myself, though.

-Tina

The furthest I've ever gone in my Gravtron exploits was to sit up while the ride is going. It doesn't sound that difficult until you get in one and try it. Be careful when going back to the laying position though because you could smack the back of your head pretty hard.

I did the "lay sideways" thing at the Castle Park Gravitron when it was just me and my brothers on it. That never seemed dangerous and I assumed it was OK because the op allowed it. Of course, the op seemed to encourage this guy and we saw how that ended up.

I' be pretty pissed off if I was the guy next to him. *** Edited 2/3/2006 7:07:26 PM UTC by The Lorax***

I remember being on a gravitron as a kid, turning myself upside down (I actually think people do that quite regularly in Gravitrons, almost like it's part of the ride: To demonstrate to yourself that now the wall seems like the ground).
Standing up is acutally quite tempting in Gravitrons, may it be stupid or not.

I remember though that the ride op was making it go so fast that I was really afraid my brain would come out to my ears, or my eyeballs would come out of their sockets etc - everything that was wobbly in my face was sticking to the wall already.

I was in another one many years later and it wasn't so bad (at least, it didn't hurt as much)

How much freedom do ride ops have when they control the thing?

*** Edited 2/4/2006 9:49:49 AM UTC by superman***

Gravitron has two operating modes: "running" or "not running". Usually the operator can choose between those two states. When running, top speed is about 24 RPM, making the Gravitron one of the fastest, if not the fastest, circular rides on the midway*.

Actually sometimes the operator has even less control over the ride. There are documented cases of the motor control contactor welding itself closed during the ride cycle, at which point the operator can't stop the ride. :)

(I think most have had a shunt-trip device added so that the operator has an additional way to shut the ride down now)

--Dave Althoff, Jr.

* The ARM Quasar runs at 36 RPM, but the center on that one counter-rotates at 18 RPM, so it *really* only goes 18 RPM...