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    this is a very interesting thread.
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    This article has a video as well but I can't get it to work on the device I'm using so I'm not sure what's on it -

    http://www.nbcdfw.com/investigations...216849431.html

    Woman Describes Roller Coaster Struggle Week Before Fatal Fall
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    Self-described "big woman" says she got off Six Flags Over Texas roller coaster after attendants had trouble securing her lap bar


    DeannaDewberry, NBC 5 Investigates Consumer Unit

    A North Texas woman says she refused to ride a Six Flags Over Texas roller because of the lap restraint system one week before another woman fell from the ride to her death


    Safety of Amusement Park Rides

    INVESTIGATIONS Lap Bar Struggle a Week Before Fatal...

    By Deanna Dewberry | Thursday, Jul 25, 2013 | Updated 12:20 AM CDT


    A North Texas woman says she refused to ride a Six Flags Over Texas roller because of the lap restraint system one week before another woman fell from the ride to her death.

    Lori Tate, a Parker County mother who describes herself as a big woman, said she chose to get off the Texas Giant before the ride started because she felt uncomfortable with the lap restraint system.

    "I couldn't breathe," she said.

    Tate told the NBC 5 Investigates Consumer Unit that the ride attendants kept trying to secure her restraint but she didn't feel safe.

    "They kept on (saying), 'Suck in, suck in.' And I can't suck in anymore," she said. "And they were like, 'Well, it'll be OK.' And I said, 'Nope, and let me off.'"

    Tate visited the Arlington amusement park with her two daughters, Kadi, 7 and Hail, 12, and one of Hali's friends exactly one week before the fatal accident that killed Rosa Ayala-Gaona.

    According to the Tarrant County Medical Examiner's Office, Ayala-Gaona, a 52-year-old Dallas resident, was ejected from her third-row seat on the Texas Giant and fell approximately 75 feet. An autopsy revealed she died from multiple traumatic injuries from the fall.

    Tate said she wondered if weight could have been a factor after hearing about the tragedy, reading witness accounts of what happened and knowing about her own trouble with the restraint on the roller coaster.

    The NBC 5 Investigates Consumer Unit combed Six Flag Over Texas' website. While there are height restrictions for the Texas Giant, NBC 5 could find no weight restrictions. A Six Flags representative would not respond to questions about weight restrictions.

    Mark Goodson, a forensic engineer with Goodson Engineering who has testified against Six Flags in a past injury accident lawsuit, said rides are not designed for everybody.

    "There will be certain sizes of people who just cannot fit in a ride," he said. "It is not feasible to design a ride that can handle every person."

    Ken Martin, an amusement park ride and safety specialist who has testified before and against amusement parks, agrees. He saw photos of the victim and believes weight was a contributing factor.

    "When you come down that hill and you feel your bottom parts, you know, come off that seat, well, that's your negative-g forces at work right there," he said.

    G-force is the force of gravity or acceleration on the body. Negative g-force is what roller coaster riders feel as they go down a hill.

    "Those forces are part of the ride, part of the thrill, part of taking you to the edge and, hopefully, bringing you back safely," Martin said.

    Martin said he is not familiar with the exact g-forces the Texas Giant exerts. But based on his experience, the g-force, depending on how strong, essentially multiplies a person's weight, putting pressure on the restraint, he said. For example, if someone weighing 300 pounds was on a steep drop with a negative 3G, it could put as much as 900 pounds of pressure on the lap-bar restraint.

    But Martin doesn't believe weight was the only factor in the fatal accident. Based on his previous cases, many things likely went horribly wrong, causing the Dallas mother to fall to her death, he said.

    Martin said most rides are designed for an adult who weighs 180 pounds.

    The International Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions told NBC 5, "Restraint design is typically based upon a 95 percentile physical profile to comfortably accommodate the vast majority of a ride's population segment."

    Tate said she doesn't think she fits into that 95 percent.

    "I'm too big for this ride," she said. "I can't do it. Something in my head said get off."

    The IAAPA, the largest international trade association for fixed amusement parks, said amusement parks are overwhelmingly safe. The likelihood of sustaining at a permanent amusement park ride in the United States an injury serious enough to require overnight hospitalization or treatment is one in 24 million, the association said. The chance of being fatally injured on an amusement ride is one in 750 million.

    According to injury reports filed by Six Flags Over Texas with the Texas Department of Insurance, there have been 14 injuries on the Texas Giant between April 2008 and April 2013. Most were minor and were caused by the ride jostling the passenger.

    Texas is one of at least 17 states that does not have a state agency responsible for inspecting amusement park rides, according to a survey by NBC News. Texas also has no law granting the state power to investigate in the event of an accident.

