Rosa Ayala-Goana (52) died after falling from the Texas Giant roller coaster

[Trahnse]

Thanks NQ for changing the title!

ETA: rideaccidents.com makes me never want to get on an amusement park ride again

My Dad hated fair time because of the rides. He was a mechanic by trade and did not trust those rides considering they're taken down and put back up so often. According to him the carnies were a bunch of clueless felons that wouldn't know if a bolt was missing. Jeez, I miss that man!

I can't imagine the fear Rosa must have endured the last few minutes of her life. Awful :(

[Ron_NYC]

My Dad hated fair time because of the rides. He was a mechanic by trade and did not trust those rides considering they're taken down and put back up so often. According to him the carnies were a bunch of clueless felons that wouldn't know if a bolt was missing. Jeez, I miss that man!

I can't imagine the fear Rosa must have endured the last few seconds of her life. Awful :(

Fixed?

And I feel the exact same as your father, and I don't even know about those things.

[holly]

My Dad hated fair time because of the rides. He was a mechanic by trade and did not trust those rides considering they're taken down and put back up so often. According to him the carnies were a bunch of clueless felons that wouldn't know if a bolt was missing. Jeez, I miss that man!

I can't imagine the fear Rosa must have endured the last few minutes of her life. Awful :(

My dad was like that too and I still refuse to ride carnival/ fair rides. Big amusement parks though - I'm all over that.

[beli]

My dad was like that too and I still refuse to ride carnival/ fair rides. Big amusement parks though - I'm all over that.

Yeah, I would much rather get on a ride in a amusement park than a carnival ride.

[blighted star]

Uggh sorry guys. Posting is a MESS for me just now. I keep getting thrown out & it seems to decide to post everytime it happens.

Anyway, fatal beaver attack, yes. It should be in the last few pgs of the mixed topic weird & bizarre 2 thread (I think, or see if it's still in my "view posts" pages)
Or click this link & scroll down til you hit Belarus beaver (be sure & watch the 2nd one too)

http://mydeathspace.com/vb/showthrea...t=#post3465611

[songbirdsong]

Poor Rosa. Surely the park won't pin this on her, right? They let her on, regardless of her weight. Fuck.

I can't imagine what it would be like to be the ride operator on that one. Probably 16 or something. It's awful for everyone.

[queenaevadamthng]

Fatal beaver attack?

[ImBatman!]

This woman endured one of my worst fears! My dad designs coasters and no matter how safe he says they are I will never, ever, ever get on one!! Nor a log ride for that matter!!

[blighted star]

Snipped an accidental quote

& a question for anyone hearing the media reports, I'm not getting the tv/radio stuff some of you are getting, but did the park spokespeople actually imply/say she wasn't conscious when she fell? Because the very first witness quoted back on pg 1seemed to be saying she screamed? Or was that mis-reported/discredited?

& Batz, Ron & everyone else who says no way, I'm with you on the subject of rides. My youngest kid agrees & like her mum, could get sick on the cup & saucer, the older 2 seem to be like the rest of the world & will ride anything fast (with a gleam in their eyes). It makes for high drama when the carnival comes to town for their beach holiday every summer.

I think this is THE ride - so you can see how hi-tech our carnival is. They've had a log ride & preschooler rollercoaster the last few years. My middle child is usually front row centre of the log, smiling like a demon & looking positively psychotic with excitement . I think they have a good safety record, but I still don't like it. Not one bit.

[Morbid_much]

I had the restaint come loose on a carnival ride once when I was a kid.
This thing:


Don't remember much of it, just my brother pulling the bar back against us and telling me to hold on to the cart. I think I remember we had to ride out the whole thing because they didn't notice but I'm not sure about that. It was scary though.

I hope for Rosa's sake that everything happenend so fast that she didn't really have time to think.

[ZoMyGoddess!]

I had the restaint come loose on a carnival ride once when I was a kid.
This thing:


Don't remember much of it, just my brother pulling the bar back against us and telling me to hold on to the cart. I think I remember we had to ride out the whole thing because they didn't notice but I'm not sure about that. It was scary though.

I hope for Rosa's sake that everything happenend so fast that she didn't really have time to think.

LOL this ride, at six flags great adventure, was called the spider. I was the biggest fucking puss when it came to getting on rides when i was little and FLIPPED the fuck out on this ride. I slipped under the harness and went under my moms legs. I was 8. my mom FLIPPED the fuck out on me, i could have fallen out, I was screaming for someone to stop the ride. My mom told me NEVER EVER EVER go on any scary rides ever. lol

Ok so that lasted until college, now i am one of an even crew, so i was forced to go on a roller coaster and i enjoyed it. so now, im a fan.

But i experienced almost the opposite - so i was clicked so tightly into a ride, i almost passed out. I love great adventure's NITRO, it is a roller coaster that does not go upside down so it only has a lap restraint that is diamond shaped with handles to hold on to. Well the last time i was on it, the restraint was pushed so tightly into my lap, that at the point that that roller coaster goes around in 3 circles, my blood could not go from my lower body to my brain. I blacked the fuck out. ONLY when the roller coaster went up and down, and into the discharge area, is when, i can only assume, the blood came back and woke my ass up.

I was so tightly secured into my seat, the blood didnt circulate.

[animosity]

i think y'all are overreacting about the roller coasters. you're much more likely to die in a car accident one of the million times you drive down the street to your local grocery than you are dying in a roller coaster accident during one a handful of times you ride..

[ImBatman!]

i think y'all are overreacting about the roller coasters. you're much more likely to die in a car accident one of the million times you drive down the street to your local grocery than you are dying in a roller coaster accident during one a handful of times you ride..

This is true but it does not do anything to lessen my fear of flying out of a roller coaster! Which at one time I might have called an irrational fear, today in this moment, not so much.

