Hello I'm Rich Brown and this is my personal website and blog. I'm just your simple, average, down to earth, professional, out gay man and aspiring circuit boy, living in Phoenix, Arizona with a few things to say while trying to find my place among all the scary, conservative, religious nuts in this sick and twisted world.
Tuesday, June 26, 2007
This Is Why I Don't Like Amusement Park Rides ...
The headlines read ...
Six Flags closes ride after freak accident in Kentucky Teen girl's feet sliced off while riding roller coaster in Louisville ______________________________ headline & excerpt from The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Parks close thrill rides after girl loses legs Six Flags and another company shut down eight more thrill rides Friday around the country after a teenage girl had her feet chopped off at the ankle on a Superman Tower of Power. ______________________________ headline & excerpt from USA Today
So call me a coward but after hearing about things like this it just reaffirms my fears to why I don't like amusement parks and refuse to go on most amusement park rides. I will gladly always offer to be the "purse holder" and sit at the bar below while all my friends go on these stupid rides because in the end, I happen to like my feet. I read about episodes like this happening and it just triggers my biggest fear over going on these rides.
I read a comment from a Six Flags spokesman who said "Millions of people have safely ridden this ride in our parks" Well it certainly may have been a one in a million, freak accident, but tell that to the girl who just had her feet sliced off as I'm sure she's going to feel differently. Sad, very sad.
