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Cedar Point, Six Flags, Kings Island, Disney, etc.... (official thread)

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Daudi Bamuwamye lost consciousness Monday aboard "Mission: Space" which spins riders in a giant centrifuge that subjects them to twice the normal force of gravity. The boy's mother carried him off the ride, and paramedics and a theme park worker tried to revive him, but he died at a hospital. An autopsy Tuesday showed no trauma so further tests will be conducted and a cause of death may not be known for several weeks, said Sheri Blanton, a spokeswoman for the Medical Examiner's Office in Orlando.

The sheriff's office said the boy met the minimum 44-inch height requirement for the ride.

The $100 million ride, one of Disney World's most popular, was closed after the death but reopened Tuesday after company engineers concluded that it was operating normally.

Disney officials said in a statement that they were "providing support to the family and are doing everything we can to help them during this difficult time." No changes were made to the ride or in who is permitted to ride it.

"We believe the ride is safe in its current configuration," Disney spokeswoman Jacquee Polak said. More than 8.6 million visitors have gone on "Mission: Space" since 2003, Polak said.

The ride recreates a rocket launch and a trip to Mars. A clock counts down before a simulated blastoff that includes smoke and flame and the sound of roaring rocket engines. The G-forces twist and distort riders' faces.

An audio recording and a video warn of the risks. Signs advise pregnant women not to go on the ride. Motion sickness bags are offered to riders. One warning sign posted last year read: "For safety you should be in good health, and free from high blood pressure, heart, back or neck problems, motion sickness or other conditions that can be aggravated by this adventure."

Since the attraction opened in 2003, seven people have been taken to the hospital for chest pains, fainting or nausea. That is the most hospital visits for a single ride since Florida's major theme parks agreed in 2001 to report any serious incidents to the state. The most recent case was last summer, when a 40-year-old woman was taken to a hospital after fainting.

"Two Gs is not that big a deal," said Houston-based theme park consultant Randy King, a former safety director at Six Flags, which operates 30 amusement parks.

The boy from Sellersville, Pa., was on the ride with his mother and a sister. During the ride, the mother noticed that Daudi's body was rigid and his legs were stretched straight out. She told detectives that she thought he was frightened, so she took his hand. When the ride was over, he had gone limp.

One other death was reported at Disney World this year. A 77-year-old woman who was in poor health from diabetes and several ministrokes died in February after going on the Pirates of the Caribbean ride. A medical examiner's report said her death "was not unexpected."

Florida's major theme parks not directly regulated by the state, and instead have their own inspectors.
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Currently being an engineering student at tOSU I know about the severity of these incidents and the code of ethics engineers are held to. Assuming the engineer's comments are true (Not buttered up by some marketing department) and the ride is operating normally, I think people and especially parents need to be a little more cautious before riding or letting their child ride such an attraction. The warnings are posted there for a reason. Just because the ride is at Walt Disney World doesn't mean it is safe for everyone to ride. Don't get me wrong I feel terrible for the boy and his family, I just feel people need to be a little more careful before allowing 2 G's of force due to spinning to be exerted on themself. Although 2 G's is not a very large amount, the spinning motion can make it seem worse.
 
So 8,599,993 people had fun, and 7 people didn't.

I feel terrible for the boy's family, but to blame it solely on the ride is ridiculous.
I know there is already a Massachusetts Democrat in congress proposing theme Parks to be Federally regulated.
 
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So 8,599,993 people had fun, and 7 people didn't.

I feel terrible for the boy's family, but to blame it solely on the ride is ridiculous.
I know there is already a Massachusetts Democrat in congress proposing theme Parks to be Federally regulated.
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I don't see it mentioned in this article, but I think I saw it yesterday that all of the those 7 patients taken for chest pain, had nothing wrong with them.
 
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About two years ago I went on the ride... worst ride ever!!!

I tend to handle those types of rides well... this one was horible!

I didn't notice it but there were dozens or folks messed up outside of the enterance (we were in a hurry to get in line... We frankly didn't spend time looking at folks sitting on the benches).

The ride makes you dizzy and will give you motion sickness.

My wife litterally turn white and puked for hours after the ride... she couldn't walk straight. I felt dizzy (never felt that way on a ride in my life).

Disney has folks standing near the exit asking if you are ok... about half couldn't walk straight (not kidding... HALF were messed up to the point they couldn't walk straight)... Many others were like me. They didn't feel good.

We left a hour after that ride (she was too sick to do anything but sit in the bathroom and puke). As we left a park clean up guy (the guys that walk around and pick up trash with those tongs) asked if we rode on Mission Space. He noticed she was sick and immediatly knew it was mission space. The spent a bunch of money on the ride and are too stuborn to shut it down. At a min. they need to tone it down.

The didn't have all those warnings when we went on the ride. They didn't have barf bags either... guess they've finally figured out the ride does nothing but make people sick...
 
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I rode this ride two years ago and it messed me up pretty bad. I felt like I was gonna hurl but somehow kept it down. The areas you walk through before you actually get on the ride is really neat. I heard that if you look straight ahead at the little monitors you should be ok. I'll never ride it again though.
 
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1. Terrible tragedy ! My heart goes out to the family!
2. The local paper said the boy was 4 years old but was 44 inches tall ??
3. My twins went on it and thought it was no big deal. I stayed away as I do not handle spinning rides well at all.
 
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The Associated Press: SC teen struck, killed by Six Flags coaster in Ga.


AUSTELL, Ga. (AP) — A teenager was decapitated by a roller coaster after he hopped a pair of fences and entered a restricted area Saturday at Six Flags Over Georgia, authorities said.
Six Flags officials are uncertain why the unidentified 17-year-old from Columbia, S.C. scaled two six-foot fences and passed signs that said the restricted area was both off-limits and dangerous to visitors, spokeswoman Hela Sheth said in a news release.
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This is why there are rules dumbass.
 
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