[Shins]

i think y'all are overreacting about the roller coasters. you're much more likely to die in a car accident one of the million times you drive down the street to your local grocery than you are dying in a roller coaster accident during one a handful of times you ride..

It's just freaky that the one nightmare that I've carried with me all my life, actually happened to a person. It just further solidifies a deep rooted fear.

I'm not a huge fan of anything totally out of the norm. Sky diving? Fuck that. That's like asking to die in my mind. I wasn't born with wings, I wasn't made to fly.

Getting strapped in a tin can with a flimsy bar (old school roller coasters), and flying down a hill on a narrow metal track at 80 miles an hour? I'm straight.

[M Joy]

It's just freaky that the one nightmare that I've carried with me all my life, actually happened to a person. It just further solidifies a deep rooted fear.

I'm not a huge fan of anything totally out of the norm. Sky diving? Fuck that. That's like asking to die in my mind. I wasn't born with wings, I wasn't made to fly.

Getting strapped in a tin can with a flimsy bar (old school roller coasters), and flying down a hill on a narrow metal track at 80 miles an hour? I'm straight.

I don't blame you. I can't believe I rode all the rides I've ridden at 6 Flags!

[Ron_NYC]

i think y'all are overreacting about the roller coasters. you're much more likely to die in a car accident one of the million times you drive down the street to your local grocery than you are dying in a roller coaster accident during one a handful of times you ride..

I don't drive. And fuck rollercoasters.

[animosity]

i have a terrifying fear that i'm going to be decapitated in a car accident. it's my worst nightmare. it will happen when something unsecured flies off the back of a truck on a freeway or something. i'm always side-eyeing loads of shit as i pass. that is why i like taking buses... there's a greater chance it will happen to someone else if i'm in a big group.

i feel that way about roller coasters. chances are it's going to happen to one of the other 20 people on the ride with me!

[Shins]

i have a terrifying fear that i'm going to be decapitated in a car accident. it's my worst nightmare. it will happen when something unsecured flies off the back of a truck on a freeway or something. i'm always side-eyeing loads of shit as i pass. that is why i like taking buses... there's a greater chance it will happen to someone else if i'm in a big group.

i feel that way about roller coasters. chances are it's going to happen to one of the other 20 people on the ride with me!

I'm with you on that fear as well. I've been in a few choice moments on the road where I thanked my lucky stars that I made it out unscathed.. I've had to dodge falling lumber from a hauler, I've hit ice patches next to semi trucks, dodged accidents that happened in front of me... you name it. I thank every day I make it home safe and do not take driving for granted. I like it more though, because I'm in control.

I feel like if something were to happen on a rollercoaster, it would happen to everyone. I also have a fear of being puked on, and I feel like that would happen eventually on one of those.

[ImBatman!]

I'm with you on that fear as well. I've been in a few choice moments on the road where I thanked my lucky stars that I made it out unscathed.. I've had to dodge falling lumber from a hauler, I've hit ice patches next to semi trucks, dodged accidents that happened in front of me... you name it. I thank every day I make it home safe and do not take driving for granted. I like it more though, because I'm in control.

I feel like if something were to happen on a rollercoaster, it would happen to everyone. I also have a fear of being puked on, and I feel like that would happen eventually on one of those.

In this particular case though it did not happen to everyone!

[Shins]

In this particular case though it did not happen to everyone!

I know. I just feel that way.

[animosity]

I'm with you on that fear as well. I've been in a few choice moments on the road where I thanked my lucky stars that I made it out unscathed.. I've had to dodge falling lumber from a hauler, I've hit ice patches next to semi trucks, dodged accidents that happened in front of me... you name it. I thank every day I make it home safe and do not take driving for granted. I like it more though, because I'm in control.

I feel like if something were to happen on a rollercoaster, it would happen to everyone. I also have a fear of being puked on, and I feel like that would happen eventually on one of those.

i cannot remember ever hearing of a coaster car or train completely coming off the tracks and killing a bunch of people. i've heard of fabios being hit in the face with birds, people falling out, feet cut off, decapitations (i think - did that happen on space mountain?), but always individual deaths.

fear of being puked on is more plausible and imo more reasonable.

[Nancy Drew]

omg, totally scared of being puked on.

I really think roller coasters are designed for "medium-size" people. If I wasn't one, I think I'd be terrified to ride them.

[Shins]

omg, totally scared of being puked on.

I really think roller coasters are designed for "medium-size" people. If I wasn't one, I think I'd be terrified to ride them.

Because you know it's not gonna be the watery bile puke.

It's gonna be the hotdog/elephantear/cottoncandy/turkeyleg/mountaindewslushie puke.



You're welcome for the mental image.

[Nancy Drew]

Because you know it's not gonna be the watery bile puke.

It's gonna be the hotdog/elephantear/cottoncandy/turkeyleg/mountaindewslushie puke.



You're welcome for the mental image.

Oh totally. The puke that really smells like puke. And it's not like you can wash that shit off ALL DAY.

Also, I love that you call them elephant ears, too. Must be a Michigan thing. Everyone here looks at me like I'm nuts when I say it (which admittedly isn't too often lol).

[animosity]

Because you know it's not gonna be the watery bile puke.

It's gonna be the hotdog/elephantear/cottoncandy/turkeyleg/mountaindewslushie puke.



You're welcome for the mental image.

You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to Shins again. i'm totally going to an amusement park pretty soon. now i am going to have this stuck in my head the whole time.

Oh totally. The puke that really smells like puke. And it's not like you can wash that shit off ALL DAY.

Also, I love that you call them elephant ears, too. Must be a Michigan thing. Everyone here looks at me like I'm nuts when I say it (which admittedly isn't too often lol).

yeah, uh... what's an elephant ear?