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My wife did not like me turning the teacup around and around, and encouraging the kids to help me. I reversed direction a couple of times too, so I'm sure that didn't help.
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to your stomach stay off the carousel. barfing will disappoint the kids.
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Police Investigating Teen's Death on Festival Ride
Monday, July 16, 2007 OSHKOSH, Wis — Police and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration were investigating Sunday why a teen fell from a festival ride and died. Elizabeth K. Mohl, 16, of Neenah, was killed Saturday afternoon after falling 40 to 50 feet from a ride called Air Glory. Winnebago County Deputy Coroner Chuck Hable said Sunday that a crane would hoist up a person or people in a sling, and at the top the person inside pulls a ripcord. That drops the person or people and they swing back and forth. But for some reason after the cord was pulled, she fell to the ground, he said. She died several hours later in surgery, Hable said. Police Sgt. Jim Jewell said Sunday that the department and OSHA were investigating. He wouldn't comment further but said it was too early to say if the matter would be considered criminal. The girl was attending Lifest, an annual Christian music festival that features rides and sports. Workers shut down the ride after the accident, which occurred about 4:45 p.m. A prayer service was held at 7 p.m. and the music festival resumed about 7:30 p.m. Air Glory makes "grown men scream like little girls," according to the Lifest Web site, which says the ride begins by launching two to three people almost 100 feet in the air. Witness Brian Childers of Kenosha said two people went up in the ride, and when they pulled the release he heard a snapping sound. One person fell and the other remained swinging in the ride, he told the Oshkosh Northwestern. An autopsy was scheduled for Monday, but Hable said Mohl likely died from the fall. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,289442,00.html |
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Air Glory indeed.
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This has been a big story around here lately... obviously.
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07-17-2007, 09:36 AM | #160 |
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Those type of rides appear to be everywhere right now and have always scared me that this could, and eventually would, happen.
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Okay, try to spin THAT one as the park's fault...
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I wonder how old he was?
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That is actually the 2nd time someone has been decapitated by that ride. I'm not blaming the park, because it wasn't their fault either time, but maybe now it's time to put up some huge ass signs in that area saying YOU CAN BE DECAPITATED IF YOU PROCEED.
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It's marked off limits. There is probably a pretty good reason why. Probably shouldn't have to spell it out.
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That's a dickish thing to say. He made a mistake that a lot of other teens would have made, so he deserves to die? I guess that's easy for you to say when you don't know the kid or his family. I'm sure if you were standing in front of the kid's mom, you wouldn't say something so ignorant.
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By the way, I'm not trying to pick on you, or call you a bad person, I just hate when people make statements like the one you did.
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The AJC article gives much more information, including the fact that he was returning to the park and decided not to go through the regular entrance and would have had to jump over two fences.
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A kid trying to grab someones feet on a moving ride that travels at a high enough speed to decapitate someone.. I don't see a lot of room for sympathy there. Its sad, the boy was dumb enough to try it and paid the consequences in spades. I feel much worse for the inevitable friend that tried to talk him out of it.
EDIT: If the boy was trying to retrieve something, you'd think he would have just asked one of the ride operators to get it for him.
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Point being? I'm sure he didn't know he was going to get decapitated when he went in there.
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"Deserves"? Eh. {shrug} But I can't say I'm all busted up over one less moron to do something moronic in the world. Quote:
I can't speak for Lathum, but push come to shove, I really can't imagine I'd have much problem telling the mother that the cause of death on her son's certificate should be listed as "Stupidity". I wouldn't go out of my way to tell her that but I wouldn't hesitate to do so if the situation arose & she wanted to make an issue of it.
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I never said he deserves to die so get your fucking story straight . I said I don't feel bad for him, he is old enough to know right from wrong. How fucking stupid do you have to be to ignore a sign, jump a fence, and leap at a moving roller coaster? Would you feel bad if he OD'd or killed himself drunk driving? of course I feel bad for his family but that doesn't deter from the fact that the kid did something amazingly stupid and I don't feel bad for him Last edited by Lathum : 06-28-2008 at 08:33 PM. |
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Edited because Lathum edited.
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i editied schmidty, and replied before the other post you made so sorry.
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Considering that he could have probably hurt someone on the ride and that he should have known better, I don't feel bad for him at all. Yeah it sucks for his family.