    Instead, Six Flags is conducting its own investigation into last week's fatality.

    Tate said she's relieved she decided not to ride the Texas Giant.

    "I could have been that woman," she said

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    Quote Originally Posted by blighted star View Post
    This article has a video as well but I can't get it to work on the device I'm using so I'm not sure what's on it -

    http://www.nbcdfw.com/investigations...216849431.html

    Woman Describes Roller Coaster Struggle Week Before Fatal Fall
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    Self-described "big woman" says she got off Six Flags Over Texas roller coaster after attendants had trouble securing her lap bar
    Someone wants their 15 minutes of fame/shame
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    Quick question- does every seat have it's own lap bar? Or is it one bar per row?

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    if i remember, each had its own.
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    OK, that makes more sense. I was wondering how everyone else in her row didn't fall out as well.

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    I thought it was one per row... but I haven't been in 20 years.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Fleta View Post
    I thought it was one per row... but I haven't been in 20 years.
    If you look at the video at about 3 minutes, it looks like each person has their own lap bar.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ron_NYC View Post




    This totally puts my mind at ease knowing my baby girl is mixed in with some of these idiots. I am just praying that she doesn't get deployed with them once she is finished with her MOS. I already don't sleep worth a shit now.


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    Quote Originally Posted by hamdinger125 View Post
    OK, that makes more sense. I was wondering how everyone else in her row didn't fall out as well.
    2 seats in a row, each with its own lap bar. I don't think anyone would have been able to fit in the seat next to her. They're cramped even with two average sized people.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Morbid_much View Post
    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.

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    this nitro, the turns im talking about are at 1:45.

    what is missing from this ride is that on the approach to the first drop, they used to have signs that said, you are now higher than the statue of liberty, then the Eiffel Tower, then Niagra Falls, then Empire State Building. It was hilarious, i read every sign and cried how i didnt want to be higher than any of those things.

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    I WANT TO RIDE THAT!!!!! ^^^^

    I'm not sure if I had already posted these videos, but I'm not going through the thread again to look.

    The Texas Giant was my favorite at Six Flags. The Titan was awesome too -




    This one is awesome, too. You are sitting on seats that are hanging from the glider. You can swing you legs and there are a lot of upside-down flips. So much fun - The Batman


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    Quote Originally Posted by blighted star View Post

    A North Texas woman says she refused to ride a Six Flags Over Texas roller because of the lap restraint system one week before another woman fell from the ride to her death.

    Lori Tate, a Parker County mother who describes herself as a big woman, said she chose to get off the Texas Giant before the ride started because she felt uncomfortable with the lap restraint system.
    I describe myself as a 'big man.' The rest of the world just calls me fat.

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    Beli, the one you posted that is "the batman" is exactly our "Batman the ride" - thats the one where I described that the overweight woman was being pushed into the ride by 3 workers. She ended up getting off.

    I found out today that Great Adventure is getting rid of an iconic roller coaster, Rolling Thunder, to make space for Zumanjaro - the worlds highest drop ride.
    watch the video at the link: http://www.app.com/article/20130829/...lags-Zumanjaro
    im not huge into drop rides.
    but i'll ride kingda ka all day.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ZoMyGoddess! View Post
    Beli, the one you posted that is "the batman" is exactly our "Batman the ride" - thats the one where I described that the overweight woman was being pushed into the ride by 3 workers. She ended up getting off.

    I found out today that Great Adventure is getting rid of an iconic roller coaster, Rolling Thunder, to make space for Zumanjaro - the worlds highest drop ride.
    watch the video at the link: http://www.app.com/article/20130829/...lags-Zumanjaro
    im not huge into drop rides.
    but i'll ride kingda ka all day.
    OMG! That's going to be amazeballs!


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    Quote Originally Posted by Shins View Post
    I heard that no one is allowed to be pronounced dead at Disney World, so they can say no deaths have ever happened at Disney World.

    Someone validate or debunk that for me.
    There's been 4-5 deaths at DW and more than that at DL.
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    So I was talking about this article with my parents today and they legit go mad at me for going on roller coasters and swore that i go on roller coasters to "please others".

    um. No. I felt like i was 10.

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    http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/Fam...223224151.html
    Six Flags Over Texas is reopening the Texas Giant this weekend with some additional safety measures, nearly two months after a 52-year-old woman fell to her death while riding the rollercoaster.


    Six Flags? announcement comes on the heels of a lawsuit filed earlier Tuesday by Rosa Esparza?s family, which alleged the park ignored dangers and is seeking at least $1,000,000 in damages.
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