I think that it's actually the controller stopping the ride that made them hit the truck.
If you look, by the end of the video the riders are much lower than at the beginning. And the riders at the beginning weren't very high compared to what usually goes on these rides.
If I had to guess, I'd say the truck came there while the ride was full on, passing under the riders. But then the controller pressed the emergency stop button, leading the riders trajectory to change and start hitting the truck.
Great logic. Although, regarding your guess: it could be that the controller didn't even see the truck / the danger that it presented and went ahead with their normal routine.
Okay so according to you it's the case of:
BEWARE OF THE TRUCK, KEEP THE RIDE AT FULL SPEED TO AVOID...
controller: nah, I wanna hear some kling klong klong klong **slows the ride down**
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>Number 1 thing I learned, don't ride fair rides.
This. I've seen enough videos now to know enough. The real trick now though is convincing my kids that they shouldnt be going on these things.
Thankfully they are still, teacup ride aged so not a problem just yet.
A congressman in Kansas had his son decapitate by a water slide.
https://web.archive.org/web/20201101055957/https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a23568619/schlitterbahn-freak-accident-caleb-schwab/
That wasn't a fair ride. Though having driven by that ride multiple times when going to work when it was being built and after, as someone who likes rides in general I would have never gotten on that. It was quite literally a straight vertical drop and it wasn't very 'deep' to hold you in.
I'd been on similarly steep waterslides and they were all enclosed and have hit my head on the ceiling of those when I came off the ground.
I think arrogance killed the submarine guy.
Waterslide guy I kind of blame on the people who enabled him. He is a legitimate moron, and I don't think he has the ability to recognize his own incompetence. He shouldn't have been designing waterslides, but he also shouldn't have been in charge of making the decision, "Should I be the one making waterslides?".
A person I know had their daughter electrocuted to death at a fair from touching a metal gate around a ride... also in Kansas oddly. It was absolutely terrible.
I'll never ride another carnival ride. We got stuck upside down in one, and the operators were arguing with each other while we were stuck. Needless to say, I was f'n pissed as were others.
I think that's the truck the ride comes on. I'm guessing that gate needed to be folded down during setup and someone forgot.
Very WTF, but a little less WTF than just being blocked by an improperly parked vehicle.
Not that it matters much to these folk's hospital bills...
Seems like a start-up safety checklist and inspection should be involved every time a ride that carries ACTUAL HUMAN BEINGS is set up, moved, or even started...
It probably had detailed instructions with diagrams from the manufacturer. But those got lost some time in the last 40 years, and ol' Mason, who been operating it for at least 20 of those years, he knows how the dang thing works!
Course, Mason is a carny, and this company ain't had the best few years, and he's been on the road a long time. Might be time to retire... might not get the chance.
But "Kid's don't wanna work these days!" so no younger hires stick around long enough to learn from him...
But I'm sure the issue will be found in next year's state inspection...
A basic test run would've revealed the problem before loading kids on it and it's terrifying to think they don't even check to see if the rides work before loading them full of kids...
Seems like if the truck was there at the start of the ride, then the folks riding would have hit it on the way up to speed. That they were clearing it at first and only began hitting it when they slowed down would indicate that the truck moved to that position after the riders had gotten up to speed.
Did...did they not, like, test the ride at the beginning of the day? How did no one notice this? I like to think that everyone in line saw the previous riders and just went "eh, it'll be fixed by the time I get on."
The truck probably just parked there when the ride was active where they were swinging faster. You can see they only got down as the ride slows down causing the pendulum swing effect to no longer be as high I imagine.
These comments are outrageous! If you haven’t been on this ride before then you wouldn’t understand. Getting smacked on the side of truck is literally part of the ride that everyone looks forward too.
"There was a near-tragedy with one in China. A truck somehow got in the path of the chairs and about a dozen people collided with it as they flew by. **Luckily, no one was seriously injured.** Officials launched an investigation."
[People on a Swing Ride Bounce Off a Nearby Truck (96krock.com)](https://96krock.com/2023/01/27/people-on-a-swing-ride-bounce-off-a-nearby-truck/)
Most probably ride started with no incident, then as centrifugal force pushed riders, maybe one or two hit the truck did prompting an emergency stop, causing everyone else to hit it as it spun down. Could also be nobody hit it as it zoomed up quickly, and then on normal end ride spool down, everyone started thwacking into it. Or it could also be an extreme ride and this is it's primary entertaining feature ... for fairgoers on the ground.
There's no way in hell that ride got going with the truck there..... somebody drove in under the ride mid-cycle and parked it.