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So here's my question: If you die of lung cancer someday from smoking, should your certificate of death be listed as "Stupidity", since you did something that can also be considered doing "something moronic in the world"? I don't think so, but a lot of people could have that opinion. Point is: Every single one of us has done (or still does) something stupid in our lives. In your way of thinking, I guess if we accidentally (or slowly and deliberately) die from that stupidity, every one of us should have that label. That doesn't make us any better than that kid, it just makes us luckier.
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That's alright. I guess I don't word things so well at times, because I didn't mean what I said as a personal attack, but I can see someone taking it like that. Anyway, off to go bowling with my daughter. I'll make sure I don't stick my head in the ball return.
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It also makes us "people who didn't die while committing a crime" (albeit in this case most likely a misdemeanor). I'm sorry Schmidty, but once again we seem to have a case where parents failed to do an adequate job & their kid ends up dead. If they had managed to teach their kid it isn't okay to jump two fences when there's no legitimate reason for it then they aren't burying him this week.
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Come on Schmidty, you can't be serious here. The kid was doing something extremely stupid. If he hadn't been killed he could have caused serious injury to the person whose legs he was trying to grab. This makes it not only stupid but stupid with intent to injure (he was really stupid if he didn't think he would hurt the person if he succeeded in grabbing their legs).
It's not like he was pulling a harmless prank and got killed by something completely unexpected. What the hell did he think could happen trying that? I agree, darwinism at work. I do feel sorry for the family though but not for the kid himself. I really hope the friend referred to earlier was one who was saying "don't do it" and not one saying "go for it" and prodding him into it. If so that kid is living his own version of hell right now. |
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Feel free to "hope" on that point, but I wouldn't advise putting any money on it. This just seems like a classic example of the joke about the most common last words of a redneck being "Hey ya'll, watch this". And in those cases there usually aren't too many voices of reason around.
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They should have gone to Carowinds, its a shorter distance
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Getting decapitated by an amusement park ride is a tough way to go, but he brought it on himself so I don't feel bad for him either. He's 17 and should know better than that. He could have really injured someone on the ride and that would have been tragic.
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While I wouldn't say it to the mother, listing "stupidity" as the cause of death seems reasonable. I wouldn't invoke Darwin though because kids this age can be this stupid. Many of us probably have stories of things we did which, looking back, were probably stupid enough to get us killed. The tragedy of the situation doesn't make it any less stupid. Sadly not everyone gets off with a warning when they are dumb.
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Yep, definately culling the herd.
The sad part is the family will probably get millions in a settlement with the park. Now that sucks. You shouldn't hit the lotto just because you have an idiot in your family. |
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I'm pretty sure Six Flags Magic Mountain here in LA has signs that are pretty close to that for this exact ride. |
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WHA???? A lot of others would have made? |
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Ideally you shouldn't have to spell it out, but now two people have been killed by that ride in similar fashion. I'm sure Six Flags would like people to stop being killed by that ride, whether or not theyre stupid, so I'm saying extra warning signs would be a good idea.
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It's not just the signs, the kid scaled TWO six-foot high fences for the privilege of having his head lopped off. I wonder what the ride was like for the rest of the people in the coaster, assuming they saw what happened....They see this severed head, and still probably have to go through whatever spins and loops the ride had in front of it. Good times. Last edited by molson : 06-29-2008 at 11:32 AM. |
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I don't think extra signs would make any difference at all. If the kid is gonna go to the effort of jumping 2 fences how many extra signs are needed to deter him? |
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dola- jumping the fences into a rstricted area isn't even the stupid thing, at worst they get kicked out of the park for tresspassing.
It's jumping at a moving roller coaster that is idiotic. Notice how the other kid who jumped the fences is still alive |
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Point being, to be a Darwin Award Winner you don't have to know you are doing something stupid. You just do something stupid. Look, I feel sorry for his family but the gene pool didn't lose much here. If you're stupid enough to jump two restricted fences and approach a ride going 50 mph and coming at your head even if you survive, something is going to get you soon. It's natures way. He was the sick Gazelle this night.
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According to the article above the second death wasn't that similar. It was a park worker who was in the wrong restricted area. Any similarity wouldn't have been helped by a sign telling park visitors that they might be decapitated.
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