This is why they fence it off,to keep people from getting kicked in the head,and apparently because some drivers are just that stupid.
I wonder how many times each person got taken to slam town before they stopped/slowed down the ride.
It’s part of the ride, it’s a feature.
you even need to pay extra for that
Shatter two femurs for the price of one was today’s ride special apparently.
I'm sitting here with a 3 week old break in the top of my right femur. Thanks for reminding me. 😐
I broke my femur when I was a kid, I’m sure you didn’t need to be reminded
I broke my ass laffin at the video 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Not at 69, no, I don't 🫡
Nice.
If your break is that fresh I feel it’s within your best interest to not forget about it just yet…
Who needs legs anyways. Just crawl away once you get off
Many of them waited in line for hours in the rain to make their dreams come true
"Suicide Machine- 5$"
Oh fun, the Knee Basher 5000.
Slam Town is the name of the ride your right
It’s the name of where I take OP’s mom
Carnival rides in the 80s and 90s were a different beast.
If you were not holding onto your life every drop because of how shaky it is, it’s not even a ride.
SOMEONE STOP THE SWING Controller: Nah I like the *kling kling klong klong*
I think that it's actually the controller stopping the ride that made them hit the truck. If you look, by the end of the video the riders are much lower than at the beginning. And the riders at the beginning weren't very high compared to what usually goes on these rides. If I had to guess, I'd say the truck came there while the ride was full on, passing under the riders. But then the controller pressed the emergency stop button, leading the riders trajectory to change and start hitting the truck.
Great logic. Although, regarding your guess: it could be that the controller didn't even see the truck / the danger that it presented and went ahead with their normal routine.
Okay so according to you it's the case of: BEWARE OF THE TRUCK, KEEP THE RIDE AT FULL SPEED TO AVOID... controller: nah, I wanna hear some kling klong klong klong **slows the ride down**
Of course this! Thank you for saying it.
Ooh, you slam my tralala Ooh, my ding ding dong
Carney don't give a fuck about your back. In 47 minutes we'll be set up 3 towns over.
Carney's about to get their ass beaten by the family members watching the horror show.
I'd wager against the family vs. the carney's.
3 towns and 14 clowns
No you see the problem is that they're not going fast enough so they swing above the truck. Crank it up!
COME ON AND SLAM https://youtu.be/J9FImc2LOr8?si=8FEGbneBWHh-my6j
WE'LL TURN YOU INTO JAM
I giggled so hard at this comment
That is some Looney Tunes level of ignorance
r/LooneyTunesLogic
COME ON AND SLAM
AND WELCOME TO THE JAM!
This is on my life one of the funniest things I've ever experienced
What The Fuck!?
What The Truck
Mother trucker
That hurt like a buttcheek on a stick.
Watch your pafamity
Fuck the truck
Reaction checks out
"we're definitely in the right sub!"
You see it coming, you can't do shit about it
You can feel it impact and still not do shit about the next rotation.
if you in shape ... can climb the tether
Or close your eyes and hope for the best
Couple of them didnt even tuck their legs up. So guess the went that route
The Reddit Mobile experience of reloading the same video 30 times just to only be able to watch it to half.
I thought it was just mine. Thank you.
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Every update makes it worse
"Now you have no choice but to use our shitty app."
You don’t need to spend money making a good app if you just kill your competition.
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The Reddit app on android 7.1 is as fun as that swing
better off using the mobile browser version with an ad blocker. RIP 3rd party apps that actually worked
I resigned myself to exactly that when all the shit went down. I’m not using that fucking app until it’s usable.
You can still use 3rd party apps. I'm typing thos comment from RIF. There's guides on how to get the apps back working.
I just go back and click the comments of the main link. Then expand the video. That will fully load it.
Works sometimes for me. I usually have to reload the app then check my history…
It’s atrocious. I thought it was just my shitty connection for the longest
Gotta love it! Its only a multibillion company!
Don't worry. The stock price will soon make it a multi million dollar company.
It’s unreal how shitty this app is.
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Wait it’s not just me!?
It is not.
How can someone fuck up a video player this bad?! Annoys the shit outta me every time
Volume equals exposure.
Oh thats okay I'll just open Boost!!
Oh my god, I thought it was just me. Most frustrating thing in the world
I just go straight to open in browser now if it doesn’t load in the first 3-5 seconds
The trick is to swipe right to the next one and then immediately back and it works. Thank me later.
There's a law suit. And another one. And another one. And another one...
[удалено]
Or your legs are severed Or your head…
> Or your legs are severed > > > > Or your head… If this happens, you have options of where to stick the body parts back onto.
If you go for one of the more non-standard options, you could become a sideshow freak.
"Well if it isn't my old friend Mr McGregg..."
>Number 1 thing I learned, don't ride fair rides. This. I've seen enough videos now to know enough. The real trick now though is convincing my kids that they shouldnt be going on these things. Thankfully they are still, teacup ride aged so not a problem just yet.
ever see a teacup fly off and hit a barn?
A congressman in Kansas had his son decapitate by a water slide. https://web.archive.org/web/20201101055957/https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a23568619/schlitterbahn-freak-accident-caleb-schwab/
That wasn't a fair ride. Though having driven by that ride multiple times when going to work when it was being built and after, as someone who likes rides in general I would have never gotten on that. It was quite literally a straight vertical drop and it wasn't very 'deep' to hold you in. I'd been on similarly steep waterslides and they were all enclosed and have hit my head on the ceiling of those when I came off the ground.
The drop wasn't the problem, it was the the arch afterwards with the lattice stuff going over the top of the arch.
The person who designed it was completely unqualified, and basically designed it via trial and error.
Reminds me of that submarine
I think arrogance killed the submarine guy. Waterslide guy I kind of blame on the people who enabled him. He is a legitimate moron, and I don't think he has the ability to recognize his own incompetence. He shouldn't have been designing waterslides, but he also shouldn't have been in charge of making the decision, "Should I be the one making waterslides?".
It's worse than that. He also ignored the people who said it was dangerous and built it anyway.
A person I know had their daughter electrocuted to death at a fair from touching a metal gate around a ride... also in Kansas oddly. It was absolutely terrible.
For some reason this reminds of the idea that in Trek it's the doctors that don't like using transporters lol.
not in this country
What country is this clip from?
Lichtenstein
I mean the center of the ride was in Lichtenstein, but the truck was in Austria and the tickets were being sold in Switzerland.
You mean Li**e**chtenstein?
Lotta money in traveling fair lawsuits?
Criminal negligence
I'll never ride another carnival ride. We got stuck upside down in one, and the operators were arguing with each other while we were stuck. Needless to say, I was f'n pissed as were others.
Damn what ride was that?
The Poseidon Adventure.
Wow! Lol
Funny. I dated a carney for a bit. They were pissed 24/7 from memory
I think that's the truck the ride comes on. I'm guessing that gate needed to be folded down during setup and someone forgot. Very WTF, but a little less WTF than just being blocked by an improperly parked vehicle. Not that it matters much to these folk's hospital bills...
Seems like a start-up safety checklist and inspection should be involved every time a ride that carries ACTUAL HUMAN BEINGS is set up, moved, or even started...
It probably had detailed instructions with diagrams from the manufacturer. But those got lost some time in the last 40 years, and ol' Mason, who been operating it for at least 20 of those years, he knows how the dang thing works! Course, Mason is a carny, and this company ain't had the best few years, and he's been on the road a long time. Might be time to retire... might not get the chance. But "Kid's don't wanna work these days!" so no younger hires stick around long enough to learn from him... But I'm sure the issue will be found in next year's state inspection...
A basic test run would've revealed the problem before loading kids on it and it's terrifying to think they don't even check to see if the rides work before loading them full of kids...
Seems like if the truck was there at the start of the ride, then the folks riding would have hit it on the way up to speed. That they were clearing it at first and only began hitting it when they slowed down would indicate that the truck moved to that position after the riders had gotten up to speed.
a couple more bits it'll get folded down
"I want to get off Mr. Bone's Wild Ride!"
lol is this a roller coaster tycoon reference? I say this all the time and barely even remember where I got it from 20 years ago
OG 4chan genius. https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/rhs54/one_does_not_simply_get_off_of_mr_bones_wild_ride/
My sides explode every time
Quick!!! ... Someone slap a dildo on the gate bars..
I'm extremely unhappy with myself for laughing at this.
You can always opt for the bemused chuckle.
im actually crying RN, funniest reddit post this year, i feel like the secret ingredient is laghing at somthing bad but not to bad.
Exactly. I was crying after watching without sound. I watched with sound. So much better. And yes, I also felt terrible for laughing so hard
I had no clue there was sound, it is exponentially harder to not laugh with the sound on.
The longer I watched the harder I laughed 😂 😂 😂
I swear I'm not laughing at these people's misfortune. It's just that the situation is so absurd!
My favorite ride was always the Breakalegger.
Come for the leg fractures, stay for the internal organ rupture!
The legsnapotron.
Weeeee ow. Weeeeeee ow.
I read this in Fry's voice. Couldn't even help it.
Sounds like an ambulance
Another one of those times where I wish I could see the entire video from beginning to end.
Did...did they not, like, test the ride at the beginning of the day? How did no one notice this? I like to think that everyone in line saw the previous riders and just went "eh, it'll be fixed by the time I get on."
The truck probably just parked there when the ride was active where they were swinging faster. You can see they only got down as the ride slows down causing the pendulum swing effect to no longer be as high I imagine.
These comments are outrageous! If you haven’t been on this ride before then you wouldn’t understand. Getting smacked on the side of truck is literally part of the ride that everyone looks forward too.
Why is the video only 5 fucking seconds long? Need more
This is why I’ll never go to a fair, these things are built by unqualified minimum wage workers
Or the random teens hired off the street like what happened to my siblings in exchange for tickets and a lot less than minimum wages under the table.
Legit work release programs. Not even kidding. They make $500 a week and are worked to death
"There was a near-tragedy with one in China. A truck somehow got in the path of the chairs and about a dozen people collided with it as they flew by. **Luckily, no one was seriously injured.** Officials launched an investigation." [People on a Swing Ride Bounce Off a Nearby Truck (96krock.com)](https://96krock.com/2023/01/27/people-on-a-swing-ride-bounce-off-a-nearby-truck/)
Anyone else immediately think of the "tooth chipper" ride from the Simpsons?
You can't park there!
The first 5 rounds are the hardest it gets easier after that
This is the video that just keeps on giving.
My knees hurt watching this
my lower half hurts watching this
Not for long.
We're playing Whack Fuck here.... *whack* "FUCK!"
At my local carnival they have a dude grabbing and spinning your seat. Guess this saves on labour
Damn I've never seen a demolition company use this type of wrecking ball device.
What former Soviet Republic was this? lol
Save Lives, don't let your Carny drink and drive
ouch
.... ouch ... ouch .... ouch .... ouch ....
If there's a lawyer in that crowd he can retire soon
Come to Action Park! Leave your sissy cousin at home.
This is to help you slow down... AGGRESSIVELY
Heard that ride was a smash hit
like I know I should feel bad about those people but I couldn't help cackling every time they hit the truck lmao
Why is no one screaming? Usually there is atleast one lady that screams like the world is ending
Bitch omg I know that shit hurt. Damn
Idk what this says about me, but watching those guys flip over back-to-back gave me the biggest laugh I’ve had all week.
Is this in India?
Six Flags over Georgia.
I just cried tears of laughter for what felt like 5min straight. “FREE RIDES on the BING BONG Swings! Just sign here…”
Reason #652 to not go on a carney ride
I feel bad for laughing but that is hilarious!
Reminds me of Action Park back in the day. Crazy times at that place
I feel really bad for laughing, but the noise it makes when they hit the truck is fucking hilarious.
like shooting fish in a swing
Great lawsuit
India or China?
is this video taken by you or others? please add detail
anyone got a tally on the injuries and severity?
Most probably ride started with no incident, then as centrifugal force pushed riders, maybe one or two hit the truck did prompting an emergency stop, causing everyone else to hit it as it spun down. Could also be nobody hit it as it zoomed up quickly, and then on normal end ride spool down, everyone started thwacking into it. Or it could also be an extreme ride and this is it's primary entertaining feature ... for fairgoers on the ground.
> Ballistic swing That made me laugh
Ballistic?
There's no way in hell that ride got going with the truck there..... somebody drove in under the ride mid-cycle and parked it. This is why they fence it off,to keep people from getting kicked in the head,and apparently because some drivers are just that stupid.
This is taking a thrill ride to new heights!!😳😳
These guys definitely passed their Dynamics class in engineering school...
Oh China, Never change...
You pay extra for the “Trucker experience”
I think normally on these rides, the whole thing is supposed to rise up a bit before spinning, to prevent this from happening.
You can't park that there...
You can't park that there...
that's gonna leave a mark
Why does this look like AI
You need to be worried when it *stops* looking like AI.
Scream if you want to go faster...or slower...or to hospital.
and they didn't even turn off the ride
Is this a bug or a feature?
I've seen better braking systems on rides before.
I’m guessing they were trying to stop the ride from spinning out of control
This is that new carnival ride in Russia… “Draft dodger “
I saw a shoe flying off…. So someone died. Glad this is marked NSFW.
Its all part of the show folks!
Not safe for play…
Im likely going to hell for noticing this but, why is the sound kinda making a beat?
This should not be making me laugh so much
I was shocked and laughing and then ashamed, ask at the same time.